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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |
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* [[Salvador Dali]] once sent a telegram for Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, for his adoption of a scepter as part of his regalia. Dali's intent was to mock him, but Ceauşescu, who had one of the biggest [[Cult of Personality|personality cults]] ever, took it seriously, and the text was published in the Party's newspaper. When he ''did'' find out it was a joke, he fired the editor who published it. Never mind that he was the one who ordered it to be published. |
* [[Salvador Dali]] once sent a telegram for Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, for his adoption of a scepter as part of his regalia. Dali's intent was to mock him, but Ceauşescu, who had one of the biggest [[Cult of Personality|personality cults]] ever, took it seriously, and the text was published in the Party's newspaper. When he ''did'' find out it was a joke, he fired the editor who published it. Never mind that he was the one who ordered it to be published. |
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* One is forced to wonder if some of the late-2021 "revelations" to the believers of the [[QAnon]] [[Conspiracy Theories|conspiracy theory]]/pseudoreligion -- things like the promised appearance of the late John F. Kennedy, Jr. in Dealey Plaza on the anniversary of [[John F. Kennedy|his father]]'s assassination to hand over the American government to [[Donald Trump]] -- weren't actually being created and promulgated just to see how outrageous and stupid a claim its followers would swallow unquestioningly. To be fair, some of the more prominent adherents of QAnon called bullshit on "prophecies" like these, but for the most part the rank-and-file ignored their warnings and embraced them eagerly. |
* One is forced to wonder if some of the late-2021 "revelations" to the believers of the [[QAnon]] [[Conspiracy Theories|conspiracy theory]]/pseudoreligion -- things like the promised appearance of the late John F. Kennedy, Jr. in Dealey Plaza on the anniversary of [[John F. Kennedy|his father]]'s assassination to hand over the American government to [[Donald Trump]] -- weren't actually being created and promulgated just to see how outrageous and stupid a claim its followers would swallow unquestioningly. Even if JFK Jr ''had'' faked his death in 1999, it's not exactly clear why he'd support a politician whose views are completely contradictory to his own or why he'd choose the site of his father's murder to reveal himself. To be fair, some of the more prominent adherents of QAnon called bullshit on "prophecies" like these, but for the most part the rank-and-file ignored their warnings and embraced them eagerly. |
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== In-Universe Examples == |
== In-Universe Examples == |
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