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Whenever my mom says "Tell the truth you won't be in trouble." I would almost always end up telling the truth and i end up getting in trouble and she would talk to my dad and all kinds of things, what's the most successful Lie in History?

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[–] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago

"Trickle Down" economics.

[–] Sharmat 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’d say the Donation of Constantine

It was a forged Imperial Roman decree supposedly from Emperor Constantine the Great, which gave all temporal power over the Western Roman Empire to the Pope. Now, how is this important? This was how the papacy came into possession of the Lateran Palace, which was the Pope’s residence for much of history. It also served as the justification for the pope to break the formal convention of the five episcopal sees (i.e in the early church, Rome was just one of the important seats of power, the others were: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch and all had equal authority) and declare itself supreme over the other centres. It also played an important role in the events of the Great Schism of 1054 (which formally separated the Western Latin church from the Eastern Greek church) and the investiture crisis in the 11th to 13th centuries.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could've just said Christianity, as a whole.

[–] jarrn@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

And you could have read a really interesting part of history...

[–] Tight-laced@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Oooh, that's fascinating

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way to make me learn. On social media.

Seriously though, thanks for this great comment!

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you subscribe to the right subs/magazines/communities/whatever, there is a ton to learn. History, science, archeology, sociology, psychology, medicine, marine biology, mycology, geography, foreign languages, programming.... On and on and on. Social media doesn't have to be utter crap.

[–] ElectronBadger@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The exact lie would be: "There's a supreme being watching you. Now do as I say!"
That's the gist of all religions I know.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Coughs in Buddhist.

[–] Polarsailor@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] sethboy66@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Though it's important to remember that the whole WMD thing came from British intelligence; Bush's fault was blindly trusting their intelligence or, perhaps more accurately, accepting our own intelligence's appraisal of "maybe" as enough confirmation.

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[–] Detry@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WookieMunster@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

My grandpa never stopped talking about that play, He was a steeler for life

[–] esc27@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

The lost cause doctrine and related overall glorification of the u.s. civil war era confederacy. The fact that there are confederate statues in states that fought for the union is insane…

[–] Naich@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Brexit. Millions voted against their own interests and to make themselves poorer and more insular in order to empower the wealthy elite, thanks to the unrelenting torrent of lies emitted by the Leave campaign.

[–] livus@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

For a lie to be completely successful I think none of us would ever know it was a lie.

[–] AlexRogansBeta@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Trickle down economics

[–] Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like it would have to be one of the many lies that Juan Pujol Garcia made in WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blN49yGet8g&ab_channel=TomScott

He was a double agent for British intelligence. Won the highest Military honor in Britain AND in Germany. This man lied his way into the spy business, and proceeded to completely hoodwink German intelligence.

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[–] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For what it's worth, vitamin A is good for your eyes, particularly night vision. However, the carrot thing was in fact a lie. While carrots do have vitamin A, vegetables are not a good source of it; you need a meat-based source in order for it to be readily available to your body (sorry vegans--fortunately, it can be supplemented with pills). And no matter how much of it you eat, you will not get super night vision.

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Diamonds are rare and should be expensive. Laughable.

[–] Sterile_Technique@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

"Money can't buy happiness." "If you work hard, YOU TOO can be a billionaire." and other snips of class warfare/propaganda made to trick poor people into feeling complacent or even aggressively attached to their position of being shat on by oligarchs.

We (collective) eat that shit up and then beg for seconds when we should be erecting guillotines.

[–] cuckold@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'd tell you not to cut yourself with that edge, but there's no point in arguing with flat (earth) heads

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