Nice try, propagandists. You’ll never stop me from hating Mondays
Are you a goddamn lobbyist working for the anti-propaganda agenda?
I mean, this lasagna isn’t going to pay for itself
this is soaring eagle reporting to the nest, the cat is in the bag. Over.
I saw this one as a reply to someone saying that the humans were obviously the good guys in Helldivers. I laugh about it almost every day.
I think this is a good place to drop this:
“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,...
This is amazing. What's the actual context? It doesn't seem to fit the post it is responding to.
I feel deeply the truthiness of that blurb
It's from 2015, second paragraph for the first part and a little more down on the second part. A russian, I'm assuming, propagandist admitting to what and how they're doing it.
I knew on the bad place that they were targeting me for just argument's sake, but I could never quite put my finger on the how or why. This explains it. They also didn't seem to care if it was a small subreddit or a large one, they went after me relentlessly. I was the one who followed influential people btw, not the influencer.
Bad ideology is like bad breath, we only smell it on others.
Also, there's no such thing as "unbiased", it's more constructive if people are upfront and honest about their biases, but that takes self-reflection and self-knowledge.
i am proudly biased towards not wanting people to suffer
same as with drugs: don't punish; educate
Except for me of course.
I believe you would want to be more dialectic about this not didactic
the didactic lesson is "we are not immune to propaganda"
the dialectic conversation would be discussing the biases and perspectives of different propaganda
technically the meme is correct but ur not wrong, just one chapter ahead
