We have
never objected to — let alone forbidden — any intelligent and civilized discussions here, Vern, so don't talk bullshit.
What we
do forbid here is
propaganda, and just about everything you yourself have been posting here on account of US politics, vaccines, Covid-19 denial and the likes
is outright propaganda and cheerleading,
without any discussion at all.
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prop·a·gan·da
n.
- The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
- Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
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Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies, religious organizations and the media can also produce propaganda.
In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has often been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term.
A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites. Propaganda is now moving into a digital age utillizing bots, algorithms, to create computational propaganda and spread online fake or biased news using social media.
In a 1929 literary debate with Edward Bernays, Everett Dean Martin argues that, “Propaganda is making puppets of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates.”
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have
incessantly and repeatedly been drowning this forum with that exact same old junk, against all of our warnings, and
that is why
you have repeatedly been slapped on the wrist. Had this been
Project Avalon, then you would already long have been banned — not because of the material itself, because
Project Avalon absolutely
loves that kind of stuff — but because of your persistent defiance of the management. Countless other people — myself included — were banned from there for far less, if for any valid reason at all.
If Denise wants to have
an actual discussion about
Orange Jesus™, then she can have it, and then I'm actually
hoping that a
real discussion will take place — a discussion in which Denise's arguments are met with some real opposition instead of the thread becoming a Trump-cheerleading echo chamber like
Project Avalon — but then I myself as an individual am
not going to be stepping into that cesspool again. Given how much attention has already been spent here in our little Shire on the parochial soap opera of US American internal politics and bipartisan cheerleading, I for one simply cannot bear the stench anymore.
All I will say on the matter — as myself, not as the administrator of this forum — is that as far as I'm concerned, Donald Trump is the biggest bag of filth that the inside walls of the White House have ever seen, that I piss on everything the man stands for, and that I
absolutely,
completely and
vehemently disagree with Denise's political views. But I am
not going to step into that turd, and Denise's Trump thread is going on my mental ignore list.
Originally posted by Aragorn
We have never objected to — let alone forbidden — any intelligent and civilized discussions here, Vern, so don't talk bullshit.
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