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    Wait, you saying we didn’t get anything better on the Israel issue AND everything’s fucked at home? God damn, who could have seen this coming?

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    Zoom in and you can see the billions of dollars and nukes left on the nightstand for payment to Bibi. I hope it was worth it.

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    It may be hypocritical and inconsistent of me, but left-wing propaganda is the only time I can think of off-hand where I’m pretty OK with AI usage (or is this just a really good Photoshop)?

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      I don’t think that’s propaganda, I would call it a meme. It doesn’t try to pass as real information

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          Personally I agree with the sentiment, as long as it’s not outright propaganda. But then again when does the left use propaganda ?

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            Propaganda is not necessarily deceptive, though it can be. The word has gained a negative connotation over time but it just means systematically disseminating information in support of a doctrine or cause. That can be any doctrine or cause, and the information can be true, false, satire, or pure opinion. Propaganda is a neutral term and the internet has made producing it so simple that almost everyone has done so.

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              Oh, I thought it was propaganda when the information conveyed was deliberately deformed, or entirely false

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                That’s a connotation it has gained, but is not the literal definition.

                The term originated from religious missions using it to refer to propagating the faith, and was later adopted by revolutionary leftists to describe their attempts to spread their ideology. It gained a negative connotation, ironically, from anti-communist propaganda. Communist states used the term openly and neutrally to refer to both their own propaganda and that of their enemies’, while capitalist states used it derogatorily only to refer to communist propaganda and not their own (they tended to use various euphemisms to refer to their own propaganda without calling it that explicitly).

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            I mean memes can be a form of propaganda/there’s a venn diagram there, but considering there isn’t much subtlety in this one and some others— and I’d like to think I’m not in the mindset to take anything of this caliber from the right as any form of truth— “meme” is a considerably more apt descriptor.