Love the cats expressions! ‘I’m happy with my position at the center of the universe.’

I might be biased, but I really like !stick@sh.itjust.works. Really fun posting about the wonderful qualities of a good stick.

(FYI, I’m the mod, if you don’t want self promotion, I can delete this. But I do think the community is great)

Let me get this right, your saying all reporting on the Holocaust is propaganda?

I’m trying to nail down what propaganda is so we can talk about it. It’s not much use taking about it if we mean different things.

I’d define propaganda as misconstruing the truth towards political ends. If it’s commercial ends rather than political, it’s false advertising. If it’s not misconstruing, then it’s advertising or public communications. Just to set a baseline.

I can’t find what your sources are defining as propaganda from a brief look, so let’s compare to my definition.

Conspiracy I take as being secretive. I think this strategy is publicized.

I’d define propaganda as misconstruing the truth towards political ends. If it’s commercial ends rather than political, it’s false advertising. If it’s not misconstruing, then it’s advertising or public communications. Just to set a baseline.

I can’t find what your sources are defining as propaganda from a brief look, let’s compare to my definition.

Though money. They don’t let people film with their equipment unless they have some say in the outpout. But again, it isn’t a conspiracy, it’s factors and pressures that sometimes effect the output.

Hollywood’s role is to make money. They do that by making movies that appeal to people so that they’ll pay for them, while not alienating their funding. There isn’t some top down directive to portray oligarchs well, it’s just part of the ballance. Another factor is that directors, at least established ones, tend to be rich, so they have that perspective in their work.

Would all rhetoric (persuading people) be propaganda? I think that makes the word useless.

From the first one

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Sounds like it’s referring to any marketing or public communications from any company government or individual. I’d qualify that as overly broad.

I don’t think that’s a good definition, since Holocaust documentaries would be propaganda since it makes America look like the good guys.

What do you define as propaganda? Anything could be if your definition is too broad.

They help different things. Bees will help the local flowers and plants, solar panels will cut carbon emissions. But boosting plants doesn’t cut carbon emissions since the carbon isn’t sequestered, it’ll go back to the atmosphere once the plant decomposes.

So if you like the look of flowers or want honey, go with bees. If you want to lower carbon emissions, go solar.

Which is what LTT didn’t know at the time. They only knew about stealing affiliate codes.

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Definitely!

They’ve had public spats with Anchor and Plex, doesn’t seem to have hurt them too much. I don’t see how honey is more dangerous to them.

Why would being problematic to honey hurt them? If anything, it’d make the other sponsors more confident in their affiliate links. They’ve burnt plenty of brides with Apple and Nvidia, I don’t see why they would be afraid of honey.

I think those use tracks?