2020 Campaign Disinformation (Propaganda) Thread

Great idea for a thread.

The people and groups that create this type of material are despicable.

 

Wait, couldn't you start with the whole Ukraine scam job? Especially given how it's sucked the entire Republican party into it.

 

does this count? need a ruling

 

I don't believe Tom Hanks is running for anything, but perhaps this is a good example of political disinformation (liz crokin is a contributor to townhall, the "#1 conservative web site").

 

Imagine thinking that there are fine people on the side who initially thought defending Robert E Lee statues is a worthy enough cause to protest and then doesn't do a complete about face when they see the people that are protesting along side them are chanting "Jews won't replace us".

 

The amount of disinformation I see on a daily basis from my Trump loving friends on social media is too much to list. Some of the highlights of just the last week:
1. Illegal aliens killed more than 10,000 Americans in 2019.
2. Obama was in league with Osama Bin Ladin.
3. Muslims are trying to pass a law against dog walking in the US.
4. Virginia is passing a law that outlaws martial arts
5. Virginia is passing a law that outlaws any form of self-defense.

 

Your paradigm or frame of reference is default patriotic propaganda. It's like resting b**** face but instead of a "face", it's national mainstream media discourse, and instead of "b****" it's "pro US propaganda".

How Iranians see the general is more relevant to world news as it's that relationship that determines the course of events to follow.

In neutral politics you have to understand how people outside your bubble think. See, for Iranians, they think US paramilitary spies and commanders are no different than theirs. They go around proxy regions and generate influence through conflict for their respective nations they represent. Hell, Iranians claim they did that to them. So ya, they respect the guy. And ya, them respecting or not respecting the general is going to have influence on how the next set events occur.

 

Yeah I never quite understood the defense that in the larger context, what Trump said was not somehow bad. Republican disinformation propaganda seems to rely on looking at anyone quoting something terrible you said, and not defending yourself, but looking for any sort of change in the verbiage, even a tiny change.

Then you run a counterattack on whoever is criticizing you, claiming they are lying about what you said. This disinformation tactic is tailor made for the Facebook newsfeed era where you never really see the full context of anything. So you can literally believe in this case that Trump never said there were “fine people” in a crowd of neo Nazis who were shouting “Jews will not replace us”.

 

Funny considering there were Trump branded red shoes, if you believe the comments on that Twitter thread. And there are many pictures of Melania wearing red leather shoes. That's what they think links Hanks to pedophilia.

People are crazy.


Hanks should sue these people for slander. That's a tried a true Trump tactic. He threatens to sue people for $100 million a lot.

 

No. The ruling on that one is in. We've seen the whole quote with context. It is despicable. That is in no way exemplary of 'fine people'.

If they showed up to rally with those people and those chants and decided to still participate, that isn't 'fine people' behavior.

Showing up to counter protest those folks is absolutely 'fine people' behavior.

 

What is the outrage here?

He was one of Iran's most revered military leaders.

Why did you post this?

 

sure. How do you define propaganda? That would be helpful.