Anne Applebaum“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"
Jerry Goff@anneapplebaum How were 77 million Americans so deceived by this conman---or without decency & compassion? Big sigh.
Joris Meys@jerrygoff
human psychology. People still underestimate the insane power of well thought out propaganda in moving entire societies in one or the other direction.
It's not Trump. It's the people who bought all the communication channels and then funded the continuous onslaught of disinformation and manipulative imagery through those channels.
Seriously, quite a big part of Trump voters live in a different (albeit fake) reality.
And to be clear: with "well thought out" I don't mean "subtle". The key factor is the volume and the repetition of simple statements to imprint brains to find it more plausible. The "illusory truth effect"
Strfnurfn@JorisMeys @jerrygoff @anneapplebaum Lefties think they're immune to propaganda because they wouldn't fall for pizzagate-type nonsense. But we ALREADY KNEW from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that they went after the left differently - by sowing INDECISION, getting Dem voters to stay home. "I couldn't possibly vote for kamala because she has not personally stopped the invasion of Gaza!" and all the "both sides same" malarkey.
Hook, line, sinker.
@earthtoneone Thanks for your thoughts.
@earthtoneone Indeed. Even more, those who think they're immune to it (regardless of political stance), are the easiest fooled.
(I do think there's more than two political stances possible, but that's for another discussion)