• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    The more I read about what’s in some of these files (e.g. a report about Trump being present while a 13yo rape victim’s newborn baby was thrown into lake Michigan), the more I’m starting to think it was intentional.

    The people who had to go through this shit to redact it might be fascist pieces of shit, but they’re still ostensibly in fields at least somewhat related to law enforcement. Having to read shit like that, and then be complicit in covering it up… I dunno.

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      4 hours ago

      You may never have heard of the AAAA, the Advertisers Against Advertising Alliance…


      Imagine a cigarette-company wants some advertising-work done…

      Imagine that you’re dead set against cigarette-companies, but they don’t know that…

      Imagine getting the contract, & doing advertising-design for them, where they get an advertising-campaign which to them looks good, but … doesn’t work on people

      Imagine that that is exactly what you had intended…

      No card-carrying, no meetings, no visible-connections: only independent people contributing independently.

      ( I suspect that the drugstore “Life” brand, at Shopper’s Drug Mart was done by a member of the AAAA: NOBODY with health-sense would buy that shit, as a result of the campaign they had, years ago, when I lived in a city )


      Now remap it from AAAA to someone ordered to redact evil, to protect the regime against accountability…

      Imagine you know exactly that this highlighting-with-black won’t work…

      Imagine that this is exactly why you use the method: to protect accountability, in a dying-empire’s deathspasms…

      It then becomes possible to “do one’s job” & be complicit within the regime ( but notice those falsifying-quotes! ),

      while one protects integrity, Justice, & accountability, by doing one’s “job” in a way which enables actual-Journalism, should there be any left, to dig-in…


      Beauty, eh?

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        8 hours ago

        The important thing is “adequately”. Sometimes the reality can make it improbable.

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          10 hours ago

          It’s always held true for me. Malice - or forethought - require intelligence, something that’s in much shorter supply than anybody would believe.

          Stupid usually explains most everything adequately.

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          9 hours ago

          Is it, though? Has the system been keeping us down, or are the ppl in charge just stupid and greedy? Assigning intent makes the unfairness sting less.

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            4 hours ago

            Has the system been keeping us down, or are the ppl in charge just stupid and greedy?

            This is a false choice, it’s both. Not all of them are (or were) stupid. But the system is intentionally like this because people are greedy. For money and power.

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      10 hours ago

      Hold. What. Where do I find this, please?

      I’ve read of the copy/paste unredacting but I’ve yet to read them.