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11·10 hours agoThe protests and their coverage famously happened months after Iran was literally bombed by the US, have you forgotten about that? The whole Iran throwing missiles to Israel thing?
Hey I’m the one with both Hexbear and Reddthat accounts, not dodging anything. I’m just calling atrocity propaganda in the eve of invasion by its name.
God forbid there is 1 space in my life not plastered with western imperialist propaganda
Oh, it’s tankies controlling social media feeds, thats why I’m literally reacting on .world to this post with 650 upvotes by an account that literally only reposts western propaganda
The Iranian government doesn’t have the power to suppress western media, and western media would publish every single of these videos like wildfire.
Obviously, I never doubted it, but you can’t jam 6000 starlinks, so it was still possible for videos to come out of Iran.
Not a tough line to walk, really. I see no constant stream of news on Lemmy about Qatar being an apartheid state with 80% of migrants without rights, or Saudi Arabia’s similar policy. No constant stream of posts about mass incarceration of black people in the US, of Nazis roaming the streets of Madrid and Paris…
Deciding what news to publish is itself extremely political, and focusing on atrocity propaganda in Iran, a heavily sanctioned country against which there’s an ongoing US military buildup on the verge of invasion, is willing and a form of atrocity propaganda. It’s designed specifically to make progressive people less critical of the upcoming strikes, and judging by the number of upvotes these posts get, it’s working.
5 years ago there wasn’t this constant stream of anti-Iranian propaganda, it was Venezuela, and we’ve seen the results. Learning to distinguish the workings of propaganda is critical to any progressive, and it allows us both to be more resistant to propaganda and to use it better (for example by relentlessly posting about Palestine or the ICE, we can similarly engage in what I consider good atrocity propaganda).
You cannot frequency jam an entire city either bruv, the way they were preventing Starlink usage was by detecting emitted radio signals of that frequency and going in person to arrest the users and confiscate the equipment.
Fuck off, Zionist fascist scum
Not country-wide…
What part of “US sanctions murder half a million people yearly” do you not understand or care about?
18k news posts, most of them from genocide-complicit western Zionist media
I can’t fathom how, after the disgrace that western media has proven to be during the “Israeli” genocide of Palestinians, posting unending links to western mass-media can be considered a positive and not a tool of brainwashing.
I find it hard to engage with these people without using ableist terms, I’ve settled on “purposefully obtuse” because it’s clear and neutral enough I believe. Thanks for reading anyway
so the audience does not come to a rational conclusion but a fabricated one
That’s not how propaganda works, propaganda explicitly can be true information as explained to you before using the Wikipedia article. I literally quoted it to you, it can be factual information.
Mentioning atrocities in every single paragraph is the biggest case of atrocity propaganda, and if you are purposefully obtuse enough not to see it, just drop this conversation.
I never said this. All my power to the students combatting the repression in Iran. My issue is absolutely not with the protestors, my issue is the framing of this in western media as justification for military invasion of Iran.