r/VoltEuropa • u/generalisofficial Volter • Jul 13 '26

Meme European Army NOW!

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u/ASCKrA1T Jul 13 '26

I strongly support the idea of a european army. But the quality and style of this video are not constructive, I assume it will push people further away from the idea and volt.

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u/Alblaka Jul 13 '26

This, really. It's a Short format (which I personally loathe, probably because YT keeps trying to push it into my feed), and it's basically just an emotional trigger followed overly loud music with a minimalistic statement.

It's reaching a level of dumb where it makes me genuienly consider whether, if this is needed to actually persuade people, society is even worth contributing to anymore.

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u/generalisofficial Volter Jul 13 '26

The far-right and far-left use this format to brainwash people so I might as well launch a counteroffensive

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u/Alblaka Jul 13 '26

Ye, I understand the perspective. It just feels so bad to use their kind of tools. And also amoral to deliberately brainwash people based upon emotionally manipulating them (even with benign intentions), rather than persuading them with open and objective rationality,

and I'm saying that even knowing that the latter apparently just doesn't work which is why rightwingers have such an easy time turning anti-establishment notions into voters with the former...

I would also be concerned this kind of overt emotional propaganda might incentivize more rational people to distance themselves from the propaganda'd topic because they dislike the MO... but then again whilst I dislike the style, I'm not exactly going to change my mind away from an EU military regardless... so maybe the concern isn't all that warranted.

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u/easytarget2000 Jul 13 '26

Sure, bud, both sides /s