Heard some US army dude say something about propaganda; that often as not the point is to produce absurd propaganda, so that it calls reporting on both sides into question.
If your side makes some absurd claim about the enemy killing their own civilians for not clapping or whatever, and the enemy points out your real war crimes, then, while your fanatics might believe you anyway, the response of the Educated Moderate would be: ‘Well, there’s a lot of misinformation going around, so it’s not really possible to know the facts for sure’ - tacitly going along with your goal of muddying the waters, and feeling like they’ve outsmarted you for it.
Funnily enough, very applicable to Radio Free Whatever and its absurd reporting with, say, the DPRK.
Very relevant with this new Forbes article claiming that China has seventeen-thousand percent more Covid deaths than reported - a claim that, if true, would have been noticed very easily by any number of NGOs or international observers - and which just so happens to give China more deaths than the US.
I mean - well, who knows if proper lockdowns actually work, right? Sure, you could point to the amazing efforts China and Vietnam have gone to to, which have saved countless millions of lives, unlike the US - but There’s A Lot of Misinformation Going Around and Do You Really Trust Either of Them?
Maybe all the US deaths were just unavoidable, and at least you didn’t have a Tyrannical lockdown, so hey, the US might even be better, right? At least we have free speech :^)
i love punk because if you dont like a song just wait it’ll be over in like 90 seconds. dont worry about it. and i love metal because if you DO like a song good news buddy there’s still 11 more minutes
