Well, no. The originally German / Nazi tactic called Lügenpresse aka. “Lying Press” is more about just claiming that the press is lying – like how conservatives latched onto calling everything “fake news” after US Republicans and Trump started doing it after their bullshit was called out with that term.

The idea with the “firehose of falsehood”, like the page I linked to explains, is to saturate media with so much high volume and continuous bullshit that people start to doubt whether it’s even possible to know anything about objective reality in the first place. The point isn’t to proclaim that the media is lying, but to simply lie so much that people start to think that all media is just lies. The tactic originated in Russia and has been in use since Soviet times and the internet has allowed them to take it to a completely new level.

And yes, Nazi-controlled media was obviously also full of total fabrications, but that doesn’t mean that these two tactics are the same thing.

Known as the “firehose of falsehood”

They think they’ll be tortured because that’s what they do to others.

Well that’s… weird. Why on earth would they do that?

Assuming any of this is true, at any rate.

the only political group that supports Putin in Portugal are the communists.

I’m very much a leftist and this is just something I haven’t managed to wrap my mind around. How can anyone claim to be a leftist and support an extremist right wing dictator?

We’ve known about the dangers of overusing antibiotics for decades now, and it’s become obvious that this is yet another case where we won’t do near enough to combat a problem until it’s already much too late and practically disastrous

Surprising that Euronews is still running pro-Ukraine news considering it’s now owned by Orbánists

Looks like your Lemmy frontend / client turned the community mention into a link so it just took me to lemmy.world, but here’s one that’s not a link: !political_weirdos@lemmy.world

Truly a master strategist

It’s a great photo. Fucking terrifying to think that there could have been a 300kt boom at the end of each of those pretty lines

Why are drill sergeants so angry anyhow?

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That’s one of the most American things I have heard in a while

Can a bitch have some context, please

I’m somewhat partial to Mirv

Edit: they grow up so fast

Sour!

Well, at least the “hard radiation” part: Louis Slotin, one of the victims of the demon core, reported a sour taste when the screwdriver he was using to hold the halves of the core apart slipped and they slammed together and went supercritical.

Yeah, but tentacles can’t see. They’re firing blind based on instructions only.

Since when did spray and pray stop being a valid tactic?!

Well, at least I tried.

Blackadder is one series that I keep meaning to watch, it seems hilarious. Not sure it was ever broadcast in Finland way back when, but now we have torrentscompletely legal ways to acquire media off the internet

In more ways than just poison too! I think there’s still limitations on how many mushrooms you’re supposed to consume in some areas, because some of the fallout from the Chornobyl disaster is still present in them.