Re:US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks
by ailef on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:06AM
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I'm really baffled by this. For example in the US, it's enough to just associate something with Russia for everyone to immediately drop any kind of critical thinking. You don't even have to provide compelling evidence for it. The association alone (real or made up) is already enough to completely corrupt the subject's image. This trick has been played dozens of times but somehow people still fall for it...
Re:US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks
by johnnyanmac on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:56AM
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Or China.
>This trick has been played dozens of times but somehow people still fall for it...
and will keep falling for it. They can keep doing it because it keeps working, and people won't bother thinking a little bit deeper about the issue.
A whole lot of issues could be solved or on a good path to being solved if more people did that.
Anything a gov or an ideology doesn’t like often gets labeled conspiracy theory, [foreign] disinformation/collusion, terrorism, fascism. Some times throw throw more than one accusation at the idea they despise. Obviously sometimes those accusations are true in order to work, but it’s getting ridiculous now.