We have had more than a decade of social media and internet message boards to learn that this whole 'expose the lie' myth promulgated mostly by free speech absolutists turns out to be complete bullshit. Masses of people are dumb, easily manipulated mobs whether they are in the public square or in some online echo chamber. The truth will be buried in a pile of a thousand lies.

A keystone of leftist psychology that "the others" are dumb. This leads directly to "fact checking" and ultimately memory holing information that the masses are "too dumb" to see. This idea that one is correct in deciding what history others can see is a form of mental illness; _throughly_ anchored in human history.

The Wayback Machie is the latest 1984 example: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/information-war-interne...

(note yc already shadow bands 0h links by not allowing comments on submissions, this (yc) is an awesome place, it's sad really)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495333

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486135

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823044

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623177

I would tend to agree with this. What I am worried is that Trump has been making a fool of himself for the last 74 years. Yet, more than 70.000.000 people voted for him. So there must be something wrong about our assumption...