• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    In regards to Stop the Steal, it just shows us that propaganda works. Allowing liars and deceivers a mouthpiece means they can spread their message far and wide. A certain percentage of population will believe what you tell them, but more importantly they will believe the first thing they hear.

    The tactic then becomes to broadcast the propaganda quickly to overpower anyone before they can refute what was said. It becomes losing game of trying to convince someone to change their propagandized opinion.

    Needless to say using psychology to manipulate people should be illegal. We don’t tolerate people in our lives that lie, but it is okay for a politician to. Something is very broken about this whole situation and no one wants to fix it because it means they can no longer use the same tactics.

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      12 days ago

      Allowing liars and deceivers a mouthpiece means they can spread their message far and wide.

      Freedom of speech doesn’t mean they’re entitled to a megaphone, let alone a 100Kw PA system.

      Needless to say using psychology to manipulate people should be illegal.

      Anyone using rhetorical tricks is doing that implicitly. That’s unenforceable. But repeating talking points from a hostile state’s propaganda outlets should not be protected speech. That’s acting as an agent of a foreign power.