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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf Mar 2, 2025

The US has fallen for propaganda lies, hook, line & sinker.
The fossil fuel industry's lies about #globalwarming.
Putin's lies about his attack on #Ukraine.
Just unbelievably stupid and dangerous.
Facts don't count there any more.
#Europe must step up.

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@rahmstorf

Two quotes from Hannah Arendt on this topic:

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it."

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"But perhaps the most striking and frightening aspect of the German flight from reality is the habit of treating facts as though they were mere opinions."