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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They know how to play the propaganda game.

This isn't a propaganda win. Its simply a pretext for what they wanted and had the power to do anyway. Propaganda win would be if there was universal popular support for Kirk, and there wasn't before and simply isn't now. Most people didn't even know who Kirk was before this.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

I really wish they'd show more clips of him. Maybe people unfamiliar with him with a couple of brain cells to rub together might realise 'wait, we're deifying that idiot?'

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

And your point? Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill. Roll the propaganda machine!

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And your point?

I guess I thought my point was clear in my first sentence. "This isn’t a propaganda win."

Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill.

They don't need a pretext either. They've already enacted draconian policies against monitory groups based upon race and against LGBTQ folks. They needed no rational pretext for those. They didn't need one for any other horrible things they're going to do in the future. They would do those things anyway.

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