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**kriykat** @kriykat@gs.leftic.club · 7m

Chris Hedges Report: Decimating Gaza’s Health System
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/28/chris-hedges-report-decimating-gazas-health-system/
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon who has provided medical care in Gaza twice since Israel’s genocide began, describes the human suffering and total destruction of the medical system he witnessed there. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost This interview is also available on podcast…
#Politics #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide #HumanRights #Israel #Palestine #Propaganda #Terrorism #WarCrimes #AlAhliArabBaptistHospital #ChrisHedges #Dr.FerozeSidhwa #Gaza #Hospitals #IsraeliGenocide #MedicalCare #NasserMedicalComplex #TheChrisHedgesReport

Consortium News · 14hChris Hedges Report: Decimating Gaza's Health SystemDr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon who has provided medical care in Gaza twice since Israel's genocide began, describes the human suffering and total destruction of the medical system he witnessed there. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. If

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**Thomas** @tg9541@mas.to · 1h

Thomas @tg9541@mas.to

Here is Jacques Ellul on propaganda, and being alone in the crowd. Before the advent of modern mass media, that also worked in religious communities when everyone had to silently listen to a preacher.

Thus all modem propaganda profits from the structure of the
mass, but exploits the individual's need for self-affirmation; and
the two actions must be conducted jointly, simultaneously. Of
course this operation is greatly facilitated by the existence of the
modem mass media of communication, which have precisely this
remarkable effect of reaching the whole crowd all at once and yet
reaching each one in that crowd. Readers of the evening paper,
radio listeners, movie or TV viewers certainly constitute a mass
that has an organic existence, although it Is diffused and not
assembled at one point. These individuals are moved by the same
motives, receive the same impulses and impressions, find them-
selves focused on the same centers of Interest, experience the
same feelings have generally the same order of reactions and
ideas, participate in the same myths—and all this at the same
time: what we have here is really a psychological, if not a biological
mass. And the individuals in it are modified by this existence,
even if they do not know it. Yet each one is alone—the newspaper
reader, the radio listener. He therefore feels himself individually
concerned as a person, as a participant. The movie spectator also
is alone, though elbow to elbow with his neighbors, he still is,
because of the darkness and the hypnotic attraction of the screen,
perfectly alone. This is the situation of the "lonely crowd," or of

Isolation in the mass, which is a natural product of present-day
society and which is both used and deepened by the mass media.
The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is
when he is alone in the mass: it is at this point that propaganda
can be meat effective.
We must emphasize this circle which we shall meet again
and again; the structure of present-day society places the In-
dividual where he is most easily reached by propaganda. The
media of mass communication, which are part of the technical
evolution of this society, deepen this situation while making it
possible to reach the individual man, integrated in the mass; and
what these media do is exactly what propaganda must do in order
to attain its objectives. In reality propaganda cannot exist without
using these mass media. If, by chance, propaganda is addressed
to an organized group. It can have practically no effect on
individuals before that group has been fragmented. Such
fragmentation can be achieved through action, but it if equally
possible to fragment a group by psychological means. The trans-
formation of very small groups by purely psychological means
is one of the most important techniques of propaganda. Only
when very small groups are thus annihilated, when the individual
finds no more defenses, no equilibrium, no resistance exercised
by the group to which he belongs does total action by propaganda
become possible.

#propaganda #JacquesEllul #Sociology

**Thomas** @tg9541@mas.to · 1h

Thomas @tg9541@mas.to

Please remember: anyone is most vulnerable to propaganda when confronting it alone in the crowd*.

PS: Mastodon social networks are small enough not to qualify as a "crowd" (but only if you switch of "boosts")

*) Jacques Ellul, Propaganda - The Formation of Men's Attitudes, p. 8f

#propaganda #bots #Canada #MapleMAGA #China

https://dfrlab.org/2025/04/25/bot-like-activity-targets-canadian-political-parties-and-their-leaders-ahead-of-election/

DFRLab · 3dBot-like activity targets Canadian political parties and their leaders ahead of electionCanadian federal election subject to spam messaging from automated X accounts.

**kriykat** @kriykat@gs.leftic.club · 1h

kriykat @kriykat@gs.leftic.club

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Losing & Learning Nothing
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/28/patrick-lawrence-losing-learning-nothing/
The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News How odd to…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #Propaganda #Russia #U.s. #Ukraine #Bucha #GhostOfKyiv #HeroesOfSnakeIsland #UkraineWar #VietnamWar #Zaporizhzhia

Consortium News · 10hPATRICK LAWRENCE: Losing & Learning NothingThe delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News How odd to look back now — now, as Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine ends in

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**eddiebbot** @eddiebbot@mastodon.social · 2h

eddiebbot @eddiebbot@mastodon.social

@eddiebbot 2/2 choice narrowed to ideas and objects brought to it attention through propaganda of all kinds. There is consequently a vast and continuous effort going on to capture our minds in the interest of some policy or commodity or idea. #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

**rniamat** @rniamat@mastodon.social · 2h

rniamat @rniamat@mastodon.social

Opiniemakers zijn demagogen en erger
Tijdens een gesprek viel het begrip opiniemakers. Dat was volgens de spreker de term waarmee iemand op tv of radio was aangekondigd. Het viel hem op dat iedereen die zich zo noemt aan de rechter kant van het po
https://www.niamat.nl/blog/opiniemakers-zijn-demagogen-en-erger/
#Algemeen #leugen #propaganda

Het BetaBlog · 2hOpiniemakers zijn demagogen en erger - Het BetaBlogTijdens een gesprek viel het begrip opiniemakers. Dat was volgens de spreker de term waarmee iemand op tv of radio was aangekondigd. Het viel hem op dat iedereen die zich zo noemt aan de rechter kant van het politieke spectrum zit. Is dat toeval? Het [...]

**Ukraine-Nachrichten** @ukraine_nachrichten@mastodon.social · 2h

Ukraine-Nachrichten @ukraine_nachrichten@mastodon.social

«Russland verschärft Kontrollen von Ukrainern - Zentrum für Desinformationsbekämpfung»

https://ukraine-nachrichten.de/russland-versch%C3%A4rft-kontrollen-ukrainern-zentrum-desinformationsbek%C3%A4mpfung_25509?mtm_source=mastodon&mtm_medium=social&mtm_campaign=ma

Bildschirmfoto des Originalartikels auf korrespondent.net

ukraine-nachrichten.de · 2hRussland verschärft Kontrollen von Ukrainern - Zentrum für Desinformationsbekämpfung - Ukraine-NachrichtenUkrainer werden in Russland zunehmend als „innerer Feind“ wahrgenommen, so das Zentrum zur Bekämpfung von Desinformation.

#Ukraine #Desinformation #Kinder

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**Kevin Karhan** @kkarhan@infosec.space · 4h *

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Kevin Karhan @kkarhan@infosec.space

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes the problem is they are way better at #Propaganda and #MassManipulation, otherwise no #WageWorker would vote for their candidates.

And that is literally the problem!

By the time we'd see any #uprising they'd already entrench themselves with people willing to mow down unarmed protestprs with belt-fed machineguns and automatic grenade launchers without hesitation.

Or gotten themselves enough #RoboDogs and #RemoteTurrets to not need masses of soldiers to begin with, and instead enforce their own #Neofeudalism remotely like #warlords who have #drones at their disposal instead #ChildSoldiers!

#Robodogs #remoteturrets #neofeudalism

**eddiebbot** @eddiebbot@mastodon.social · 6h

eddiebbot @eddiebbot@mastodon.social

It is not usually realized how necessary these invisible governors are to the orderly functioning of our group life. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

**Union of Egoists** @theceoofanarchism@kolektiva.social · 8h

Union of Egoists @theceoofanarchism@kolektiva.social

General and spy
General " A dangerous group of radicals are trying to change the status quo"

Spy and Spider-man
Spider-man " gasp but everything is perfect just the way it is"

Moviegoer watcher spider-man shove a protester holding a sign that says help the poor
spider-man " this is for making the government cry"

Moviegoer " I love to watch these movies 8 times a year"

#marvel #socialism #propaganda

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**eddiebbot** @eddiebbot@mastodon.social · 9h

eddiebbot @eddiebbot@mastodon.social

@eddiebbot 2/2 dominated by the relatively small number of persons???a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million???who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

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**Kevin Karhan** @kkarhan@infosec.space · 9h *

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Kevin Karhan @kkarhan@infosec.space

@echo_pbreyer Es heißt "#cyberfaschistischer #Überwachungsstaat" und "#VerfassungsfeindlicheKackshice", nicht "#Chatkontrolle"...

Wenn wir das #Vokabular von #Verfassungsfeinden und #Cyberfaschisten übernehmen legitimieren wir deren #Propaganda!

#verfassungsfeinden #cyberfaschisten #vokabular

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**Kevin Karhan** @kkarhan@infosec.space · 10h *

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Kevin Karhan @kkarhan@infosec.space

@derZeitreiser @usi @fragdenstaat @dielinke Das Problem ist dass #LINKE daruin Versagen, gute #Propaganda, vorallem #Agitprop zu machen.

#WasFehlt ist aggressivst #SolarPunk- / #HopePunk als politische #Perspektive zu propagieren und auch für #Lohnarbeiter*innen und #Normies der "unteren 50%" oder generell "unteren 99%" zu pushen.

Dabei wären gerade diese Teile der Gesellschaft von der #NSAfD am ehesten betroffen und würden am meisten durch diese verlieren, agieren allerdings wie "#Stimmvieh" für jene #Rechtsextreme…

#Stimmvieh

**eddiebbot** @eddiebbot@mastodon.social · 11h

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eddiebbot @eddiebbot@mastodon.social

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · 11h

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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

#Trump touted the early results of his #immigration crackdown on Monday despite concerns over DueProcess, displaying photos of alleged criminal offenders on the White House lawn & preparing to target #SanctuaryCities & states that limit cooperation w/federal immigration enforcement.

[using these photos as #propaganda is 100% illegal under #InternationalLaw]

#law #AlienEnemiesAct #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-order-requiring-list-sanctuary-cities-states-wsj-reports-2025-04-28/

**eddiebbot** @eddiebbot@mastodon.social · 13h

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eddiebbot @eddiebbot@mastodon.social

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda