Comments on: Lessons from WWII https://habitablezone.com/2024/03/07/lessons-from-wwii/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:20:54 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2024/03/07/lessons-from-wwii/#comment-52965 ER Fri, 08 Mar 2024 03:26:29 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=102851#comment-52965 My grandmother swore that she knew on UNIMPEACHABLE AUTHORITY that when Dale Evans died, Roy Rogers married her twin sister so he could keep the act together. Who knows? Stranger things have happened. After all, didn't Roy have "Trigger" and "Bullet" stuffed and erected in his living room? <img src="https://i.etsystatic.com/11006216/r/il/611025/759239718/il_794xN.759239718_a9qz.jpg" alt="" /> <img src="https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media2.salon.com/2010/07/trigger_rides_off_into_the_sunset.jpg" alt="" /> My grandmother swore that she knew on UNIMPEACHABLE AUTHORITY that when Dale Evans died, Roy Rogers married her twin sister so he could keep the act together. Who knows? Stranger things have happened. After all, didn’t Roy have “Trigger” and “Bullet” stuffed and erected in his living room?

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2024/03/07/lessons-from-wwii/#comment-52961 ER Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:23:37 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=102851#comment-52961 It used to be propagandists put out lies they wanted their targets to believe. Today's propaganda is designed to establish lies their targets want to believe. It used to be propagandists put out lies they wanted their targets to believe.

Today’s propaganda is designed to establish lies their targets want to believe.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2024/03/07/lessons-from-wwii/#comment-52960 podrock Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:49:08 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=102851#comment-52960 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/world-war-ii-rumor-clinics-helped-america-battle-wild-gossip-180983883/ Edit: more about Fran Sweeney: https://binjonline.com/2020/08/21/fran-sweeneys-fight-against-fascists-in-the-1940s-mirrors-todays-battle-against-bigotry/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/world-war-ii-rumor-clinics-helped-america-battle-wild-gossip-180983883/

Edit: more about Fran Sweeney: https://binjonline.com/2020/08/21/fran-sweeneys-fight-against-fascists-in-the-1940s-mirrors-todays-battle-against-bigotry/

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