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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is more of a rant than a response to anything I actually said.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's a little disjointed because I edited in the first paragraph, but yes it does respond to what you said.

Do you want a line by line breakdown? Ok.

We’re not talking about the right, though; we’re talking about the left and center.

Agreed. And guess what? The right wing's propaganda machine has reached the center. That's the whole point. 18 years of hardcore propaganda has reached the center. That's the point of propaganda.

You know, the people who voted for Obama,

You don’t have do go very far to find “my dad was the greatest, didn’t care if people were black” EDIT AT ADD: "and voted for Obama". And those people changed to, well, I won’t repeat much of the Qanon.

There’s a whole sub for it, remember? QanonCasualties. People that were formely center or Obama voters that got suckered in. That’s the point of propaganda, to spread the message, to increase their voters.

Why even care what the right thinks?

The whole point of propaganda is to reach other people. So it's not what the right thinks, it's how the people that were formerly center that have been suckered in to the right's propoganda will vote.

Sure, but that cuts both ways.

No it doesn’t cut both ways because left media is beholden to the truth, and right wing media can do whatever they want. They lie their ass off. They twist. They appeal to easy emotions like fear and anger. The left media can't do that.

The most popular “news” source is what? Fox.

You are missing everything. Like fucking everything.