As long as the art schools keep their entry standards low we’ll be fine.

Otto choosing to stay on the tracks, thinking the buss is a train, or a giant snake.

Makes it sound like a natural disaster, Trump’s name only appears three times in the body text of the article.

Stop paying the kid allowance on the premise they weren’t watching the tribble close enough.

The Riker Maneuver.

Why can’t they keep all those boxes? One in each room. Not like they all have to go out immediately.

The cat is probably home more often than they are, at least let it keep its temporary enrichment items that you can throw away any time and don’t cost you anything to keep but space.

Yep these people are jerks.

Or no, not now that you’ve played with dead bodies like this… Meaning she’d never marry him after this.

One authoritarian unfortunately doesn’t mean it’s the collapse of Capitalism.

Keep workers healthy so they can be worked harder and make bosses more money. This is the point of forcing health upon you. This is why cigarettes, junkfood, drugs and video games are to be banned.

Wasn’t there mandatory exercise in view of state owned Cameras in 1984? Mandatory star jumps for Christ and Capitalism.

It’s unfortunate that young leftists don’t understand the real territory of rightwing politics (their deeper espoused values), because there are genuine avenues for fractures and change there.

Conservatives tend to be statists even though they’ve been brainwashed into thinking they’re not. They tend to want grand projects, community halls, roman columns, socialism for their neighborhoods, family, community, and churches - none of which economic Libertarians agree with. Libertarians would be buying the marble back to sell it on the freemarket then eyeing the family and wondering why they can’t buy them as slaves too. Really opposing philosophies if you go by their ideals.

Then throw the Christian Distributism, Communitarianism, and Georgism in there, and Conservativism starts to look pretty leftwing, leaving Libertarians out in the cold.

Throw in a concept like Aesthetic Justice, the idea that poor suburbs should look and be designed to be beautiful and that that would reduce crime, create safer, more neighbourly communities - stuff like that might even break the conservative’s love of military policing.

It’s all a matter of perspective.

Yeah there are ideologies that most people can’t handle or comprehend today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_conservatism

This and Rockerfeller Republicanism (sometimes called the east coast elite).

Then there are things that make more sense, like Christian Distributism, Communitarianism, Georgism. Put all this together and you realise, there are definitely ways to Socialism that run through Conservatism. Most people can’t handle or understand this idea.

Conservativism is actually quite incompatible with Libertarianism (and even to some degree Neo-Liberalism). Conservativism and Libertarianism can be a very unhappy marriage at times.

I’m picturing ICE agents wedging their phones in car doors, and wrenching them open.

I haven’t seen all The Matrix movies, have I?

Ugh, I got culture war. It’s the worst.

…that kind of encompasses all of them, and more.

Always have been, it’s just more official for a little bit. Maybe it was Haliburton again.

Animation software didn’t have superscript, so no power ofs.

The moon wishes she was Cupid, Cupid wishes he was Mars.

Sounds like too much work.

Even just this conversation is something of a proof. You kept hitting me with that “proof” that ICE’s funding is being raised as if would “convince” me of something. You know, being a good debunker trying to realign your “opponents” viewpoint. Correct their values… Where as I wasn’t putting half as much effort into my approach.

Just writing my pro-propaganda poerty. Because poetry, art, humor, propaganda is an art form. Science, logic, rationality, skepticism, debunking - they’re a science, it’s more effort. Take more work. The mindset is more draining. It’s subject to more burnout and isolation.

It’s a case study. Meanwhile the upvotes for this post don’t go away. Nor do the people who didn’t see your correction, who just saw the headline and continued on their way (which I suspect is most reddit/lemmy style users, they’re doom scrolling).

Now apply this to a whole system of posting accross platforms like the alt-right does …and a little debunking can’t really make a dent in the overall effect.

It’s a tool the left can’t afford to avoid. It’s best seen and done as an art, as comedy, with humour, gloss, and pizazz, like Trump does it. That’s what works. Everything’s a commercial. An elevator pitch.

I’ve been a debunker. It only works in a rational society, and only untill the forces of irrationality emmerge again out of emotional need. Propaganda deals with the emotions because people aren’t rational.

It’s a case study.