And of course this comic is also propaganda.
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I donβt think this is a good example of this idea as everything the blue character says is fairly obviously propaganda. They should choose something thatβs actually fairly believable if they want to make this point.
The last panel doesn't make sense without any politically differing propaganda to balance it out. All they did was list things one particular group of people already believe, how is that proof that people who don't believe those things are also susceptible to propaganda? Obviously they are, but nothing about the comic logically leads the reader to that conclusion. I don't believe those things so why shouldn't I trust myself? The only differing political viewpoint is the other people talking about vaccines, which isn't propaganda.
You know that, right?
This might be reverse psychology propaganda, making a bad argument that doesn't really support the conclusion to undermine it.
Either that or the "you are not immune to propaganda" is meant to be treated as another propaganda message.
Could be the former, I don't see the latter though. "You are not immune to propaganda" is an objective fact no matter who the "you" is.
Not exactly brave to question the propaganda your peer group already disagrees with.
Anyway, did you know communism killed 100 million people?
Yes it's unlikely it's as high as 100M, but it's probably ~50M. About 10M died of famine in the Soviet Union and around 40M in China. 1.2M to 2.2M were killed by the Khmer Rouge, a lot of people died in various civil wars fomented by communist regimes, and of course many died in gulags and as forced labour.
So the image above is doing a strawman style argument claiming that there are people that say "communism killed 100M people", and saying that this is "propaganda". Saying communism killed 100M is technically false (but who said that?), the number isn't likely to be 100M. But it's leaving out the part about communism killing ~50M people worldwide, because the goal is to make the audience think that all claims about communism resulted in a lot of people are dying are false. The goal is not to have discussion on what the actual number is, it's implying that communism didn't kill people.
That's the nature of propaganda, isn't it? Give a filtered version of the world and provide people with half truths and assume they won't bother to seek out the full truth.
Trying to count up the number of people killed by any ideology is, essentially, a nonsense game which can be spun any number of ways and doesn't tell us anything meaningful.
You really could've googled that. Just one google!
but who said that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
On the other hand, you arrived at the correct point that the meme is also propaganda, so IDK, I like you, but listen to your own advice.
The goal is not to have discussion on what the actual number is, itβs implying that communism didnβt kill people.
[...] Assume [people] wonβt bother to seek out the full truth.
Granted, one of the biggest reasons communism is responsible for so many deaths is that it was adopted by high population countries like USSR and China. And of course if you frame it via colonialism, what Communism did is almost exactly what the West did in 1800s.
I think there are better arguments against Communism than the number of deaths. Like the reasons those deaths happened: inefficiency, corruption, working against human nature and centralization of power.
Also, the point of the black book of capitalism is to prove, that how misleading the stats are and that communsists could also inflate tge same stats for capitalism, but they didn't (which is probably one of the reasons everything is capitalist now).
A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking.
The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques.
"What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American.
"Exactly," the Russian replies.
rofl excellent one
You don't see rofl nearly enough nowadays
And even more rarely the famed roflcopter.

Someone needs to make a quiz out of these. I don't see any I believe but I know people who are politically aligned with me who do and and I'm sure the list could be expanded many fold.
But we are the good guys, aren't we? :'(
