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It's the same reason they told us inflation wasn't happening, and then it was transitory, then it was because of Putin, now it is actually a good thing. They h

It's the same reason they told us inflation wasn't happening, and then it was transitory, then it was because of Putin, now it is actually a good thing. They have no respect for you or your intelligence and they want you to feel scared. The goal of propaganda is not to convert you to anything it is simply to convince you that you are alone, so that you won't have the courage to point out the emporer is wearing no clothes.

asdajksah2123 4y ago
> It's the same reason they told us inflation wasn't happening, and then it was transitory, then it was because of Putin, now it is actually a good thing. Who is "they" here? Because this is a very strange timeline/explanation of inflation and bears very little resemblance to what people who matter were actually saying. The only part that Central banks really got wrong was that inflation that was originally driven by pandemic driven supply chain issues would be transitory. And they openly admitted they were wrong and course corrected very rapidly.
- buscoquadnary 4y ago
  > Who is "they" here? The immortal Mesopotamian space lizards obviously. I love the part of the game where we all pretend then that we didn't actually see what we saw and that the reality we saw wasn't real. Like when everyone said that "no one ever said masks are ineffective", or "the vaccine will be the end of the pandemic " my personal favorite was "2 weeks to slow the grow", the only one better than that was "when we said Russia hacked the election we only ever meant that people in Russia also supported Donald Trump we never meant anything ridiculous by that". Although who can forget the iconic "firey but mostly peaceful protests" that consumed large swathes of America.
  - unethical_ban 4y ago
    Please, link to a paper of record that said the 2016 accusations were related to actual hacking of machines. Violence in 2020 protests was limited to several cities but people who live in BFE saw Jesse Watters tell them about the end of the empire. CDC recommended against masks early on and I resent that for it being incorrect info even if they were doing it for a net good. But also because it gives conspiracy theorist lie-mongers oxygen.
  - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
    Yeah, it's hard to call Trump a nutter when it turns out his attitude about people being out to get him isn't completely unfounded. The entire Russian Hoax is a good example of that.
    - unethical_ban 4y ago
      What hoax? Trump didn’t get impeached enough. Seriously. https://wannabewonk.com/summary-of-hypocrisies/ https://wannabewonk.com/summary-of-hypocrisies/
      - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
        unethical_ban 4y ago
        Nice complete dodge of a citation. You keep pushing "Russia Narrative" like that's a proper noun people know. Wiki link? Or are you talking about, perhaps, the Steele Dossier? Or do you know what you're talking about?
        P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
        oh look, someone did a bit of googling and realized what I said was true. Then they try to imply that it's weird to expect people to understand the Russia link to Trump without some official title. inb4 they claim I just changed the word "Hoax" to "Narrative" to hide that I'm a Trump Supporter! (I'm not), therefore I'm racist, sexist, and all other kinds of ist's and I'm going to hell! As a minority! --- It's been discredited, and it was done under the Biden Administration. So we know Trump dealt with this most of his presidency (arguably all of it) and we know it's turned out to be manufactured, yet somehow it absolutely cannot be true that he feels as if people are coming after him unfairly? This is everything that's wrong with current US politics.
        4y ago

asdajksah2123 4y ago

> It's the same reason they told us inflation wasn't happening, and then it was transitory, then it was because of Putin, now it is actually a good thing. Who is "they" here? Because this is a very strange timeline/explanation of inflation and bears very little resemblance to what people who matter were actually saying. The only part that Central banks really got wrong was that inflation that was originally driven by pandemic driven supply chain issues would be transitory. And they openly admitted they were wrong and course corrected very rapidly.

buscoquadnary 4y ago
> Who is "they" here? The immortal Mesopotamian space lizards obviously. I love the part of the game where we all pretend then that we didn't actually see what we saw and that the reality we saw wasn't real. Like when everyone said that "no one ever said masks are ineffective", or "the vaccine will be the end of the pandemic " my personal favorite was "2 weeks to slow the grow", the only one better than that was "when we said Russia hacked the election we only ever meant that people in Russia also supported Donald Trump we never meant anything ridiculous by that". Although who can forget the iconic "firey but mostly peaceful protests" that consumed large swathes of America.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  Please, link to a paper of record that said the 2016 accusations were related to actual hacking of machines. Violence in 2020 protests was limited to several cities but people who live in BFE saw Jesse Watters tell them about the end of the empire. CDC recommended against masks early on and I resent that for it being incorrect info even if they were doing it for a net good. But also because it gives conspiracy theorist lie-mongers oxygen.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
  Yeah, it's hard to call Trump a nutter when it turns out his attitude about people being out to get him isn't completely unfounded. The entire Russian Hoax is a good example of that.
  - unethical_ban 4y ago
    What hoax? Trump didn’t get impeached enough. Seriously. https://wannabewonk.com/summary-of-hypocrisies/ https://wannabewonk.com/summary-of-hypocrisies/
    - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
      - unethical_ban 4y ago
        Nice complete dodge of a citation. You keep pushing "Russia Narrative" like that's a proper noun people know. Wiki link? Or are you talking about, perhaps, the Steele Dossier? Or do you know what you're talking about?
        P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
        oh look, someone did a bit of googling and realized what I said was true. Then they try to imply that it's weird to expect people to understand the Russia link to Trump without some official title. inb4 they claim I just changed the word "Hoax" to "Narrative" to hide that I'm a Trump Supporter! (I'm not), therefore I'm racist, sexist, and all other kinds of ist's and I'm going to hell! As a minority! --- It's been discredited, and it was done under the Biden Administration. So we know Trump dealt with this most of his presidency (arguably all of it) and we know it's turned out to be manufactured, yet somehow it absolutely cannot be true that he feels as if people are coming after him unfairly? This is everything that's wrong with current US politics.
        4y ago