5/ Notes:
- propaganda "dunks" are used to create illusion of lies
- the illusion of lies is transferred to further, unrelated topics
- the propaganda "dunks" are cheaply made
6/ Notes:
- it takes conscious effort to suspend disbelief & natural wariness of propaganda
- once invested in that effort, one is much more given to go on believing propaganda & identifying with it.
The meta effect: manufactured alignment through cheap propaganda.
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1/ Witness a leftist #bluecheckmark sitting safely in USA, posting opinions.
Here he's calling an actual reporter on the ground "journalist" in scare quotes, and mis-representing the tweet. The tweet is simple: a report, not "taking credit".
2/ >Why?
Gonzalo Lira has disappeared disappearance. An opinion poaster and youtuber, recently posting spicy commentary on the #Russia-n #invasion. Last stationed in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
>citizen of the world
Citizens of the world unite? I don't like this.
1/ The pervasive censorship and the uniparty establishment are american wartime measures. #dmutc
In turn, keeping up the wartime posture is dictated by maintaining the #PaxAmericana. Which has certain major advantages.
2/ The censorship is used to maintain a somewhat coherent foreign policy and posture in the face of strong internal dissent and plurality of voices.
3/ The uniparty establishment is used to continue economic & other wartime measures more or less intact, while being able to let voters express dissatisfaction with the outgoing admin & reps.
The above two factors lead to certain major problems.
2/ In USA and several other countries, the people are the sovereign. The people have the moral and practical right and obligation to decide the *exceptions* to the rules.
We've seen that in action many times.
3/ The people deciding exception to rules, above and beyond lawyers' "rule of law":
"Penny Auction", in particular in context of Great Depression
1/ There's an interesting pattern where Ukrainians claim that Russians did something unexpected & very wrong, even hardly believable. Denials, derision and accusations of "lies" come rolling in from experts, blue checkmarks and Ru MoD.
2/ This particular story is hardly believable.
>Everybody knows not to dig there
>No real military value to digging in there (in fact the trenches were abandoned without being much used)
>The radiation there "isn't even that bad" after decades