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>This remains to be studied I think it is fair for me to assume that propaganda does influence politics without having to commission a study on it.
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>This remains to be studied
I think it is fair for me to assume that propaganda does influence politics without having to commission a study on it.
- brycesbeard 7y agothe relevant question is whether it influences on a scale we want to stop. Treating it as a binary isn’t very useful.
- lmm 7y agoWhy? Because propagandists try really hard? Because they spend a lot of money on it?
- Spooky23 7y agoThe US 2016 election is pretty damn conclusive. Push a simple message to the swing states of the Midwest, and boom.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoIf Hillary had not pulled strings on the DCCC, or she actually campaigned on those states, no amount of ads could have swinged them.
- lmm 7y agoThat's the election in which one candidate massively out-spent the other but nevertheless lost, right?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoHistory books mostly.