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Lenin Was a Mushroom
- dang 7y agoLast year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421843 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874839 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952927
- techntoke 7y agoAnd Russia and the conservative media continue to use conspiracies and gullibility to spread fake news to the masses today
- rinchik 7y agoleave politics out please. If I rephrase your comment using "liberal media" it would make the same (if not more) sense.
- techntoke 7y agoLet's recall... - Seth Rich Conspiracy - PizzaGate - Obama citizenship - Q Anon - Clinton Body Count - "Witch Hunt" Most of these have been parroted by the President. The list goes on and on. Let's hear your list of liberal conspiracies.
- dang 7y agoPlease stop taking HN threads further into political flamewar. We've asked you many times to stop breaking the site guidelines. If you keep breaking them and ignoring our requests, we're going to have to ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rinchik 7y ago> "...has often been used as proof of the gullibility of the masses" Spot on! gullibility is a very serious issue, it's a lot easier to blindly follow than to question, to research, to form an opinion. True for humanity in general, not specific to Russia. On the other hand, if you think about it, gullibility may not be an issue at all, but a psychological defense. When times are tough we tend to be more gullible, and it brings us comfort to hear what we want to hear, or listen to confident speakers who briefly "make sense".