Some of us are still fighting in the replies.

No

Fair

Fair enough. Just grabbed one of the first images a search threw. Sorry if it was out of context or portrayed you unfairly. And of course people propagandize about you too. Anyone with a strong enough voice will get bad faith critiques thrown against them and many will be with political intent.

I do think this is a fair example to exemplify the point I was trying to make, though. Your quote being out of context does not nullify its dychotomical political intent and makes my point stronger.

Propaganda is hard to identify when you’re predisposed to believe it, it’s everywhere and people propagate it without even noticing.

Well I guess you’re right and there is a lot of hostility towards certain thoughts in most instances. Everyone holds something sacred I guess.

Maybe I’m insensitive or just foolish but to me there’s comedy in that.

Lol I like BrainInABox better, and I completely disagree with their worldview.

The reason why you haven’t seen these horrors is because to you they just look like others like you.

Regardless if you agree with this post, for example, it’s propaganda, no different than the american apologists you can accurately identify, the bible thumpling catholics educating the uncivilized people that hadn’t heard the healing words of our lord and saviour jesus christ or those who believe everything should be privatized/converted into a free market due to orthodox economic doctrine.

It is propaganda because it operates under the framework that someone who disagrees with a positive association must have not understood a specific sacred text or heard a sacred doctrine, or if they have they must be morally defficient, leaving no room for debate whatsoever.

It’s extremely difficult to identify propaganda that caters to our own emotional needs and positive associations.

One of the easiest ways to spot propaganda is the “no room for questioning, let alone disagreeing” aspect. In healthy societies with healthy ideologies there is a legitimate space for disagreement and debate. If there wasn’t, power would always remain in the same hands which is one of the aspects most criticize about both capitalism and communism.

And believe it or not, there is more to the world than the right-left west-east dychotomies.

If you look at history, similar ideologigal schisms have happened time and time again in times of shifts in the balance of power, such as when the printing press was invented and the the catholic - lutheran division that came from it. or during the decadence and later fall of the roman republic with the equestrials vs patricians (which originally shared ideological vision).

These largescale violent power struggles always end up boiling down to “you’re either with us or against us” which in my opinion is the true poison.

Feel free to disqualify or label me now and have a nice day.

lemmy_irl

Yes, reading every horrible news article 24-7 is your MORAL DUTY and any attention to anything else, even if due to mental health concerns, makes you one of THEM and a BAD PERSON. Any distraction whatsoever is EVIL.

Have you considered the effect our emotional landscape has over our mental health, our effectiveness to pursue the world we want and the wellbeing of those around us? Sometimes people need distractions, friend.

I appreciate you being understanding. Will atill stop using imgur though.

I am that user and you are correct.

Sorry, i didn’t know what I was doing. Will use catbox from now on

Not even us chileans get Chile tbh.

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You don’t know me

[Citation needed]

Not AI afaik. IIRC It happened in a zoo in poland.

And I only made the title clickbaitey because of my desperate need for constant attention and validation.

just need a double check from the more reasonable parts of the internet

So where are you asking then?