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You're Not Immune To Propaganda

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It's very common in the West, especially in the US, for people to assume that propaganda doesn't really exist in our society. Sure, those other countries brainwash their citizens, but not us! No, all our media is completely unbiased. Let's explore the idea of propaganda, and how exactly it functions in neoliberal capitalism.

You're Not Immune To Propaganda – Second Thought

This is insane propaganda

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you could be imune to propaganda if you dead stupid

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Citations And Further Reading:

Neoliberal subjectification and control

Do people actually not know that democracys we live under and qe do live under invisble governors

— @emilymackenzie5997

https://lchc.ucsd.edu/cogn_150/Readings/brown.pdf

https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP23-Mirowski.pdf https://www.veletsianos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/problem-with-flexible-learning-Preprint.pdf

uhhhhhhhhhhh! this is a propaganda dude.

— @inzamhaque8970

https://jacobin.com/2014/06/bulletproof-neoliberalism/

https://ephemerajournal.org/contribution/becoming-neoliberal-subject

Here is another great video on Propaganda... https://youtu.be/yWzu-iCefPg Thank You For Thinking!!!

— @menacetreeoftruth411

https://newintrigue.com/2020/06/29/the-philosophy-of-byung-chul-han/

https://teoriapoliticaseminariohome.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/the-rise-of-neoliberal-feminism-rottenberg-c..pdf

I feel like people nowadays lack critical thinking, even though knowledge is abundant.. They don't even care to fact check before believing something. Their cognitive bias blind them, getting fed by lies and propaganda..

— @albertt8939

Bernays’ propaganda

www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Bernays_Propaganda_in_english_.pdf

Just watched a video about critical thinking. Always ask, and analyze. Don't take everything at face value.

— @selimnokashi9249

Britannica’s propaganda

https://www.britannica.com/topic/propaganda

to be fair macron was still the best option

— @Rendezvous70

More on propaganda

https://keimena11.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/noam-chomsky-media-control.pdf

Not only am I immune, I also cannot be killed by conventional weapons.

— @TrevorThelen

Iraq

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/03/14/a-look-back-at-how-fear-and-false-beliefs-bolstered-u-s-public-support-for-war-in-iraq

Between 1947 and 1987 alone, "they" (C..alone) instigated 3,000 "major" and 7,000 "minor" operations around the world. All illegal according to US and EU laws. Since the founding of the U.S., there have only been 12 years in which they did not wage war. They have waged at least 492 wars. Since the compilation of this list, the number may no longer be entirely accurate. Media control in the EU territory after 1945 led to over 80 government overthrows, economic devastation, deaths, injuries, political crimes—everything imaginable. What happened before and after (except for the years 1947 to 1987) is a whole other story. The EU countries are complete and total vassals of... Completely. Even in terms of media. 😊 Like the the USA provided wonderful financial and economic support to Hitler. Hitler's rise to power was also financially supported by them, with crucial war materiel! Right up to Operation Barbarossa. The goal of the Heartland Theory since 1906: to never, under any circumstances, allow Germany and Russia to unite. Never! Then the always-planned takeover of the Eurasian Plate would hardly be possible. With Yeltsin, they could exploit Russia economically in every respect and turn it into a vassal state. They celebrated a little too soon, as they have been doing since 1880. Central Europe would be too strong. Then he would have fully supplied Stalin. I also have information that is NOT "hip": how Pearl Harbor could actually have come about economically and politically. Astonishing. Furthermore: that the atomic bombs that were supposed to be dropped on Japan were actually no longer necessary. Documentaries about everything still exist.

Oh, I see. Please look it up: the clique deliberately and totally wanted to end the war against Japan through economic and political sanctions. Not to "help" China or anyone else. Thank you.

As I said, these facts merely represent a small part of the iceberg, visible only up to the waterline.

You just have to dig for the "great" part. Right?

Oh, I forgot: Who gave Lenin the money to kick off the Russian Revolution from about 1917 onwards? Who built up their economic capacities from 1917-1930 for starters? Who could have collapsed the then Soviet Union's economy within 18 months or maybe in a bit longer time during the "cold war?" Who kept that system economically alive during that time? Who is cannibalising the European Economy now step by step? Their own vassals? Their own "friends?"
Man, I did not go on from before 1947 at all. From the late 1880's until 1947, it is a world record list again.


We will know that our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes turns out to be false. William Casey, former CIA director, when asked what the agency's goal was (1981)

Nothing in politics happens by accident. If it does, you can bet it was planned that way. Franklin D. Roosevelt

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you think. William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

The world is ruled by very different people than those imagined by those who aren't behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli (19th century), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 1830s

To govern people, you must either surpass them in achievements or despise them. Benjamin Disraeli (19th century), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but being America's friend is deadly. Henry Kissinger

The USA has no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Enemies; only constant interests. Henry Kissinger

Globalization is just another word for American hegemony.

Henry Kissinger

Control the oil, and you control the nations. Control the food, and you control the people.

Henry Kissinger

No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (You know, who calls themselves super free, i.e., land.)

Goethe

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

As I mentioned above: It's all just for starters.

As I mentioned above: It's all just for starters.

— @siegfriedbartel7122

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-iraqis-us-says-hussein-intensifies-quest-for-bomb-parts.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/18/world/threats-responses-inspections-verification-difficult-best-say-experts-maybe.html

Here after Dhurandhar 2...an Indian blatant propaganda movie which people refuse to accept and are ready to hit back if someone call it one.....and is set to become all time highest grossing movie ...

😊

— @abhisheknath8440

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/world/threats-responses-military-war-plan-for-iraq-calls-for-big-force-quick-strikes.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/aftereffects-prohibited-weapons-illicit-arms-kept-till-eve-war-iraqi-scientist.html

A fascinating meta-layered video: propaganda dressed up as a warning against the cunning machinations of subtle propaganda, using an ideologically skewed selection of sample cases — and the lion's share of the audience gobbles it up! A very clever demonstration indeed!

— @simonkorsmoe3625

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2004/06/20/3/38f7a537-46e0-43b0-90bd-d231d6cd0a9a/#:~:text=%22Iraq%20is%20open%20for%20business%2C%22%20L.%20Paul%20Bremer%2C%20administrator%20of%20the%20U.S.%2Dled%20occupation%2C%20declared%20optimistically%20in%20May%202003

Guatemala

I had not expected a full blown load of socialist/communist/far left propaganda in this presentation.

🤯😂😂😂🤡

Holy crap.😂
Is this a communist channel? Sounds very much like it. At least progressive.

— @Julienne1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta

thttps://web.archive.org/web/20120822190236/http://imerrill.umd.edu/johnkirch/files/2010/03/Covering-a-Coup-John-Kirch.pdf

Communism is the way

— @Asad5713DS

Macron

https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20150107.OBS9413/macron-il-faut-des-jeunes-francais-qui-aient-envie-de-devenir-milliardaires.html

The new Free Iran movement going on as of now.

— @GintokiSakata-mt2ez

https://www.lesechos.fr/2015/01/emmanuel-macron-il-faut-des-jeunes-francais-qui-aient-envie-de-devenir-milliardaires-241247

https://youtu.be/roJpZftZvFE

There is a USA town that is very good at getting rid of their race traitors. It uses the government, murder, killings and sometimes ass whippings, the ones who obey the laws are a little more of a challenge with the criminals, drug dealers, rapist, kidnappers, thieves, robbers, being the easiest to imprison or get away with killing. The type who tries to prey on their own group. The others still can be encouraged to relocate. The locals are majority pro their own white ethnic group. Not big on slurs nor is the population filled with hate freaks, but pro-whites and seem to mention ancestors more than normal in conversations and seem to believe in the separation of races. not even a majority Christian town. Atheists and alternate white religions. The local atheist has customs, traditions, rule sets, organization, culture, values, white communities and their white ethnic groups and family units and seem to look at Christian more than not as servants of darkness. The locals value decency and good behavior over villainess and sadism. Atheism can be whatever but can be still combined with certain kinds of beliefs and values and barely even care about alien atheists. Having their conversations and interactions locally. not nationally or globally. Atheism is dominate in the social circles while still being very tolerant to certain kinds of alternate white religions. The local atheists like good tales, folk tales, myths. Keeping aliens out of their more important conversions is very common and pretending to be a Christian only makes them more dishonest. The local believe evil creates chaos and can internally damage their communities and family units and the locals also seem to dislike and distrust ugly people and woman haters Who also seem to have a decent looking population, with similar jaws and noses. The local prize kindness over cruelty. its not a cruelville, but a niceville. The locals do not behave, based upon how the Politian's or media wish them to behave and are not supporters of Hollywood. The only use the local really seem to have for Hollywood is as a teaching tool for propaganda and lies. Their lynchings are mostly sex offenders and drug dealers.

— @LionKing-c9y

https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2018/09/17/je-traverse-la-rue-je-vous-en-trouve-en-une-petite-phrase-emmanuel-macron-expose-sa-vision-du-travail_5356365_823448.html

https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Assurance-chomage-saison-II-controles-renforces-baisse-des-indemnites-et-guerre-sociale-au

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Hypothetical Oral Argument
Kelvin v. United States
(Challenging the legal immunity of fraudulent propaganda under the First Amendment)

Opening Statement
Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:
This case asks whether the First Amendment requires the American people — the sovereign public — to endure deliberate, systematic, and coordinated propaganda that functions as fraud, distorts democratic decision‑making, and undermines the very conditions that make free speech meaningful.
We do not ask the Court to restrict speech.
We ask the Court to recognize that fraud is not speech, and that society — the largest association of citizens — has constitutional standing to defend itself from deception that erodes its ability to think, choose, and govern.
In Citizens United, this Court held that corporations are “associations of citizens” whose political expression is protected.
If that is so, then the public — the ultimate association of citizens — must have at least equal constitutional protection when its collective autonomy is threatened.
The First Amendment does not require the people to be defenseless against mass fraud.

I. The First Amendment Protects Speech, Not Fraud
This Court has long held that:
• Fraud is not protected
• Defamation is not protected
• Perjury is not protected
• False advertising is not protected
• Incitement is not protected
Propaganda — as defined here — is not mere opinion or advocacy.
It is intentional deception designed to manipulate public judgment, often using psychological techniques unavailable to ordinary speakers.
When speech is weaponized to destroy the public’s ability to deliberate, it ceases to be speech in the constitutional sense.
It becomes conduct — harmful conduct — and the state may regulate harmful conduct.

II. Citizens United Created a Constitutional Asymmetry That Must Be Reconciled
In Citizens United, the Court reasoned:

But the Court also held that corporations — fictional entities — possess First Amendment rights because they are “associations of citizens.”
If a corporation, which can be created in a day and dissolved in a week, is entitled to constitutional protection because it represents citizens, then the public itself — the sovereign — must have equal or greater protection when its collective interests are harmed.
A corporation:
• Has no mind
• Has no conscience
• Cannot be deceived
• Cannot be psychologically manipulated
But a society can.
The Constitution cannot elevate a fictional entity above the real human beings who constitute the nation.

III. The Public Has a Constitutional Interest in Preserving Democratic Integrity
This Court has repeatedly recognized collective constitutional interests, including:
• The public’s right to a fair trial
• The public’s right to safety
• The public’s right to an informed electorate
• The public’s right to be free from fraud
The First Amendment is not a suicide pact.
It does not require the public to accept deception that destroys the conditions of self‑government.
Propaganda that intentionally manipulates the electorate is not “speech” that advances democratic deliberation.
It is fraudulent interference with the public’s constitutional role as sovereign.

IV. The Government’s Interest Is Not Censorship — It Is Protection of Autonomy
We do not ask the Court to police opinions, ideology, or political disagreement.
We ask the Court to recognize that:
• Deliberate deception
• Coordinated disinformation
• Manipulative psychological operations
are forms of fraud, not speech.
Just as the government may prohibit fraudulent securities statements to protect investors, it may prohibit fraudulent political statements to protect voters — the most important participants in the constitutional order.
The people are not less deserving of protection than shareholders.

V. The Crime Scene Analogy Illustrates the Constitutional Hierarchy
If a corporation disappears, there is no constitutional injury.
If a society disappears — or loses its capacity for self‑government — the Constitution itself collapses.
The First Amendment exists to protect the people, not to endanger them.
The Constitution cannot be interpreted to give a fictional entity greater protection than the sovereign public.

Conclusion
The question before the Court is simple:
Does the First Amendment require the American people to be defenseless against deliberate, coordinated deception that undermines their ability to govern themselves?
The answer must be no.
Fraud is not speech.
Propaganda that functions as fraud is not speech.
And the public — the ultimate association of citizens — has a constitutional right to defend itself.
We ask this Court to recognize that the First Amendment protects free thought, not the tools designed to destroy it.
Thank you.

— @kelvinharris5657

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I watch your videos with my son and really appreciate your content. But this video in particular gets a critical point of Neo-liberalism incorrect. Under Neo-liberalism’s ideals as espoused by Hyek government expenditure would ideally never be treated to a cost benefits analysis. In fact any sort of economic modelling is dismissed in favour of a pseudo-religious belief that markets are infallible and that ANY government expenditure designed to benefit the less well off will inevitably result in unforeseen negative consequences (as it distorts market forces which are basically God in this theology). For example, cost benefit analysis reveals many aspects of the welfare state result in increased benefits to society even in crude economic terms (e.g. spending on education often=higher GDP). Ditto increased expenditure on catching tax evaders brings in more than it costs. Any such analysis is dismissed out of hand. It is more accurate to say that under Neo-liberalsim any Government expenditure on the working or poor is treated to ruthless cost cutting (I guess cost-cost analysis rather than cost-benefit analysis!). Edited to add: think about DOGE for example, there was no consideration for the benefits done away with, it is solely about cost reduction.

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Are there diffrent kind of Probaganda ? Like Probaganda in Neoliberalism, probaganda in socialism or probaganda in theocratcy ?

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— @Pignuglama

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You are a funny man! 🤣 You talk about ‘Profit’ as something to be criticized. You probably hope to earn some money from having a youtube channel. Any money you make that exceeds the cost of producing your channel is called ‘profit’ . Why would any sane person start a business, large or small, if there was no likelihood of profit. The pursuit of profit on the part of tech companies is why you have the technology to have a youtube channel, and why I have the technology to watch it. Wake up!

@JimAyers-q5p
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Vegan and lgbtq is the example

@ahmadkarim1881
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My mom said that psyops were like one and done things. My response was “our government is ALWAYS trying to psychologically manipulate us. It is nonstop.”

@mrmagicmase
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What's worse is that mostly people hear things for the first time and without even knowing they start believing it without doing their due diligence.

@Glayre
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It is really necessary to analyse propaganda.

@GlobalPropagandaLab
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Enough said open back up Abu Ghrabi. Weapons that don't exist constitute it.❤

@Roman-NotRamen
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"Free Palestine" is top of the food chain when it comes to propaganda.

@D93-w5q
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American spends more on propaganda than any other country. Because it got the most serious problems that it needs to distract its citizens from. And of course to dumb its citizens into never voting for laws that help their lives like socialist policies!

@moonyue1998
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Those you are least allowed to criticize are those who run the world.

@MacaroniThunderstorm
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I hate to tell you, but Bernays was correct. The masses are asses.

@uncletrick1
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(insert garfield image here)

@BeamAttackTheOriginal
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I AM!!!!!!
How u know im not 😅😅😅 are you hitler and can read my brain?

@Chingski
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informative video

@ShsnsBsbdhs
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I had a good education. THE most important thing it taught me was TO THINK FOR MYSELF and NOT to blindly believe everything I was told! That includes 95% of the lies and crap the "education" system was trying to indoctrinate me with!!!
Brainwashed by adverts, fake news, government lies & corruption et al. To sell me crap I didn't want or need.
I seldom trust anyone I don't actually know. I shall die alone with the ONLY person I now truly trust - ME!

@petervick4775
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15:05 and then still degrade people of the job isn't "cool" or "flashy" enough.

@akingbaboluwatife
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"Obsessed with this! ❤️"

@FatCatTV-r1g
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What a vague definition of propaganda though. "Dissemination of information, facts, arguments, rumors, half-truths, or lies to influence public opinion" includes like almost everything

@sqweed653
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Anti capitalist propaganda.But I respect it

@Sean-mr2vs
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In the case of Cambodia, the words “peace” and “victim” are often used as a cover — but behind them lies something more: a pattern of false claims and cultural appropriation.

@wachi-eg4pt
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this was more about politics than actual propaganda damnit

@iwatchmostlymathvideos
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Good video ❤

@sirfelix77
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Really western news on Israel Palestine war shows how smartly they do propaganda

@TIKTOKFEDERALAGENT
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@4:41 So... We do this to ourselves?

@ErikThierheimer
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uhhhhhhhh this is propaganda my dude.....

@Synk-Archive
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Humans are nothing, just stupid sheep who will go along with whatever is trendy or cool. They are sheep, this is true.

@Hi-lmaoooooooo