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Reposted from My Substack So just before this year’s Superbowl, you had tons of rumors of how Chief’s tight end Travis Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift was part of a psyops operation against MAGAs who would announce her support for President Biden...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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The Guardian: People at the extrinsic end of the spectrum are more attracted to prestige, status, image, fame, power and wealth. They are strongly motivated by the prospect of individual reward and praise. They are more likely to objectify and exploit...
by tln41
on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 08:14 PM PST
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Reposted from My Substack Over the New Year’s holiday, the Right-wing became amazingly triggered by Punk Pop Group Green Day changing one word in their seminal protest song “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:30 AM PST
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War Porn The channel, which boasts of "exclusive content from the Gaza Strip" and has published over 700 posts, images and videos of terrorists being killed and of destruction in the Strip, encourages its 5,300 followers to share the content so that...
by LaFeminista
on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 04:32 AM PST
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In my exploration of fascism as a social movement, I came to the conclusion some time ago that propaganda is not only the vehicle of its message and its driver of activity but is actually the end goal. In that way, it is akin to a perpetual motion...
by novapsyche
on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 12:34 PM PDT
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/...
by itwasniceknowingyouamerica
on Tue Aug 09, 2022 at 07:01 PM PDT
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I hate it when right wing, PSYOPS, propagandists successfully contaminate beautiful words with specially designed malice. It reminds me of George Orwell's, 1984 where love means hate and peace means war. Take the word “Grooming.” It’s a beautiful word...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
on Thu Aug 04, 2022 at 07:02 PM PDT
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Putin is obviously not getting the splendid little war he anticipated. He obviously thought the citizens of Ukraine would be stunned into a stupor. He meant to amass such an overwhelming force militarily that it would translate into the minds of the...
by novapsyche
on Tue Mar 01, 2022 at 03:24 PM PST
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Fascism is based in psychological warfare. The Republicans sell lies to manipulate public opinion, and have since Reagan’s trickle-down and tax cuts pay for themselves. That was based on psychological manipulation used in tobacco ads — “More doctors...
by tln41
on Thu Feb 10, 2022 at 09:54 AM PST
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I generally try to keep from writing and posting diaries in the middle of the night, but as a writer I know that the urge to write, that demand from the subconscious, is one to heed, despite the contents of the clock. The last few days have been...
by novapsyche
on Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 01:23 AM PST
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Reported by Local CBS station out of Raleigh that covers Cumberland County News. www.cbs17.com/… Commanders at Fort Bragg are reviewing Captain Emily Rainey’s involvement in last week’s events in the nation’s capital, but she said she acted within...
by alamancedem
on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 04:33 AM PST
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President Donald Trump reversed his talking points 180 degrees on the Coronavirus from weeks of saying it is handled, not a big deal and a hoax, to days later declaring a national emergency, invoking the War Powers act, and declaring himself a “wartime...
by FreedomofMind
on Wed Apr 08, 2020 at 01:44 PM PDT
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So I wrote a comment yesterday about Twitter TrollBots on one of the threads and someone said I should turn it into a diary. And as we get closer and closer to the election, it’s important for every one of us who identify as Democrats, Progressives,...
by CyberMindGrrl
on Tue Jul 30, 2019 at 09:11 AM PDT
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In May, 2017, The Guardian published an investigation by journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who was no small force in bringing down Cambridge Analytica. That investigation looked closely at the connection between those pushing for Brexit and billionaires in...
by subtropolis
on Thu Nov 08, 2018 at 07:52 PM PST
with 37 Recommends
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A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton,...
by subir
on Mon Oct 08, 2018 at 04:25 PM PDT
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In the flurry of news today about the dreadful misdeeds of the despicable Brett Kavanaugh and the high wire walking of Rod Rosenstein, this Jane Mayer article in the latest issue of the New Yorker didn’t seem to get the attention it deserves. ...
by ARodinFan
on Mon Sep 24, 2018 at 06:03 PM PDT
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We realized years ago that we could not win the Gerrymander War in the House, that state legislative Republicans were entrenched, and that a victory for Hillary would only bring grief as Capitol Hill Republicans would obstruct relentlessly and...
by TJoz
on Fri Aug 25, 2017 at 08:34 AM PDT
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Matt Taibbi, who is well-known for his articles exposing Wall Street corruption, just did a stirring defense of Brietbart, who is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He claims that it’s free speech as an issue to defend,...
by TrumpResistance
on Sun Mar 26, 2017 at 05:36 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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There’s a disturbing story at The Guardian detailing how wing nut billionaire Robert Mercer (Kos post by Freeraven) has used technology to weaponize the info sphere. As more and more people turn to the Internet, social media, twitter for news and away...
by xaxnar
on Mon Mar 06, 2017 at 09:36 AM PST
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Imagine the Trump administration runs into some serious political turbulence, perhaps a serious Congressional investigation, perhaps a piece of legislation important to the Russians, or perhaps a rising political star challenging Trump in the future...
by citixen
on Sat Dec 10, 2016 at 01:21 PM PST
with 11 Recommends
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