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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Like, I get that you're the admin of this channel or whatever, but I think the hatred of U2, is propaganda generated by the right because the content of their lyrics are generally anti-facist, anti-hate, and pro-solidarity, and shitting on that helps shit on anything else that seems connected to it.

I know that anyone you look at deep enough, you can probably find something to dislike about them, but it's a whole lot easier to take someone that's trying to do something good, to stand for something good, to find a flaw with them and amplify it wildly out of proportion.

To get people that would be an ally for the cause to hate them for a completely different other reason, to help undermine the cause that's hurting the person that's doing the amplification. This is called Propaganda.

Propaganda is the reason why so many people hate Hillary. Yes, she did some bad things, but she would have been a hell of a better president than Trump by every single metric for every single person on the planet, and that was the thing we were supposed to be voting for instead of what we did.

Kamala would have been a better president than Trump by every metric, and yet we didn't, because we gave the stupid yokels an insult to fleeing at Kamala and say that she's a man or what the fuck ever they said, and so we don't have, you know, a... reasonably decent president, we have the largest shitting stink of piece of shit that ever fell out of a human's vagina as a president.

U2 is singing about things that are needing to be sung about, and finding a reason to hate on that only serves to help the enemies.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What’s propaganda is music produced by a member of the haute bourgeois for the working class. The guy is worth about $800M. He has about as much in common with us as Marie Antoinette had with the French peasantry.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why do you think the state department & CIA put so much money into establishing a distinctly American culture industry with these stars as fixtures at public events featuring explicit milirary propaganda?