Government 'propaganda' techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with feds

cosmicgadget a day ago | parent | next [-]

People had the choice between "Immigrants are eating pets" and "What my opponent just said is stupid" They chose the former.

It's important to be prepared for 2-4 or more years of alternative reality.

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like_any_other a day ago | parent [-]

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	▲	cosmicgadget a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well I guess I chose an example of people happily ingesting an obviously fake reality because it's most relevant to an article about propaganda coming from the same source. There's also the idea that it's far easier to resolve/compromise on disagreements about policy (e.g. immigration) than disagreements about reality. Or, more fundamentally, disageements about if reality matters to us at all or if we'd rather choose the universe that makes us feel better. It's kind of a tangent but it seems like when you are at full employment, most job growth would go to immigrants without any sort of foul play.
	▲	gdulli a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Because they didn't want to appear like the shitty kind of person who'd cherry pick articles about groups of people they're looking for an excuse to hate?

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Yeul a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seems to me the current administration is at war with approximately half the population.

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leosanchez a day ago | parent [-]

population of Chicago or America or World ?

	▲	DiabloD3 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes.

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burnt-resistor a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The greater dangerous trend is the hypermilitarization of the police and conflation between police and military by these Meal Team Six untrained, unfit, bumbling fools violating cherished rights that the real military risked something to defend and maintain a clear separation between civilian and military roles and responsibilities. These dress-up camo Kens and Barbies are the actual disgraces. No law enforcement offer should be allowed to wear camo or full face masks except when absolutely necessary in extenuating circumstances with approval, because the routine overuse of these just send a very bad message of a third-world kakistocracy with death squads and a violent, lawless, reckless occupation force/mafia rather than a community service.

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lenerdenator a day ago | parent | prev [-]

We've always been at war with the Midwest.

Or, at least that's what you'd think if you were from the Midwest.

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cafard a day ago | parent [-]

It has been a while since I lived in Ohio (not quite sixty years), but I don't remember us feeling particularly put-upon.

	▲	lenerdenator 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, if sixty years was in the 1960s, yeah, I wouldn't have felt put-upon either. Forty, fifty years? Yeah. Absolutely put-upon, depending upon where it was.