Trump considers a murderous dictator, Vladimir Putin, his friend and our ally, while calling one of our most loyal allies, Canada, nasty people. This is disgusting and disgraceful! ๐คฌ
She got escorted out of a Trump rally and still made sure he got the message on her way out. ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
And of course, Trump claimed protesters were paid. Sir, some people genuinely canโt stand you. For free.
I fucking love this woman.โ๏ธ
If you watch anything today, let it be this.
Ukraine hit Russian data centres and suddenly there was a dramatic drop in the online hate and division being amplified across the West, including in Germany, the UK, the US and France.
Russia has spent years using bots and coordinated accounts to spread fear, resentment and hostility.
Why?
Because they understand propaganda.
Social proof + repetition + emotional conditioning = incredibly effective propaganda.
Humans use the behaviour of other people as a shortcut for deciding what is normal and sometimes what is true. If you see thousands of apparently independent accounts saying the same thing, your brain starts to perceive that as a consensus.
Repeat a claim often enough and you get the illusory truth effect. Constantly feed someone stories about migrant crime, for example, and those stories become disproportionately available in their memory. Your brain then starts to overestimate how common that crime actually is.
Add fear and anger and you have an incredibly powerful way of influencing people.
And this is why propaganda works. It isnโt necessarily about convincing you of one big lie. Itโs about changing what you think is normal, what you think other people believe, and what you are afraid of.
The most effective propaganda is the propaganda you donโt recognise as propaganda.
So many people reading this will be absolutely certain they arenโt being influenced by Russian propaganda. Theyโll believe what they feel is patriotism. That theyโre protecting their country, their families, their communities.
But ask yourself where those feelings came from.
Because if a hostile foreign power can make you more fearful of your neighbours, more hostile towards minorities, less trusting of democracy and more divided from your fellow citizens, it doesnโt need you to support Russia.
It just needs you to help weaken your own country.
Meanwhile....MAGA youth pastor Zachary Radcliff and featured singer at CPAC, now faces 60 charges sex crimes against children.
When I tell you it's all of them, it's ALL of them.