Steep price for #sacredactivism speaking #truthtopower in today's Russia
From jail, she predicts fall of totalitarian regime
From jail, she predicts fall of totalitarian regime
#TrumpVirus contagion still alive & well in #DeathSantis/#GQP land. Sad. Sick.
Finally we are returning to #truth and #law and so the #seditionist choir are screaming to stop, & that the enemy is OUR FBI. Law.
I can't believe I'm saying this but G-d Bless Liz Cheney! She has nothing to lose & has gained a lot of respect, regardless of history, affiliation. etc. She sees #truth and speaks it to #corrupt power, AKA the #GQP / #Fox disinformation, division, & hate machine.
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I generally avoid giving disinformational propaganda any platform at all. Others ... don't always see that way, and I often find this frustrating and distracting. The goal of such propaganda is to weaken focus, engender confusion, and derail conversations. And it frequently succeeds in doing just this.
A recent discussion provides a counterexample, in which the propaganda talking points are demolished one by one, revealing them for the void apologia they are. I'm rephrasing slightly here, with the statements as third--level headings:
Rather than focus on the present conflcit, aggression, and violation of all international norms, standards, and treaties, this attack attempts to relitigate history. History isn't being litigated, the present is. Moreover, demanding that all be dictated terms by dead men of some past age ... with all the questions over which men and which age (and yes, it's virtually always men) ... only begs the question (in the true sense of that fallacy) of which past authorities should be considered.
Again, the is a naked attempt to distract from the present and appeal to the past. A past, for what it's worth, which includes the overtly genocidal actions of the Soviet era to whose greatness Putin has been appealing over past days, weeks, months, and years, in which tens of millions were killed, starved, and/or imprisoned and enslaved.
Yes, there are other examples of genocides from other parties, including states of the West. I've mentioned several of those within recent months myself, here. Those genocides are acknowledged. Those are not the topic under discussion.
This one addresses straight up falsehood, dismisses it, and points to the overt hypocrisy and bald-faced nature of the lie.
The genius of this response is that it makes clear that shields, as with missile defences, are reactive responses to acts of aggression and would not be relevant at all absent that aggression.
No, you're not going to change the mind of a paid propaganda agent or indoctrinated useful idiot. But you will greatly blunt the effectiveness of their message.
Keep in mind too that propaganda relies heavily on the Big Lie. It's statements or assertions absurd on their face, repeated endlessly. This means that the arguments change and adapt relatively slowly, and are used in mass. Being able to rebut or pre-but the arguments greatly reduces their effectivenss, and those living in regimes of law, information, and media where we are able to do so with minimal risk or consequence for speaking truth to power should and are morally obligated to do so.
h/t @tom grzyb
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