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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldwe need more users
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    10 hours ago

    The reason why you haven’t seen these horrors is because to you they just look like others like you.

    Regardless if you agree with this post, for example, it’s propaganda, no different than the american apologists you can accurately identify, the bible thumpling catholics educating the uncivilized people that hadn’t heard the healing words of our lord and saviour jesus christ or those who believe everything should be privatized/converted into a free market due to orthodox economic doctrine.

    It is propaganda because it operates under the framework that someone who disagrees with a positive association must have not understood a specific sacred text or heard a sacred doctrine, or if they have they must be morally defficient, leaving no room for debate whatsoever.

    It’s extremely difficult to identify propaganda that caters to our own emotional needs and positive associations.

    One of the easiest ways to spot propaganda is the “no room for questioning, let alone disagreeing” aspect. In healthy societies with healthy ideologies there is a legitimate space for disagreement and debate. If there wasn’t, power would always remain in the same hands which is one of the aspects most criticize about both capitalism and communism.

    And believe it or not, there is more to the world than the right-left west-east dychotomies.

    If you look at history, similar ideologigal schisms have happened time and time again in times of shifts in the balance of power, such as when the printing press was invented and the the catholic - lutheran division that came from it. or during the decadence and later fall of the roman republic with the equestrials vs patricians (which originally shared ideological vision).

    These largescale violent power struggles always end up boiling down to “you’re either with us or against us” which in my opinion is the true poison.

    Feel free to disqualify or label me now and have a nice day.