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[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The whole quote is fantastic

This is not propaganda, and everything I write in the book is, to the best of my knowledge, true.

In fact, propaganda does not really exist in democracies. That is not to say that democratic governments don't lie. They do, all the time.

But propaganda is something that false or heavily-spun information put out by governments in a heavily controlled media environment where there is no other side to rebut it.

Just look at Minneapolis this weekend. A man gets shot. The government calls him a "domestic terrorist." If this were China, that would be the end of it.

Lmao

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He literally did the thing!!

During the height of the cold war, a Soviet is given a diplomatic assignment in America and is travelling to the US.

On the flight over there, he is seated next to an American and they strike up a conversation.

"Gee, you guys in the Soviet Union really have some impressive propaganda over there!"

"Perhaps. But the propaganda that you have in the US is far better."

"...what propaganda?"

"Exactly."

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

America: "At least we know the government is lying about the masked federal agent killed that innocent person!"

China: "You have masked federal agents killing innocent people?"

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But propaganda is something that false or heavily-spun information put out by governments in a heavily controlled media environment where there is no other side to rebut it.

Ah, I see, he's using a weird idiosyncratic definition of propaganda and expecting everyone else to magically know it

Reminds me of the guy who tried to tell me that opposition to genocide "isn't political"

[–] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

but even by that weird definition, it doesnt work. western mainstream media is in lockstep, refusing to call what's happening in gaza a genocide, parroting israel's blatant nonsense, etc.

i guess to these idiots, if it's not called a ministry of agitprop, it doesnt exist.