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Be on the lookout for CIA propaganda! Tankies LOVE dissenters! (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am not advocating for peace above reason. I am advocating for wisdom in violence. Violence is UGLY no matter who is doing it or why. If you mistakenly think ignorant people will view a conflict and rightfully determine who is fighting for a "good" cause, then you are quite an ignorant fool yourself.

Just look at the Palestinian conflict. Basically ANY activist that believes in violence would be OK with violence happening. Violence happens.

Do people guess who the good guys are correctly? Or are tensions flaring up HARD despite there being ample information about who is killing whom?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unending storms of propaganda do a lot to influence how ignorant people react in a situation. And it serves to keep them ignorant as well.

(Not the person you were responding to, but that's my take on how people often react regarding Palestine.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly. That is why choosing words carefully is very important when wording political messages, and even more important when deploying violence.

Without basically every major media outlet backing Israel, they would've been condemned even harder than China did over the ongoing Uyghur genocide.