For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Absolutely, but little of that information was common knowledge at the time.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      I’m not sure common knowledge is a appropriate here, most of what you and I listed still isn’t common knowledge.

      I recall all of this being covered and discussed. The main difference was the type of excuses being made becuase believe wanted to believe he was saving the world.

      There are definitely people who still believe. But there are now fewer people proclaiming it and the excuses are gone.

      Now the argument is if he’s a Nazi or not. Few take his goals seriously, we’re in some weird state where people are gaslighting themselves for various reasons. A big one is to protect the massive amount of money invested in his worthless companies.