The God Damnedest stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard

[maxrandb]

and I spent 30 years in the Navy.

Richard Stengel just on MSNBC and actually argued; "I consider Trump the liar in Chief, but when someone else repeats his falsehoods, I'm reluctant to call that a lie, because they may actually believe it to be true"

I think we've become too fucking stupid to survive.

[rufus dog]

1. Just enabling

That being said, there is no fucking way you spent 30 years in the Navy, or anywhere, and hear someone utter more ignorant. Good thing is we block most of it out.

[Botany]

2. Joseph Goebbles

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

See Rush Limbaugh, see Pat Robertson, see WMDs, see Mike Pence, see Donald Trump

[OBrien]

3. Like Holocaust deniers?

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Your position is the correct one.

But I'll give you another perspective. I live in a community where illegal things occurred many years ago. One of the ways the culprits "got away with it" was misinformation that was spread freely by those who were most at fault. They were lies. But I hesitated to call it a lie, or call them liars because they had an entire community of lawyers just ready to pounce on anyone who dug too deeply. So I viewed it this way: Lying suggests malicious intent. So, to avoid being sued for defamation, the best thing to say is that your facts are incorrect, or you are spreading misinformation.