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1. Big lie

   A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique. The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his book Mein Kampf (1925), to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic. According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged land striking back at "international Jewry", which the Nazis blamed for starting World War I. Nazi propaganda repeatedly claimed that Jews held power behind the scenes in Britain, Russia, and the United States. It further spread claims that the Jews had begun a war of extermination against Germany, and used these to assert that Germany had a right to annihilate the Jews in self-defense. In the 21st century, the term has been applied to attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election by Donald Trump and his allies, specifically the false claim that the election was stolen through massive voter and electoral fraud. The scale of the claims resulted in Trump supporters attacking the United States Capitol. Later reports indicate that Trump knew he had lost the election while promoting the narrative. Scholars say that constant repetition in many different media is necessary for the success of the big lie technique, as is a psychological motivation for the audience to believe the extreme assertions.

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1. Big Lie

   The Big Lie is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.

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1. big lie

   whopper

   he told a big lie

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on May 20, 2019  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of big lie in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of big lie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of big lie in a Sentence

1. Adam Kinzinger:

   If somebody really thinks that this narrative of January 6 that some are trying to push is actually going to be the one written in the history books -- it's not. It's just a question of when, is it sooner or later, but it's coming. So I wouldn't want to be on -- the one out there on TV pushing the' Big Lie' and think somebody is going to eventually be proud of what I was doing.

2. Rhode Island:

   This is a Republican Party of QAnon, and chaos … the insurrection and the Big Lie, it's an ultra MAGA, Trumpist party … and I think House Democrats have shown we're delivering for people, for working families and that's why we're going to hold House Democratic Caucus.

3. Rafael Anchia:

   We are not going to buckle to the big lie in the state of Texas, we are not here smiling, we are not spiking the ball, we are not saying we are happy. In fact we are sad for democracy in the state of Texas.

4. Eric Swalwell:

   This was not a heated passion crime. This didn't happen spontaneouslywith words just slipping out Donald Trump's mouth at that rally. For months he had propagated this big lie to radicalize these terrorists [and] to call ... thecalvary to Washington, and he called it 'stop the steal,' and if you're not an elected representative, the only way that you can stop the stealis by taking a physical act. He told them, don't show weakness, you will lose your country if you don't fight.

5. Chuck Schumer:

   They are caving to Donald Trump and proving that the Republican Party is still drunk off the big lie.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=big lie