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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by KirinDave on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:52AM (#21270991)
> Why do you find this story scary? It seems like a sensible way for a political party to get votes: profile your current supporters, find other people who fit that profile, convince those people to vote for you too.

I'm going to take the bold stance that: yes, fascists renting time on sophisticated ad networks to spread pro-fascist propaganda is in fact scary.

This is not a case of a simply political party pushing a policy agenda. This is a dangerous, militant and xenophobic group attempting to target individuals with materials designed to stoke fear and subtly misinform the public.

So yeah, it is scary. It's also scary that they had help from American interests. It speaks to how far right American politics are sliding.

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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by hos234 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:18AM (#21271305)
It's scary but we evolve and learn from it. While they can be targeted with fear and misinformation. The opposite also holds.

They can be targeted to diffuse fear and inject purpose, hope etc. Which is the thesis of the book Nudge (by Nobel winner Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein who tried doing this during the Obama Administration)

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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:10PM (#21278319)
as much as I support the aspiration, I do not see this working practically, well, funded, and not being abused for propaganda. I think the practical solution is to forbid foreign interests from financing attack ads and political campaigns, be they from US or Russia. And to enforce this vigilantly, with tough penalties.
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