• @disguy_ovahea
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    1194 months ago

    That’s the point of his bad news smokescreen. There was such turbulence in the media throughout his entire presidency that the majority of the real damage he has done was only noticed by people who actively seek out information. It’s a brilliant way to obfuscate his agenda from the eyes of the passively informed.

    • @Sanctus
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      564 months ago

      Its the Russian stratagem. Flood the air waves with anything and everything. Call what’s true false and what’s false true. Now consensus reality no longer exists.

      • Codex
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        234 months ago

        I guess I’m going fully red-string crazy because yeah, we’ve been under a russian propaganda storm for years now and like… why does the cia just let them? I think we have to recognize that the global information apparatus is allied against the ignorant public, their mutual targets.

        • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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          224 months ago

          Because we were already in one of the hugest propaganda storms in human history, and the Russians just started using the American apparatus effectively.

          It’s not like Noam Chomsky hasn’t been talking about this for decades

          • @Aqarius
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            24 months ago

            This. “This is a Russian stratagem” is the same level of oblivious as the guy in the image.

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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              44 months ago

              The difference between the Russian strategem and the preceding “normal operation” was that normally consent was manufactured through capture of the news media, and selective airing of stories.

              The novelty of what the Russians doing is that they don’t need to control what gets said, they just shout gibberish louder than anyone else. Not that a lot of Western interests didn’t start doing the same as well.

              • @Aqarius
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                14 months ago

                It’s just the logical continuation of the Fox model - if your stories aren’t internally consistent, but the audience still buys it because the want to believe, and change day to day, but the audience still buys it because the want to believe, the next step is to make separate channels and pump out stories that conflict with eachother, simultaneously, and let the audience pick whichever version they like best.

        • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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          4 months ago

          How can the secret service let a 20y/o survalence a presidential candidates campaign site; see the guy with a view finder scope out the building your snipers are in; then let him grab his gun and climb in the building you are in?

          Our law enforcement is about as useful as a pool noodle.

          Spend some time looking into true crime. Crimes go unsolved not because the murders are geniuses. 9 out of 10 our law enforcement is incompetent.

    • masterofn001
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      74 months ago

      Flood the zone with shit

      ~ Steve “I’ll take a bath when I’m dead” Bannon

      • @RizzRustbolt
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        24 months ago

        Now its Steve “I’ll take a shower when the guards tell me to” Bannon.