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  • this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news

    That’s not the type of misleading that qualifies as propaganda. It has to be misleading in a way that pushes their agenda.

    this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.

    This is a fight you started by saying that my original comment was me not being immune to propaganda. If you think it’s stupid, then you should have chosen more correct words.


  • Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.

    It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.

    Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.





  • “How to avoid I.C.E.” Notice how it doesn’t say, “How to safely get through an encounter with I.C.E.”

    It’s always interesting how much people’s specific choice of words betrays their true feelings. The only reasonable goal with ICE is to avoid them, because once you encounter them, your safety cannot be guaranteed, no matter the circumstances.

    Also, it’s quite a laugh for a Trump supporter to suggest that people should “Obey federal and state laws.” Trump doesn’t even think he should have to follow the Constitution, which is the basis upon which all of those state and federal laws can be enforced.

    They’re complaining about other people accidentally breaking a building’s windows while they’re intentionally destroying its foundation.




  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldtoAtheism@lemmy.worldPerfection
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    My ultra religious fundamentalist aunt would support him more if he’s the antichrist. She believes that she’s already “saved” and so she wants the apocalypse to come sooner so that she can be raptured in her lifetime.

    Apparently, she can do whatever awful things she wants to do because she’s already saved and has a free ticket into heaven.

    I think a lot of people underestimate how nutty these people really are.





  • I heard that police are supposed to be trained not to get their bodies in front of moving vehicles.

    Because if you get hit by a car, that’s bad. And because it is escalating the problem. When a police officer stands in front of a vehicle to keep it from moving, they are turning a minor crime into a life-or-death situation.

    This ICE officer did everything wrong, and a woman died because of his mistakes. The woman who died didn’t do everything right, but it’s not her job. She didn’t do anything that deserved a death sentence. The ICE officer, on the other hand…

    When you put completely incompetent, yet completely arrogant people into positions of power, you get situations like this and Venezuela.




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    I don’t know how many times I’ve mentioned this, but there are two religious events that demonstrate God is displeased with people. Floods and plagues. There are more than that, but those are essential. If you were a Christian in 2020, COVID should have been the most obvious portent that God doesn’t like the way things are going in the world.

    If you actually believed in that shit, you would have dumped Trump immediately and never looked back.

    But Christians don’t really believe in the Bible. They believe in whatever their leaders say. They don’t follow the instructions of God. They follow the instructions of corrupt preachers and politicians.

    By their own standards that they usually apply to other people, but not themselves, there would be almost no Christians who have a good afterlife to look forward to.



  • If a car hits something stationary, it is always the driver’s fault, with a few uncommon exceptions, such as if somebody hit the car first, pushing it into that other thing, or if the car in front of them plows into it without slowing down, and they don’t have time to react. It is one of a driver’s most basic responsibilities not to hit something that is just sitting there in the road.