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jaybrendansmith ◴[] No.44089027[source]
This is the last time I felt the power of the propaganda machine. (The most recent time was the 2024 election) It was so obvious to myself and my friends that this was completely cooked up intelligence. And yet the truth was not getting out, and had fooled many people with this strange groupthink, almost like a dumb, braying herd animal, where the collective intelligence was utterly ambushed and tied up in a sack. I don't like feeling powerless, yet I have this feeling that our voices have been smothered of late, destroyed by ridiculous talking points.
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1. ahartmetz ◴[] No.44097085[source]
I was also puzzled about the low quality of the lies and how little they were challenged at the time. I watched that presentation with the trucks - wow that was bad. As if it was being sabotaged on purpose by people who didn't want to do it. But it worked anyway!
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2. ahartmetz ◴[] No.44097159[source]
By the way, there's a decent quality German (but most of the talking is in English) docu-drama about the intelligence campaign, it's called Curveball.