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Christy's avatar

Yes, publishing something makes it true and not just more propaganda

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

It can still be propaganda. It made an impression. I had visions of too many people being accosted with free bumper stickers and signs for the yards. I feel like if I post truth about what is happening right now, most of my friends tune me out. They prefer the posts of kittens and cliched aphorisms.

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Christy's avatar

That’s how propaganda works. It makes an impression. That one POV is now what you believe even though I shared that it is not what I experienced being from here and living here. We are all influenced by what we hear and read. Learning how to sort out the truth from a given situation is a challenge. It’s also well known that’s why some give up and stop trying. Scholars of authoritarianism have long warned that is the purpose of the lies and the chaos.

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