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Parent Post: Propaganda is confirmation bias.
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sonatime
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8/14/2026, 8:21:03 AM
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I think the reality of the public relations in practice can be less logically obvious and more nuanced. I agree that pure messaging alone rarely converts people. But propaganda gets a lot more effective when it comes with social costs: smearing, public shaming, being called unpatriotic, etc. The process becomes the cost and that chilling effect keeps a lot of people quiet even without formal punishment. Wartime examples with conscientious objectors show it pretty clearly. Big obvious lies can also work as bait, the more outrageous they are, the more attention they get. People react, share, and argue, which spreads them further. The old “big lie” idea (often linked to Hitler, though he was actually accusing others of using it) is that a claim so huge feels less likely to be invented, so some people give it more weight than a smaller, more ordinary lie. When that gets mixed with social pressure or consequences, it becomes harder to push back against.
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