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  • As you say, tools are just tools. Even a dumb phone and CD players are “technology.” You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to break into a house and kill the owner. The tool itself really doesn’t hold any sin.

    Some people prefer to use older tools, though. It often gives them more of a feeling of connection, especially if we’re talking about the things they grew up with. So, there’s nothing wrong with choosing older technology just because you feel like it, either.








  • this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news

    That’s not the type of misleading that qualifies as propaganda. It has to be misleading in a way that pushes their agenda.

    this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.

    This is a fight you started by saying that my original comment was me not being immune to propaganda. If you think it’s stupid, then you should have chosen more correct words.


  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldICE = modern day Brownshirts
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    Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.

    It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.

    Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.




  • “How to avoid I.C.E.” Notice how it doesn’t say, “How to safely get through an encounter with I.C.E.”

    It’s always interesting how much people’s specific choice of words betrays their true feelings. The only reasonable goal with ICE is to avoid them, because once you encounter them, your safety cannot be guaranteed, no matter the circumstances.

    Also, it’s quite a laugh for a Trump supporter to suggest that people should “Obey federal and state laws.” Trump doesn’t even think he should have to follow the Constitution, which is the basis upon which all of those state and federal laws can be enforced.

    They’re complaining about other people accidentally breaking a building’s windows while they’re intentionally destroying its foundation.