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by rc_bhg 2803 days ago
It's basically propaganda. Propaganda is generally agreed to be a bad thing for a true democracy.
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Actually, propaganda is agreed to be a good thing for a democracy. It's why we have free press and free speech laws.

Many of the founders ran printing presses or newspapers to push their own propaganda. The most prominent being alexander hamilton and the NY Post.

What is bad for democracy is censorship ( aka one sided propaganda ).

It is no more propaganda than #maga or #orangecheeto or #impeachtrump. It is political satire and commentary.
Propaganda for what?
How in the world is criticizing the capacity of a persons ability to critically think by using memes Propaganda.

I'm right wing and I find the boxed responses from leftest to line up with some of the NPC stuff I saw.