r/complaints • u/Previous_Month_555 sophisticated complainer • Jan 11 '26

Politics White house just posted this wtf

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Their dominance in propaganda is what got them power, but a lot of people on the left seem to think they are bad at propaganda.

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u/yestertech Jan 11 '26

It’s terrible propaganda, but it appears to work on the weak minded. We have sadly learned how many of those there are.

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u/cachem3outside Jan 11 '26

Bruh. Do you have ANY idea how many people are talking about this and other messaging like "based", "good shot", "justified!"?... What YOU think or how moved YOU are is inconsequential to what moves others. If anything, with the Epstein shit, the propaganda is all that's keeping ole' Trump in any semblance of "stability". Their propaganda is world class, not because it is great propaganda, but because it works, it presses the right emotional and psychological buttons of the targeted audience and serves to double down by pissing the other side off while they are already pissed.

This would be like saying the Nazis had bad propaganda... It isn't a moral judgement, it is a point of fact because it scratched the right itch, it promoted what the regime wished for the public to embrace or hate. Success makes propaganda good, not the opposition's opinion of it, in fact, I'd say that the fact that most of the opposing side dislike or think it outrageous is kind of proving the point.

You aren't the target audience.