#propaganda — Public Fediverse posts
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Emil Ludwig represents Napoleon as %27ever on the watch for indications of public opinion; always listening to the voice of the people, a voice which defies calculation. ‘Do you know,%27 he said in those days, ‘what amazes me more than all else? The impotence of force to organize anything.%27 --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Fascism is the precise opposite of democracy.
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This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. To deplore the existence of such a mechanism is to ask for a society such as never was and never will be. To admit that it exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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@ebbot 2/2 geographical integration has been supplemented by many other kinds of grouping, so that persons having the same ideas and interests may be associated and regimented for common action even though they live thousands of miles apart. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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As fascism grows more powerful it permits its people less and less liberty and uses more and more violence.
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Amnesty International, and I will swear to you on the religious volume of your choice that I did not deliberately put these articles together: Brazil: Amnesty International experiment exposes Meta’s failure to catch election-related disinformation ads on Facebook . “To investigate how Facebook handled election-related disinformation in advertising, Amnesty International conducted an […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/brazil-amnesty-international-experiment-exposes-metas-failure-to-catch-election-related-disinformation-ads-on-facebook-amnesty-international/ -
The Journal (Ireland): Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn didn’t act on 77% of misinformation reported during Áras race. “SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES failed to act on the vast majority of electoral disinformation reported by researchers ahead of last year’s presidential election, a new report shows. The report also criticised the companies for not demonstrating an understanding of the context […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/the-journal-meta-tiktok-youtube-and-linkedin-didnt-act-on-77-of-misinformation-reported-during-aras-race/ -
In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Must Watch: U.S. Trade Rep Jamieson Greer -vs- Canadian State Controlled Media Rosemary Barton
#censorship #culturalNorms #economics #gameTheory #geopolitics #mindControl #propagandaThis is a must watch interview. Most Americans have no idea that Canadian media is controlled by the Canadian government; it’s what they call “cultural protection” where the rules and regulations of permissible speech are controlled by govt regulators and media are subsidized by govt. The overall objective is to control information and censor viewpoints that might be averse to the interests of the Canadian govt. That’s why most Canadians have no concept of granular details on policy matters; they just don’t get the information.
In this interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is discussing the trade conflict and breakdown with Canada’s version of Baghdad Bob, Rosemary Barton. I’m a little surprised the CBC would even entertain the discussion. However, as noted in the past few days there is increasing skepticism amid Canadians about who and what actually blew up the trade talks. Canadians are starting to show signs of suspicion; enter Ms. Barton on behalf of the Canadian government to try and control things.
USTR Jamieson Greer answers the questions in a most unfortunate manner; meaning, he told the truth. Greer outlined exactly why he suspects the trade talks broke down, and it has nothing to do with economics or trade, it’s all politics on the Canadian side. As Greer noted, there was no change to the trade agreement between President Trump and Prime Minister Carney’s lengthy phone call on Tuesday, and the Canadian decision to walk away on Friday. Greer was being very diplomatic, but Barton started getting the vapors. WATCH:
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Why did I not know that #HongKong wasn't fully #democratic until #China took over? Oh, right, because it was all about #propaganda . Look how terrible this country is. We failed to mention that we did the exact same thing, so it looks like we are the good guys in this ignorance vacuum. -
Un fatto reale. Poi la ripetizione, l’allarme, il nemico, la polarizzazione, la promessa di fermezza. Così può nascere un panico tra le masse: non inventando necessariamente un problema, ma amplificandolo fino a deformarne la percezione e rendere accettabili risposte eccezionali.
Proviamo a ricostruire il meccanismo, passo dopo passo.
Perché la paura è utile a molti, soprattutto quando ci impedisce di chiedere dati, cause e proporzioni. -
The Guardian: AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions. “Donald Trump knows the power of an image – of himself, with everyone from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to Kim Kardashian. How about George Washington? As the US president struggles to end his war with Iran, and with his approval ratings hitting the lowest levels of his second term, he has in recent weeks […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/ai-slopper-in-chief-trump-turns-to-social-media-amid-tough-questions-the-guardian/ -
Question: How could the fascists keep their contradictory promises, once they got in power?
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Aside from this movie from Shapiro and co being obviously Islamophobic, it is a desperate attempt for him to stay relevant. Ben probably thinks he's so brave for this movie. Spreading Zionist lies is not brave, it's pathetic
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/8/27/ben-shapiros-anti-muslim-film-is-nothing-new
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Spectrum News: California lawmakers vote to increase transparency over influencers’ paid political posts. ” The California Senate passed a bill Monday that would fine content creators who don’t disclose they were paid to post in support of a political candidate or issue on the ballot. California, along with Texas, already requires content creators to include payment disclaimers on their […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/spectrum-news-california-lawmakers-vote-to-increase-transparency-over-influencers-paid-political-posts/ -
For the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Fascism is an authoritarian government by the few.
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Why Revolutions Never Die
My dear reader, you have read about the pirates of World War Zero, Túpac Amaru I & II, Haiti, San Martín and Bolívar.
And now, sitting in your chair, scrolling through these stories on a screen, a question rises unbidden:
Where did it all go?
Where are the pirates now? Where are the maroon republics? Where is the Haiti that terrified empires? Where are the liberators, the rebels, the ones who burned and fought and died for freedom? Why does the world feel so settled—so locked down, so hopeless, so impossible to change?
The question is natural.
The Old Way and the New
In the time of Toussaint and Bolívar, empire was a visible thing. You could see it in the uniforms of the soldiers, the walls of the fortresses, the chains on the enslaved. You could fight it—sword against sword, cannon against cannon, flesh against flesh. When the enslaved of Saint-Domingue rose in 1791, they knew exactly who their enemy was: the white planter, the French soldier, the merchant who sold human beings. They could kill that enemy. They did.
The empires of the twenty-first century are different. They have learned.
They have learned that it is cheaper to control minds than to occupy territory. They have learned that a population convinced of its own powerlessness is easier to rule than one that remembers it once fought back. They have learned that the most effective weapon is not the gun but the story—the endless, seamless, suffocating story that says this is the only way things can be.
This story has many voices. They call it news, entertainment, education, information. They deliver it through screens that glow in every pocket, in every home, in every room where a human being sits alone. They have built a machine that never stops talking, that fills every silence, that leaves no space for a different thought to grow.
And in that machine, the rebel becomes a joke. The revolutionary becomes a monster. The one who says “we can be free” becomes a target.
The New Weapons
Imagine for a moment what the Haitian Revolution would look like if it happened today.
The ceremony at Bois Caïman would be filmed on a dozen phones. Within hours, the footage would be everywhere—but not as you might think. It would appear on certain channels with a simple caption: “Cannibal cult prepares human sacrifice.” Experts would appear on news programs, explaining that these people are savages, that they pose a threat to civilization, that something must be done.
When the plantations began to burn, the images would be carefully selected. The burning fields, yes—but also the bodies. Always the bodies. The dead white children, the murdered women, the planters hacked to pieces in their beds. These images would loop endlessly, accompanied by solemn music and the voices of commentators asking: “Is this freedom? Is this what revolution looks like?”
And in the comments sections, beneath every video, every article, every post, the voices would multiply. Some would be real people, frightened and angry. Others would not be people at all. They would be bots, designed to simulate outrage, to drown dissent in a flood of noise, to make anyone who might sympathize with the rebels feel alone, insane, stupid.
“They’re animals.”
“This is why colonialism was necessary.”
“Kill the Slaves.”
“If you support this, you’re a monster too.”
The bots do not sleep. They do not tire. They do not doubt. They simply repeat, and repeat, and repeat, until the weight of their repetition becomes the truth.
And somewhere, a person watches this machine at work and thinks: “What’s the point? They’re too powerful. We can never win. It’s better to just… survive.“
That thought is their goal. That thought is their victory. The machine does not need to kill the rebel. It only needs to convince that rebellion is impossible.
The Assassination of Hope
They have become very good at this.
In the old days, when a revolutionary appeared, they sent soldiers. Now they send journalists, or rather, people who look like journalists. They dig through every moment of the rebel’s life, searching for something—a bad joke, an old argument, a moment of weakness—that can be amplified into a scandal. They find allies and turn them into enemies. They find enemies and turn them into victims. They weave a story so thick, so complex, so overwhelming that the rebel spends all their energy defending themselves instead of building the new world.
And if that fails, there is always the mockery. The internet is a machine for mockery. It can take any ideal, any dream, any hope and reduce it to a meme within hours. (Information war – Woke Witch Hunt)
The revolutionary becomes a cartoon. The revolution becomes a punchline. The young person watching learns not to take anything seriously, because seriousness is a trap, because caring makes you vulnerable, because the only way to survive the mockery is to mock everything yourself.
This is the psychological warfare of the twenty-first century. It does not kill the body. It kills the spirit. It leaves the rebel alive but empty, walking through the motions of life but no longer capable of imagining anything different.
The Old Weapons Still Work
And yet.
And yet, for all their power, for all their screens and bots and algorithms, the new empires have not solved the basic problem that faced the old ones. They have not made the desire for freedom disappear. They have not erased the memory of injustice. They have not convinced the billions who have nothing that they should be content with nothing.
The same conditions that produced Toussaint and Túpac Amaru and the pirates of World War Zero still exist. The gap between rich and poor grows wider every year. The earth itself is burning. The promises of the machine—that if you work hard, if you consume, if you stay in your lane, you will be safe—are revealed as lies, again and again, to more and more people.
And in the cracks of the machine, the fire still burns.
They knows this. That is why propaganda never stops talking. That is why it fills every silence. That is why it must convince you, personally, that you are alone, that your dreams are foolish, that the time for revolution is not now.
Because if you knew how many others were thinking the same thoughts, feeling the same anger, nursing the same hope—if you could see the fire burning in a billion hearts at once—you might realize that you are not alone at all.
No one can predict when or how the next revolution will come. That is the nature of fire. It does not announce itself. It does not follow a plan. It simply appears, somewhere, somehow, and spreads where it can.
Revolutions come when a generation grows up so saturated in lies that the truth becomes a relief, no matter how painful. When people decide they would rather die trying to be free than live forever on their knees.
When that moment comes, their bots will not save them. Their mockery will not save them. Because when human beings decide to die for a cause, they become a force that can change everything.
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As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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...most Americans are vague about just what fascism really means.
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#ChrisHedges | Documenting the U.S. Media’s Complicity in the Genocide of Gaza (w/ Robin Andersen) | TCHR
“If there is one indisputable fact, it is that Israel lies like it breathes.”
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/documenting-the-us-medias-complicity
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Some of the phenomena of this process are criticized—the manipulation of news, the inflation of personality, and the general ballyhoo by which politicians and commercial products and social ideas are brought to the consciousness of the masses. The instruments by which public opinion is organized and focused may be misused. But such organization and focusing are necessary to orderly life. #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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As fascism grows more powerful it permits its people less and less liberty and uses more and more violence.
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Cognitive Dissidence
=================Obama sold us #Obamacare and #healthcare went from complicated & expensive, to complicated, expensive, & mandatory.
Government subsidies ended.
Net result: healthcare is worse than before.There were some benefits to Obamacare, or it would not have passed at all. Some people benefited, though for most others it made #healthcare worse.
People: "We want #UniversalHealthCoverage ! healthcare is too expensive."
Obama: "I will ensure that everyone has healthcare."
People: "Hooray! Obama cares."
Obama: "Now everyone is REQUIRED to have health insurance."
People: "And the government will pay for it, right?"
Obama: "..."
People: "... right?"
Obama: "No, but your preexisting conditions will be covered."
People: "Yay!!!"
Obamacare subsidies were set to expire, in his plan. Obama handed his opponents a ticking time bomb before leaving office.
Trump just didn't renew this crock of a plan, because he is too busy doing other evil shit.
Trump is a daylight robber.
Obama was a midnight thief.
Poor people got clobbered,
electing either, as chief.Mandatory health insurance means more money for the "healthcare industry".
Remember the 2008 market crash that wiped out millions of Americans out of their retirement savings and 401-K? There was corruption behind the scenes, and big insiders made money. It was Obama who stopped that investigation, and it was sneakily moved out of the news cycle.
He fooled the masses with charm and attraction.
Propaganda is a weapon of mass distraction.Watch what he do.
Ignore what he say.
Connect the dots
and follow de monay!I used to laugh at the people who said, "Both sides are the same."
In 2023, I was a programmer with federal clearance, working for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, through #AccentureFederalServices , through a contractor ( #GrayDigital ), when I called out corruption & became a government #whistleblower
I have been #homeless since 2023, hounded by the law, a dozen rides in the back of cop cars, usually handcuffed. Kicked out of hospitals, banks, libraries, stores, & buses. 5 arrests ( 4 under #Biden, 1 under #Trump ), faced #police brutality, spent 6 nights in jail. The last arrest was extrajudicial, and I was not even brought before a judge after spending a night in jail, just told to go away.
I slept outdoors in winters without warm clothes, in muddy orchards, in rain, on cold concrete city pavements, in sweltering heat. I was denied public defense in #courts, though I told judges I was homeless and food insecure. I fought in court, representing myself, while homeless. All charges were dropped. It was whistleblower intimidation. I had committed no crimes. I was assaulted in the streets by the security guard of a #Catholic charity. I have eaten out of garbage cans, & several times, gone hungry for 2-3 days at a time.
In December 2025, I moved to #Tokyo to avoid persecution, though it followed me here. I'm homeless and hungry here as well, probably because the #Japanese government is reluctant to grant me #political #asylum.
Every #Refugee Assistance Organization I contacted in Tokyo has turned me away.
Read:
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/The linked PDF has an appendix with the "receipts", documents that corroborate my account.
#Earth #MAGA #Trump #UsPol
#Truth #propaganda #Heresy #corruption #DNC #RNC #USA
#America #Democrat #Republican
#Japan #government #corruption
#EqualRights #Justice #HumanRights #Law #InternationalLaw #UNHCR
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@ebbot 2/2 to be organized by leadership and propaganda. #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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The living standards of the masses of the people declined, of course.
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@ebbot 2/2 choice narrowed to ideas and objects brought to it attention through propaganda of all kinds. There is consequently a vast and continuous effort going on to capture our minds in the interest of some policy or commodity or idea. #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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It is not usually realized how necessary these invisible governors are to the orderly functioning of our group life. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine