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Re:Pyramid of Capitalist System by busterarm on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:11AM (#22256504)
Why is this even so high on HN? This isn't interesting news -- it's both a wikipedia page and propaganda. We're told to eschew flamebait in comments, but not for submissions?

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> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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Re:Pyramid of Capitalist System by WilliamEdward on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:17AM (#22256561)
is it propaganda because you don't like the message?
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Re:Pyramid of Capitalist System by int_19h on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:21AM (#22266767)
It's propaganda because it's trying to advance a political or ideological agenda by influencing the audience through an emotional argument. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with that - any successful political ideology does this, because that's how you organize mass movements.
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