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It is not propaganda when it has been continuously ade repeatedly demonstrated, and is getting worse over the past decade. E.g., the Republicans had a memmber
by toss1 4y ago
It is not propaganda when it has been continuously ade repeatedly demonstrated, and is getting worse over the past decade. E.g., the Republicans had a memmber controlling the US House of Representatives in the last week who publicly spouts Qanon "theories" and claims that California wildfires have nothing to do with climate change but are actually caused by "Jewish Space Lasers". This is not some random fringe statehouse rep from an East Nowhere district, this is someone accepted into national party leadership. Another of the major R leaders is actively banning books in his state, and is a leading presidential candidate. The former President of the party propounded multiple anti-vaccination and unfounded, actually dangerous fake cures to a deadly pandemic. When he finally said something positive about vaccines at his rallies, he was roundly booed. The entire party and it's media are courting and herding anti-science.
There is no equivalency. The leaders are cynically broadcasting anti-science and pandering to anti-science stupidity. This is so bad that they are literally killing their own constituents by the hundreds of thousands [0][1]+++.
It is not demonization, it is literal truth. attempting to say otherwise is false equivalence.
[0] https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/study-finds-large-gap-in-excess-deaths-along-partisan-lines-after-covid-19-vaccines-introduced/ https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/study-finds-large-gap-in-...
[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republi...