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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 9, 2017, 10:21 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Enjoy another blast I sent Azozeo for posting
propaganda baloney at the Doomstead Diner.
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Keep showing your TRUE right wing attempts to take the heat off
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That's why I don't post much here anymore. There is so much
disingenuous double talking right wing propaganda BULLSHIT being
spewed here that it is nauseating.
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What you SHOULD BE posting about, if you had an OUNCE of
objectivity, is THIS:
[quote]Trump has gone to great lengths to protect Flynn, likely
because the latter has information that would incriminate the
president. It took Trump 18 days to fire Flynn after learning of
his lies to Pence. Trump leaned heavily on Comey to look the
other way in the Flynn investigation and fired Comey when he
refused to let Flynn go.
It was the firing of Comey that led to the appointment of
special counsel Mueller.[/quote]
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But you just DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, DO YOU, Az?
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 12, 2017, 7:17 pm
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[font=times new roman]WAR IS A CRIME
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[center]Troopaganda Eats Its Own Tail[/center]
NOVEMBER 12, 2017 BY DAVID SWANSON
SNIPPET:
First they tell you what to think the wars are for. They’re for
protection from evil enemies, for spreading democracy and human
rights.
Then you discover that wasn’t so. The evil enemies were actually
human beings and no threat. The wars on terrorism have created
many more enemies and spread terrorism far and wide. They’ve
endangered rather than protected. They’ve damaged democracy at
home and abroad. They’ve violated human rights and normalized
their violation.
Then they tell you to keep the wars going for the sake of the
poor fools sent into them and coming out of them with PTSD,
brain injury, moral injury, and suicidal tendencies. If you’re
not for harming more troops you’re “against” the troops.
Then you discover that this is all a twisted lie, that these
one-sided slaughters that so devastate even the aggressors have
no benefits, that people could have better and better-paying and
more satisfying and less environmentally destructive jobs in
peaceful industries for less financial, moral, and societal
expense. It turns out the wars are for weapons profits and
resource control and political domination and sadism.
Then they tell you...
Full EXCELLENT article:
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 13, 2017, 7:44 pm
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November 13, 2017
[center]Co-Author of 'Manufacturing Consent', Edward S. Herman,
Dies at 92[/center]
TRNN Replay: On the occasion of the passing of author and friend
of the Real News Network Edward S. Herman, we replay our
interview from the 25th anniversary of 'Manufacturing Consent',
that he co-authored with Noam Chomsky
July 1, 2012
[center]Ed Herman, Co-Author of "Manufacturing Consent" Pt
1[/center]
[center]Ed Herman, who wrote the famous book with Noam Chomsky,
looks back at his life and what formed his thinking about the
world[/center]
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[center]Ed Herman on "Humanitarian Imperialism" Pt 2[/center]
[center]Edward Herman: The development of humanitarian
intervention as a concept is essentially an overthrow of
international law[/center]
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[center]Ed Herman on Global Finance Pt 3[/center]
[center]Ed Herman: We've been in a period in which the power of
finance extends into politics more aggressively than it ever
was, so it's able to stymie any changes[/center]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 15, 2017, 6:09 pm
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/>Agelbert NOTE: Learn WHY the NAME of Trump was continually
paraded before the media (and other places ALL OVER THE INTERNET
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/>before the election.
Also learn why, AFTER the election, that continues to be the
case. Even when the news is negative, the old advertising saying
about "all news is good news" (for product sales) applies to
mindfork propaganda on behalf of the Trump demagogue too.
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The clever Orwellian BASTARDS doing this have a method to their
madness. It consists of repeatedly activating the most
impressionable part of our cognitive hardware so we will be
imprinted with an unconscious bias in favor of the politician
making the greatest noise.
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People that possess critical thinking skills do not fall for
this. Unfortunately, most Americans lack those skills. That is
why they get suckered election after election.
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The ones that don't get suckered are carefully and methodically
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/>being denied the vote by being forced to go through bullshit
red tape hoops.
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Trump is not your father. Trump is a THIEF who is, not just
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If you want a clear head, TUNE OUT TRUMP BULLSHIT!
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A famous author has theorized conservatives and progressives
into two camps, one based on a strict, authoritarian view of the
world and the next based on a nurturing view, where do these
camps lead us?
Thom Hartmann Nov. 14, 2017 2:30 pm
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 16, 2017, 12:22 pm
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Let's hear the screams to resign please. Hello, Hello, let's
hear them now.
Must be going deaf. ::)
Woman accuses Al Franken of kissing, groping her without consent
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A TV host and sports broadcaster on Thursday accused Sen. Al
Franken (D-Minn.) of kissing and groping her without her consent
in 2006.
The incident happened in December 2006, she said, when she and
Franken, then a comedian, were on a USO Tour to "entertain our
troops."
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/>while he keeps robbing you blind, GO.
I guess it is just too hard for you to admit that you made a
tragic and unprincipled mistake by voting for the most egregious
example of mysogeny, sexual harrassment, bigotry, racism and
profit over planet greed that has ever cursed this God Forsaken
nation.
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You have had fully one year to recognize your mistake. Crooks
and ciars named by Trump to all key government positions during
the last year has revealed the true nature of Trump and his
wrecking crew to anyone with a shred of objectivity.
Only someone who refuses to alter his position, even when new
objective, irrefutable evidence requires it, can remain loyal to
someone like Trump. Not changing one's position when new
information warrants it is the textbook definition of a bigot.
The Holy Scriptures, however, do not label such a person as a
bigot; the Bible has another label for them:
[move][font=courier]Proverbs 13 King James Version (KJV) 19 The
desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination
to fools to depart from evil. 20 He that walketh with wise men
shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be
destroyed.[/font][/move]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 16, 2017, 1:17 pm
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[center]16 Women and Donald Trump [img
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This is serious. Sexual harassment is pervasive and happens at
the very top of the institutions that run this country. We owe
it to all women to hold men, especially those with immense
power, accountable for their actions. Yes, this includes the
president too.
In the video, 16 Women and Donald Trump, we put together the
stories of women who have reported being sexually harassed or
sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. Seeing these women’s
stories, one after another, is incredibly powerful – it's time
to listen and act accordingly. As a society, we need to do a
better job of holding men liable for harassment and abusive
behavior. And we have a right to hear these women's their
stories even as the mainstream news outlets dismiss them and the
White House deflects responsibility for them. It's time to
disrupt the powers that silence the voices of women in all of
our institutions. Please share this video to remind the nation
that Hollywood isn't the only place abuse happens and that our
current president isn’t immune to being held
accountable.[/quote]
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Agelbert NOTE: Expect Trumpers like G.O. (and others here who
cleverly do not admit to having voted Republican, EVEN THOUGH
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distraction they can come up with in order to provide COVER for
the Criminal in Chief and his racist, mysogenist, profit over
planet wrecking crew.
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/>worship GREED. They do not care about ANYTHING evil or illega
l
that Trump and his wrecking crew do, or have done, as long as
Trump feeds their GREED.
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[quote][font=times new roman]"Capitalist ideology claims that
the world is perfectly ordered and everybody is in their place
(i..e. everybody gets what they deserve). This self legitmating
aspect of Capitalism is Socially Catastrophic. This is the
Victorian view of the world." Rob Urie - Author " Zen
Economics"[/font][/quote]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 21, 2017, 1:36 pm
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date=1511145607]
[quote author=azozeo link=topic=10414.msg141306#msg141306
date=1511137482]
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Probably not.
From the article:
[quote]Moreover, there is not one word of Marines landing at
Langley, appearing in _any_ US mass-media outlet.[/quote]
Source: "The Hal Turner Radio Show."
The tell was "Uranium One," which the drooling right has been
flowing in the same way a serial masturbator rubs his dick raw.
And with a similar result.
So let's check out the page for "The Hal Turner Radio Show."
Top 3 Alabama Newspapers Run FRONT PAGE Editorials Against Roy
Moore - But all 3 Papers are **owned** by Advance Publications
in New York City ! ! !
The liberal fix must be in, right? These are the same
professional victims who complain about "pedophiler rings" who
are shilling for a serial creeper and accused pedo.
It's not "White Privilege" it is IQ
No comment needed.
The "Too Stupid" "Too Ignorant" and "Too Corrupt" are STILL
Saying "I just Can't figure out WHY Hillary Lost the Election .
. . . " Here's some help for the stupid, the ignorant and the
corrupt
Right. Easy-to-chew Hannity colon-nuggets, served up to you just
in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Fact-check a motherfucker, willya?
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date=1511264060]
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What are you, the 4th Reich of truth & bullshit.
Thoughts are electric, emotions are magnetic...
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And shitposting is shitposting.
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AZ, Surly is a man of integrity and truth. I consider him a
loyal member of the Cat Herders Association that I belong to.
Cat Herders are always trying to get the bullshitters among us
to try truth instead of negative noises designed to distract
people from the important issues of our time. It is a a very bad
idea to challenge him and a very good advice to listen to what
he says.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 22, 2017, 12:47 pm
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You deserve all the sunshine I can send your way for all the
sunshine of truth you send all of us.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: November 23, 2017, 2:40 pm
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I first encountered McLuhan as an undergraduate in communication
back during the last ice age. Interesting to be reminded how he
anticipated the implications of then-technological changes, when
at the time it read, at least to be, as improbable nonsense.
This writer is addressing themes that occur to me, but which are
too elusive for me to be competent to write about. One of the
attributes of getting older being the you see your own ignorance
in sharp relief.
[center]RE: INTO THE MAELSTROM: HOW THE HYPERCONNECTED AGE IS
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Surly,
In the above, otherwise well written, article, there is a
problem of perception that I first ran into in college when I
was taking Social Sciences at Miami Dade Junior College (1965)
shortly after I left West Point.
We were assigned to read a book (The Lonely Crowd) that you may
have read, although I am certain the right wing 'greed is good'
fanatics that frequent this site have never heard of it, no
matter how much college or education they claim to have.
[quote]The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David
Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. It is considered,
along with White Collar: The American Middle Classes, written by
Riesman's friend and colleague, C. Wright Mills, a landmark
study of American character.[1]
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I read it. I did NOT just read the Cliff Notes. Beyond the
snippet I just gave you from wikipedia, I did not review the
book I read so many years ago to impress anybody here. I am
responding to the article because that instantly retrieved "The
Lonely Crowd" out of long term storage in my memory banks.
Here's the deal, Surly. A person is either driven by outside
influences (peer pressure) or he is not. Yes, we all have a
mixture of influences, both from without, and from within, that
govern our behavior. But the ASSUMPTION that we are invariably
governed by peer pressure is only valid if peer pressure ALWAYS
overrides personal principles. Now, those Social Darwinst
fascists at the helm of the media corporations that want to
control our every whim probably believe that.
I do not. And you should not. A shi t sandwich disguised as a
chocolate chip cookie is still a shi t sandwich, even if 40,000
bought and paid for bullshit artists are telling you otherwise.
What this boils down to is perception. The media fascists are
attempting, as our gooberment and happy talk propaganda based
social institutions have ALWAYS been trying to do (SEE: The
Lonely Crowd), the "join the in crowd" con. They want us to feel
"left out" if we do not do what "everybody else is doing".
But you and I know that everybody else is NOT "doing that". The
polling of the American public makes it CRYSTAL CLEAR that they
are on the right side of almost every issue of importance and
value to an egalitarian socialist type government structure.
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AND, most people, except for the allegedly big brained right
wingers (like some who post here, who claim most people in the
USA are ignorant rubes that swallow any bullshit, no matter how
much it harms their best interests - how convenient for the
right wing profit over people and planet Capitalist bastards.),
DO REALIZE they are being handed a daily SHI T sandwich by the
media and the gooberment.
Yeah, divide and conquer is what is going on. Yeah, they want to
tear us apart. Yeah, they want to use the PERCEPTION (totally
FALSE, but very convincing through bought and paid for
repetition) that people who are guided by principle and not by
the mob are outliers (i.e.
anti-American/anti-Capitalist/Communists, etc. ad nauseum).
True, we all want to belong. But anyone who is willing to
sacrifice their principles in order to "belong" is part of the
problem, not part of the solution.
The article gives way to much weight to our need for peer group
acceptance and ZERO weight to every average human's daily
objective analysis of what is genuinely good for an individual
and the society that he lives in (i.e. PRINCIPLED behavior).
I am not a Maslow robot. If the author believes that we humans,
who certainly do possess base instincts that can, under certain
conditions, be manipulated to our detriment and some bastard's
profit (i.e. Capitalism), CANNOT function in any other way (i.e.
Social Darwinsm is IT), then I must protest.
Social Darwinsim is NOT "IT". Maslow is NOT "IT".
We behave on principle or we perish. That is not hard to
understand unless a person deliberately refuses to value
principles because they deliberately refuse to give any value to
morality based behavior. The book I read in college, The Lonely
Crowd, TOTALLY missed the issue of principle. I said so then,
even though I was an atheist at the time! LOL!
Yeah, I know Surly; I'm an outlier.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: December 19, 2017, 4:30 pm
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December 19, 2017
[center]How Did We Wind Up in a Post-Truth World? And What Can
Be Done About It? [/center]
From coal’s astroturfing online to an artificial intelligence’s
both-sides equivocation, when we talked about denial in the age
of AI last week, things didn’t look promising. Fortunately, the
December issue of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and
Cognition is here! It’s a special edition, focused on a lengthy
article and featuring nine responses, all offering some help
navigating misinformation in the post-truth age, with an eye
towards technology.
Given the importance of the matter and depth of the research,
and that all but the initial paper are behind a paywall, this
will be the first in a rare three-part roundup. We felt it
fitting to end this post-truth year with a rumination on our
post-truth past.
Our journey through the truthiness landscape starts with a
target article by Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K.H.Ecker and
John Cook, summarizing the state of scholarship regarding how
the public deals with misinformation and offering some
suggestions about how to address the problem.
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/>authors argue that key to surviving in this new “post-truth”
landscape is “technocognition,” or the combination of
psychological principles and technological solutions.
For those who want a crash course in the tenets Lewandowsky,
Ecker and Cook’s piece is based on, see The Debunking Handbook.
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/>But the three authors move past the summary to a much more
interesting analysis: they argue that American society must
look at the socio-political context of fake news to fully
understand its impacts and solutions, expanding the current
focus from online interactions to the full IRL experience.
“The post-truth problem is not a blemish on the mirror,” they
write. Instead, “the problem is that the mirror is a window into
an alternative reality.” In this reality, elites and their
evidence, like the multiple independent lines of research
proving climate change is caused by human activities, are cast
aside in favor of socially shared alt-news. The election of
Donald Trump shows just how these misinformation ecosystems have
moved from the fringe corners of the internet into the
mainstream.
But the creation of these new realities is not a bipartisan
problem: rather, it’s a curiously conservative phenomenon.
Whether it’s a NASA-run child slave colony on Mars or the
decades-old conspiracy around the UN’s plans for a global
government or climate change being a Chinese hoax, the authors
advise on the need to consider misinformation through “the lens
of political drivers that have created an alternative
epistemology that does not conform to conventional standards of
evidentiary support.”
This is a fancy way of saying that sometimes conservative
leaders just make bullshit up and people believe them. While
this reckoning may seem new, the authors demonstrate that it’s
been a long time coming (Karl Rove’s admission that the Bush
administration actors “create[d] our own reality” is a
particularly poignant example). The authors’ reference that
Republicans “have moved towards the right in a manner
unprecedented since the 1880s” follows with the fact that the
right appears to be more susceptible to the pseudo-profound
bullshit philosophical nonsense we’ve talked about before.
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One important effect of creating alternate realities on social
media, the authors explain, is the invention of intense,
imaginary conflict. Did scientists really discuss manipulating
data in hacked emails? Of course not, but arguing about it makes
for good TV! Fanning the hot flames of these conflicts, in turn,
pushes politicians towards extremism. While nominees have
traditionally hewed to the center for the largest possible share
of votes, modern politicians now focus on their echo chamber to
rile up the base. In this new post-truth world, “lying is not
only accepted, it is rewarded,” Lewandowsky, Ecker and Cook
write. “Falsifying reality is no longer about changing people's
beliefs, it is about asserting power.”
These concepts make it crystal clear that climate denial is not
an attempt to build a base of knowledge contrary to the
consensus. Rather, the authors write, climate denial is “a
political operation aimed at generating uncertainty in the
public's mind in order to preserve the status quo and to delay
climate-change mitigation.”
So how do we get people (conservatives) to care about truth and
reality again? Technocognition might just have some answers.
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But, uh… what is that? Mind melds with a Mac? Uploading our
consciousness into the Matrix? Studying climate change while
listening to the latest techno jams? Tune in tomorrow to find
out!
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