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renewiltordtoday at 1:43 AM1 replyview on HN

I mean if you agree with it, it’s not propaganda. There are lots of kinds of propaganda you probably agree with like “70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” and stuff like that. It’s just that the stuff you don’t like is propaganda.


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ghurtadotoday at 4:39 AM

> I mean if you agree with it, it’s not propaganda

A very workable definition of "propaganda" might be "an idea crafted specifically so that you will think it was your idea in the first place"

That's why "agreeing" with propaganda is not the correct verb.

You either believe propaganda or you don't. This has nothing to do with reason or logic.

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