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matrixmann ([personal profile] matrixmann) wrote2016-09-24 04:17 pm

Migration

"Ich bin nicht gegen Flüchtlinge. Sie machen nur die Verhältnisse hier keinesfalls besser."

"I'm not against refugees. They only don't help making the already precarious circumstances over here any better."

[identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com 2016-09-24 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I think, sometimes real info gets through but people are so desensitized, they don't care. Plus yeah you are right it is like an alibi- like "you see, we have a free press" type of deal. But they always downplay it. On the contrary whatever is on the agenda, they talk and talk about everywhere.

[identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com 2016-09-24 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, propaganda is a powerful weapon and they have mastered it quite well. And it is much easier to manipulate people with lies than educate them. Damn.

[identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com 2016-09-25 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally. In a way, it is genius. They have total control over people's minds with them thinking they are free.

You see they always point out that there was soviet propaganda and I say something like "did you, guys want western propaganda to be in the soviet union?" But the point is the soviet propaganda was in reality showing what capitalist society is like and censorship of any low quality degrading material. It seems outrageous but what western propaganda does is way worse because it is manipulating people and spreading lies.