internet funeral

Yes I am! This government pamphlet I got says so!

Huh, I wonder who that's for.

Lack of immunity does not mean you cannot become resistant to it. Like with all things education will free you. It's just a matter of finding enough of it and from the right sources

But, but I'm special

I don't need to be immune to propaganda. I live in [country], the best country of the world. We don't need no propaganda, that's just something that [other side of globe] countries do, as well as [neighbour country] of course.

Hexbear people are very immune to propaganda. Maybe even reverse immune

this is a god reminder on lemmy

While this is true, the complete absence of foreign and/or free media in some countries doesn't even give you a chance of forming educated opinions.

Eh. The older I get, the more neutral and apathetic I get. Everything seems to come from some direction with a degree of bias.

It's like fed articles on the war in Ukraine. If things were as positive as articles from both sides regularly claim, it wouldn't be where it is in Sep 2023. I get propaganda is also used to positively influence morale and support—and I encourage it for Ukraine—but it sure would be nice to see more unbiased reporting and posting. As it is, just got to kind of determine a median of the propaganda and that's likely the actual situation.

The most frustrating part about not being influenced by propaganda is that pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine people that have been susceptible to propaganda will attack you from both directions at the same time. Regardless of the topic/issue, this seems to be a good indicator that you're closely aligned to fact rather than story.

Edit: I see my lagged and incoming downvotes are the aforementioned pro-xxxxx doing exactly as I said they do. As far as I'm concerned, it's downvoting the opinion of accurate information distributed to allow critical assessment of individuals—since that's obviously the opposite of propaganda. I'd be interested to know the opinion of why someone downvoted me since the topic is about propaganda. If it's because you're pro-Russia or pro-Ukraine, well, thank you for participating in proving the point. The confirmation would be good though as long as it doesn't turn into an off-tipic debate around the War in Ukraine, which isn't actually the topic here, just an example used of the thousands but chosen for it's comminality and relevance right now

I know. That's why I got rid of tv in the 90s and won't stay where commercial radio is being played.

Especially Garfield! Perfectly designed to worm himself into the minds of those in corporate America.

There's this sentiment that all journalism cannot be trusted. But if so, how does anyone ever get to find out anything at all? Word of mouth? Gut feeling? Distrust of journalism is reasonable, but not good enough. There are specific reasons why misinformation exists and you need to know WHY that is so. Because otherwise you discount information which is true, and the end result is the same as you'd get with blind trust: A false understanding of the world.