Intent, mindfulness, and informed decision making?

I mean, knowing that something is technically propaganda does not make it wrong or make it taboo to repeat. The word has a negative connotation because it's typically used to describe the "other" guys, sure, but its meaning is very broad.

If I were to say the phrase "fuck Nestle" or even just the term "DeGoogle" one could correctly label those as anti-corporate propaganda with an agenda to harm the interests of an untold number of shareholders. Heck, thanks to broadly diversified 401k investment fund options, I am probably one of them and future me could lose entire dollars.

Is anybody on Lemmy going to shake their finger at me for repeating those two pieces of targeted, agenda-driven propaganda though? I certainly don't feel icky for saying it. I bet I could even say something negative about the president of the united states without feeling embarrassed. :]

The trick is, every-time it looks like someone other than Russia is behind it, you just have to argue that Russia is secretly being them!

You understand the difference between a medium and the content on that medium right?

That's a rhetorical question since you clearly don't.

Cambridge Analytica,

That's British

anti-vax,

Andrew Wakefield, the guy who started the antivax movement, is British

anti-trans,

The US passed laws protecting trans people and many Americans are literally trans or allies. Russia however, is extremely anti-trans.

anti-abortion,

See the above point

anti-immigrant

See the above point, also, America is a country of immigrants and refugees, "Melting Pot," America was one of the first countries to encourage and mobilize massive movements of immigrants, which sheltered them from oppressive governments looking to hurt them. This includes people fleeing from Russia and their wars and genocides like the Holodomor.

Yea naw, my parents watch WeChat short videos and read their BS articles and they constantly regurgitate anti-Democrat rhetorics, and whenever someone gets shot by police, they fucking cheer, the homeless people, anyone with a "mental illness", even George Floyd, they think trials are waste of time and resources, they want the system to just skip the trial and want the suspects dead.

Can't even blame "Americans" for this, the CCP has full control of the content, they clearly aren't censoring it.

WeChat is literally poisoning the Chinese Overseas Diaspora. Its another tentacle of the CCP's power. There's no doubt they also infect social media platforms like facebook, xitter, etc...They sow chaos, and untimately, whatever the CCP does damages the repututation of anyone who is ethnic Chinese or looks ethnic Chinese. They are infaming Sinophobia by being the worse representatives of my people. And all the abuse that I have endured from my parents is from this toxic culture, fuck this "filial piety" BS, fuck conservatism. I've been helping out in my parents bussiness, and they still say I'm useless. I really wanna go back in time and shoot confucious for inventing the stupid ass religion, fuck your 孝順, its literally parental indoctrination to control their children. Evil ass shit. Fuck confucious.

Nvm

Yes, the solution to America's problems is more centralized government control of information, to make sure that those evil ruskies can't corrupt our pure bodily fluids internet.

...yes. you have access to search engines

Hehe .ml user being defensive