Asklemmy

43874 readers

1353 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

368

"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

523 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I'd rather hear about things that are actually happening.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Q" MIL?

[–] Birdie@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago

Yep. She believes it all.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quasi, I guess if you're not actually married?

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Q here is referring to their mother-in-law's belief in the QAnon conspiracy.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I just hoped for a better acronym.