• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    So, ICE is scared that aggressive untrained people will use deadly force against them, and that afterwards the government will do nothing about it?

    That’s pretty much how everybody else has felt about ICE for a long time.

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          8 days ago

          We all cope in our own ways. This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda, so… at least there’s that?

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            8 days ago

            This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda

            This post isn’t propaganda, though, so it’s not that amazing of an example.

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              8 days ago

              Yeah and if this openly and unabashedly satirical post was still being treated like legit reporting, imagine how people must react to actual propaganda.

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                8 days ago

                Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.

                It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.

                Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.

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                  8 days ago

                  Actual propaganda frequently is true, this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news, just guessing something is true doesn’t make it true, I didn’t recognize the poster I went and looked it up trying to find a source and discovered it was posted by a very open satire site, and this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.

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                    8 days ago

                    this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news

                    That’s not the type of misleading that qualifies as propaganda. It has to be misleading in a way that pushes their agenda.

                    this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.

                    This is a fight you started by saying that my original comment was me not being immune to propaganda. If you think it’s stupid, then you should have chosen more correct words.

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            8 days ago

            I wasn’t criticising the satirist, more the world that is making satire impossible to differentiate from fact.

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              8 days ago

              Nah totally, I read it as a similar sentiment to "What’s the point in doing anything". If that was off the mark I apologize. I just meant that we all cope in our own ways, even if some of them are somewhat windmill-tilting-y

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          8 days ago

          In this case, perhaps to put the idea of shooting at ICE cars out into the universe without getting in trouble lol

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          8 days ago

          Because there’s still plenty of wiggle room. You actually thought ICE officials were afraid of citizens?

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        8 days ago

        With that said, if you were to end in the same situation, would the idea to actually run over an ICE agent so that he doesn’t shoot you cross your mind?

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            7 days ago

            What I mean is satire or not: they SHOULD be worried. Now people may genuinely assume that running over them is the higher survival rate option.