From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda > Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence o

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda > Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. From the specific example of the Tim Pool video posted earlier, his repetition of the phrase “Ukraine is our enemy” is a good example of loaded language meant to evoke an emotional rather than rational response. Propaganda is not actually nebulous or usually all that difficult to identify. There are of course degrees of nuance sometimes, but Tim Pool is no master of subtlety or rhetorical complexity. The idea that pointing out propaganda is the realm of people that have been “captured by [opposing] propaganda” is itself nonsense that traps a person in a sort of feedback loop (for example if that is how identifying propaganda works, if you notice that someone is captured by propaganda that is because you yourself are captured by a different propaganda). The idea that “propaganda” means “things I don’t want to hear” is factually wrong, and the endeavor of pretending that it is only accomplishes discouraging people from recognizing it.