• schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    For one thing, telling yourself something doesn’t mean you don’t understand that it can and may still happen.

    The best part of propaganda is when you don’t even understand that’s what it is.

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      8 months ago

      What does this have to do with my comment? You’re the one that said the “world told itself” something. I’m saying it didn’t.

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        8 months ago

        The world told itself even though they knew the USA was stupid enough to do it anyways.

        Your entire comment could have been a campaign by the opposition to sow discontent to do exactly what you claim it did. We will never know for sure, but it sure as hell has propaganda written all over it.

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            8 months ago

            Leaked by the Russians which are backed by republicans… yeah reaks of propaganda lmfao.

            Propaganda comes in many forms, as I said, the best kind is the kind you don’t even understand is happening.

            Thanks for making my point so well!

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              8 months ago

              Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The emails came at a shit time for the DNC for sure, maybe the Republicans were involved, maybe they weren’t, but that’s irrelevant because this actually happened. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it isn’t propaganda, this is a bed the DNC made for themselves.

              Imo it wouldn’t have made a difference, everyone watching knew what was happening before the email leak, but obviously we’ll never know for sure.

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                8 months ago

                The propaganda is it being leaked, who said conspiracy…?

                Also, that very likely wouldn’t have made a difference in the end result, without that discourse they would have found another avenue.

                I’m sorry the propaganda worked so well on you, you now even defending it!

                Edit, what do you think propaganda is? Do you think it has be exclusively made up or something?

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                  8 months ago

                  Can you describe what you think the leak of those emails being was trying to achieve, from a propaganda perspective?

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                    8 months ago

                    The information in it was used by republicans to show how the DNC can’t choose its own leader, so why should they be trusted to run the government.

                    It’s not what I think, it’s the tactic they actually used.