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China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?
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I’m tired of being surrounded by propaganda. Do better.
Everything you consume is propaganda and has an agenda, you just see this as propaganda because it counters the propaganda that's already internalized and invisible to you
Shitposting isn't propaganda
This may counter propaganda, but is also clearly propaganda itself.
Literally anything that causes an idea to spread is propaganda. Advertising, calls for help, gossip, commentary, analysis, storytelling, hell public art or theater or even just public conflict. That's what the word means, the means of idea propagation.
Absolutely, that's my point.
So calling anything propaganda is pointless, because everything is propaganda.
Exactly. And saying this meme is counter-propaganda is pointless, since it itself is propaganda.
Ok, sure. It's exactly as propaganda as anything else
Propaganda is just messaging, there's nothing inherently evil about it. The question is what message is being propagated.
Absolutely - I did not mean to imply that this is evil propaganda.
China executes pedophiles and America elects them and worships at their churches. It's really not a complicated comparison. There is no gotcha here
Fair, though I'm not sure it's as simple as that. I'm no fan of the US, but what do you think is the biggest issue plaguing China right now from a humanist perspective?
Maybe both countries should stop executing people given that a non-negligible number of them are entirely innocent. Maybe capital punishment should have been abandoned long before the 21st Century and any country that continues it be a pariah state.
Again, there is no cultural artifact that does not serve a propaganda purpose or espouse a worldview
Indeed - Riverside's claim that this is not propaganda is therefore false.
It's not propaganda as we've been made to understand it in the west, because that's a meaningless vibes based category
Hmm, maybe I misunderstood you.
If all cultural artifacts serve a propaganda purpose, but this post is not propaganda, does that mean that this post is not a cultural artifact?
I'm saying we've been taught that "propaganda" is just another word for "lies" when the reality is that it covers basically any piece of art, culture or commentary. It's just any art or information that advances a specific view of the world. As a category it's hopelessly broad, so it's better to understand it as a function rather than a thing.
Tell that to your pedophile rulers
we do
lmao the fuck you do
Once I stop reading "two things can be true at once" whenever your nazi pedophile rulers tell you something bad about the next country they want to destroy maybe I'll believe you
Americans are protesting in historic numbers regularly. Larger than anything aside from the earth day protests that I am aware of. This narrative that Americans are rolling over and accepting this is false. It’s not being reported.
Of course that’s not enough l, but it’s counterproductive to spread information that contributes to a sense of learned helplessness. Trump is a traitor and a serial child rapist and murder, and all true Americans believe this and are fighting however they can.
You don't do jack shit
@Amnesigenic @ChadGPT2 They do shit, inc Jack. And Pete.
Cool story
@Amnesigenic
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4M-Prike98
Denver, traffic lights made to say Trump is a pedophile etc
But maybe you thinking of other kinda shi ppl should be doin? Do share, we need all hands on deck in this global clusterfuck 🤍🌸🕊️
Congrats, you've raised awareness! Unfortunately everyone is already 100% aware of the problem so this is useless performative bullshit
Then you might want to get off the internet and live in the woods
Tempting