tapping the "you are not immune to propaganda" sign like a woodpecker.
you know how trump keeps pulling stupid stunts that are purposely inflammatory while hoping we're distracted enough to forget about the epstein files? that's a propaganda tactic. he's appealing to your emotions so you forget about facts. his claims of election fraud and defamation campaigns and how immigrants are dangerous threats to america? he's trying to get you to feel angry enough to let go of logical thinking so you don't question his lack of evidence or exaggeration of trivial incidents.
and that's exactly what the iranian regime is doing. they don't give a fuck about the well being of iranians, but do you know why they had their world cup team have a ceremony for the victims of the bombing of a girl's school, and why they had the casket of khamenei's granddaughter at his funeral? because the death of children is tragic, and they're playing up the "amerikkka are monsters who kill kids" narrative to invoke your emotions while hoping you don't notice the 30,000+ people they killed during the january protests.
hamas puts out images of sickly looking children to make you hate israel while hoping you don't notice that they steal from aid trucks. putin claims zelenskyy started a genocidal war unprovoked to make you hate ukraine while hoping you don't notice the russian soldiers put in crimea before ukraine retaliated.
that doesn't mean absolutely no immigrants have killed americans, or that america and israel haven't killed iranian children, or that there aren't people suffering in gaza because of israel, or that russian civilians haven't died due to ukrainian weapons -- but that's the whole point. propaganda takes claims that are rooted in truth and exaggerates them to fit whatever narrative it's pushing, which is why it's so effective on social media, because short-form content doesn't have the capacity for nuance anyway.
question everything!!! fact check claims!!!! encourage nuance!!!!! don't rely on your emotions to separate fact from fiction!!!!!! use your brains people!!!!!!!!
