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jimmysong jimmy@jimmysong.org 1 year ago
You don't understand propaganda if you think you're immune to it. The dumb people continue their exposure thinking their rational facilities will make them immune. "I read the New York Times because I want to know what my opponents are thinking!" The smart people decrease their exposure and don't engage in the framing.

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npub1fqus...9ux3 1 year ago
100% We're constantly being programmed. For bad or for good. Limits and critical thinking are of the utmost importance.
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LWB bmaxi89@iris.to 1 year ago
The only natural thing to do is to detach from TVs, newspapers and internet-based media streams. Fuck those propaganda agencies, all of them, from left to right, from communists to Alt-Rights, from anarchists to statists. The only news you should care about are about your family.
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Fiat Shenanigans 🤡🌎 lprimordium@getalby.com 1 year ago
Disagree.
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You don't understand propaganda if you think you're immune to it. The dumb people continue their exposure thinking their rational facilities will make them immune. "I read the New York Times because I want to know what my opponents are thinking!" The smart people decrease their exposure and don't engage in the framing.
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Liberty Gal 1 year ago
There may be times to take a peak, but I agree whole-heartedly that if you regularly read/watch the indoctrination, it will have a detrimental effect on you. Fill your mind with truth.
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NodlAndHodl nodlAndHodl@nodlAndHodl.com 1 year ago
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You don't understand propaganda if you think you're immune to it. The dumb people continue their exposure thinking their rational facilities will make them immune. "I read the New York Times because I want to know what my opponents are thinking!" The smart people decrease their exposure and don't engage in the framing.
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Eric Brown ericbrown@nostrplebs.com 1 year ago
I’m one of those ppl who only reads NYT just to see what the propaganda is for the day and narratives being pushed I do find it helpful but I think this is a fair point
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Rand 1 year ago
name calling bothers me bro, sorry if calling u bro bothers u
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Mattias Lindberg fakepilot@getalby.com 1 year ago
Same argument could be said from the other side. “Don’t engage in the side of those extreme Bitcoiner’s, Putin lovers, Palestine huggers and/or right wingers or you’ll become like them!” Agree to lowering your exposure to what you feel is wrong. But to be intelligent, you have to expose yourself to both enough to get a definition of right and wrong.
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