Divide and conquer: The government’s propaganda of fear and fake news
2026-06-20 03:57 UTC
...We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
This is how you persuade a populace to voluntarily march in lockstep with a police state and police themselves (and each other): by ratcheting up the fear-factor, meted out one carefully calibrated crisis at a time, and teaching them to distrust any who diverge from the norm through elaborate propaganda campaigns.
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@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-20 06:39
So, while I am not at all dismissing some (imo valid) points presented here: OC Register is a conservative rag mentions of the “Deep State” in an unironic context smacks of the most obnoxious maga-ish narratives going all the way back to 2016 citing the “Ron Paul Freedom Report” is like… what. Come on. Really? At its roots, this isn’t progressive. It’s a conservative wingnut screed that just happens to align with the stopped clock principle. And I’m willing to bet the author would probably start ranting about how all this is aimed at making us more “woke”, if you lightly socially engineered them into thinking you agreed fully, simply to see which direction they were going to run with the narrative.