Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “repeat“, came with the note, “I’m not sure about that.” And Jesus falls for Mo’s bromide.
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Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ lies
January 10, 2024 • 8:45 am
A masterpiece!
Trumpism in a nutshell!
I remember having dinner with a friend and his mom and sister back in the early 1970s. They were a bit out there by my standards then; for example, they were fans of this young musical artist named David Bowie, and at the time I had no idea who he was.
One of the things they said stuck with me. They said, “If you shout something loud enough, eventually people will come to believe what you are saying.” I thought this was nonsensical, but the last decade or so has made me recall this experience many times.
Another great Jesus ‘N’ Mo – it explains a great deal about the state the world is in politically nowadays.
What’s an example, from the last decade, of a statement that came to be treated as true through repetition?
Examples would include: “trans women are women”, “races are purely sociological, not real”, “trans kids will commit suicide if their identity is not affirmed”, “immigration boosts the economy”, “the gender pay gap shows that women are underpaid”, “black Americans are killed by the police and wildly disproportionate rates”, “The Russians interfered in the 2016 Presidential election, likely affecting the result”, “system racism is currently oppressing black people”, “speech causes harm/trauma” and “people need trigger warnings to avoid trauma”.
Donald Trump’s ceaseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him by massive fraud has been consistently believed by two-thirds of Republicans despite an absolute dearth of evidence supporting the claim.
Yes! I was waiting for someone to mention that 🙂
Crooked Hillary
Would that be, in caniform Latin, “argumentum ad attrition”?
Last frame shouldda been that henceforth, Mo is buying.
However, if you repeat something TOO often it may lose some effectiveness and/or contextual meaning…(why this does not happen with tRumpisms amongst the huge swaths of poll responders these days is beyond my Irony Meter’s capacity)
Per cartoon, Mohammed is right for a change. I’m reading a book I highly recommend (did I learn about it from this forum?): Will Storr’s The Status Game, and I just finished the chapter on the culturally widespread Satanic ritual abuse fever in which a false idea spreads virally, reinforced in part by the enjoyable feelings associated with believing, especially when the idea is believed religiously. I suppose true ideas may be said to spread virally too? (great scientific discoveries, great art). But when true, are they believed religiously? (book says anything can take on religious fervor, including atheism)