Are you immune to propaganda?

Mar 7, 2022 1:02 PM

#51

Cammell

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No, but I try to distance myself from it

Mar 7, 2022 3:01 PM

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Hate to break it to you, fellas, but...I'm just stopping by with a meme. :3

Mar 7, 2022 3:16 PM

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Noboru said:

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People seem to think propaganda originates only from bad places like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, but we in America were adopting British propaganda techniques starting in the early 20th century. And propaganda doesn't just effect people's view of the world or their country, it effects relationships. The fact people would end their relationship with someone over supporting Trump is absolutely absurd.

I completely agree with you. Also from the British came the extreme anti-German sentiments. Now people start to do pretty much the same thing towards Russians. It's like people have become too stupid to learn from history or they stay willfully ignorant

And relationships that depend too much on which side you support or even just not support enough are quite fragile. Now the scary part is when enough people follow a specific narrative where it starts to become "okay" to not treat people based on their ethnicity or medical choice

Yup; and we've been doing the Anti-Russian stuff forever since it not only gives us an enemy, but our anti-soviet and communist red scare tactics at the time were used as a means to suppress labor movements.

Yeah Anti-German sentiments at the time were probably awful, just awful. Here's an example of how much people were overreacting. Kitchener, a city in Canada was originally called Berlin, changed it's name in 1916.

Yeah shows you what kind of people the people one knows might be, if they're willing to end a relationship because you don't agree with them.

Too much in recent years we've seen a cheering on of censorship, even if it's under a justification of censoring information that's wrong, it isn't right to do that. And it's not even about censoring information that's wrong to begin with, it's about censoring information that's critical and damaging.

Yes, that's what the Red Scare was all about

I didn't know about this particular place, but I've heard of other such name changes

This sadly isn't restricted to personal lives, but also to professional lives. As in denying services or venues to people of a specific nationality and/or for voicing an opinion that is contrary to the authorized ideology and/or opinion

Yes, everything becomes a threat when it goes against the narrative. It's also funny how quickly people join on the support bandwagon when they hear it from their government and on the media that being for a specific thing is "good" and being against or just not voicing support is "bad". Most of those people don't show their support and actually care, because if they did, they would have done so before their media and/or politicians told them that it would be a good thing. No, those people just play "showing solidarity" in order to improve their standing in society. This is just like playing the fan of a football team and shunning off anyone that appears to be from a rivaling team

And then people say they're not being manipulated when they only react when they're being told to do so from the media and politicians of their country/region

Sometimes I feel the whole world has gone insane and lost common sense lol.

And on your point about how people react to things when they are told to/told to feel things. Instead of doing it before. I completely agree. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a perfect example. What's going on there is terrible, and people should be outraged and feel something. I'm not saying this applies to everyone, but for people who feel nothing when there's atrocities committed in the Middle East by the US and Israel. But now feel something; it's only because they're told to feel outraged.

And you're point on ""showing solidarity" in order to improve their standing in society. "" Yup often times people protest for self-righteous reasons of feeling good/morally superior. Or worse, for Social Media reasons

Yes, the craziness has even increased in the recent years. Especially as a result of guided thinking where people are getting implanted thoughts

Yes but there have been so many atrocities and bad things happening that makes one feel indifferent about those, which is a form of self-protection

Exactly. I'd like to know how we ended up being in a mindset dictatorship

And it'll probably get worse lol; even with the last few years bringing about even greater craziness in what you can and can't say

I guess that's true, it is a bit too much to expect everyone to feel the same I do about it

We probably always have been. The term itself comes from the 20th century, but the idea of shaping public opinion, you could probably trace that back to ancient times.

If you're controlling information, you can dictate what does and doesn't get out. Although for the longest time now that's impossible to control what doesn't get out. But it's not about convincing everyone, it's convincing enough people to follow your propaganda.

The only propaganda I like is Holo Propaganda :D

Yes, but it's also in parts because people have seemingly become more sensitive, so that's why we have all the additional rules and the CE board closed

Yeah, but quite some expect others to feel the same as them themselves. One of the major conflict potentials in human interactions is precisely when one side doesn't feel as much about the other person or about a specific matter as the other one

So I was right years ago when I was mentioning in some thread (forgot about which) that that time would one where we would still have the illusion of freedom. Which would make the illusion become more visible as such

Yes, it's all about influencing enough people to follow a specific narrative

lol, I was considering watching it, but I feel too unmotivated/tired for it, so that propaganda won't work on me xD

That too. Also it's so stupid on how people can't have a spirited debate and discussion and exchange of ideas. Instead it has to be a who's right thing, defending one's point, while ignoring every thing the other person says. They shouldn't have taken down the Current Events thread. I find it fun. I mean if people are just gonna get mad at other viewpoints, then they shouldn't post on there.

Yeah of course we've always been controlled to think a certain way by those in power.
With freedom, It depends how we look at it from what perspective. We talking about, certain aspects of society or the whole thing altogether

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Is it working XD

They shouldn't even click on the thread if they get mad that easily

It's getting closer to the whole thing

Nah, it doesn't work like that

How do you feel that it is being struck upon society altogether?

Then I guess we'll have to use our Superior Linguistic Skills to convince you XD

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Mar 7, 2022 3:24 PM

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I'm trying to make more people Marxist-Leninist

Have you tried giving people severe brain damage? That usually works.

Mar 7, 2022 3:32 PM

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An injury I suffered when I was younger, then trying to read up on the so called ways to "help" it and visiting several doctors opened me up to the misinformation about my injury when I found someone who could actually treat it.

I trust myself the most and always question what people say and research what they are saying so unless you are really good bullshitting then I won't be swayed.

Mar 7, 2022 6:12 PM

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no, because i don't give a fuck about them, i just followed my instincts

Mar 8, 2022 11:42 AM

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