617 propaganda and other baloney

Two blog posts in a week? What's happening? 

Well, to be honest... I'm reading a paper book. And right now I'm lying in bed next to my wife in the dark. At this time, I might normally read an ebook. But I'm reading a paper book, which requires a light. So instead, you get to look at my old screenshots. 

Let's start with framing. Framing is one part of propaganda. At top, a literal demonstration of framing, or cropping, really. 

Here's another one. This is how Fox News covered the depraved drug party called BurningMan:

And here's how an attendee captured their arts festival in the desert:

Same event, same day and weather, even. 

What else is in my phone? 

(Why we see homeless camps piled high with trash.) (Oh, plus it's hard to get trash service with no address.)

Sometimes you don't have to say much to get your point across. 


Um, see what you will in this graph. One thing I might be seeing is the curve of microplastics replacing lead in our brains. 

"We."

"The."

"People."

What are there no Subarus or Toyotas in DC?

So if you don't get this joke, a "sunset town" is a place where it's dangerous to be someone other than the descendent of a colonist after dark. Here in the INW, one way you can spot these places is the lack of "foreign" cars. 


Tech wants us to think it's the only future. It's not. Especially not for us skinbags.


Punching down is their game. Why make it ours?


And other things we're not going to hear from the mainstream media. One of the telling tells in this slide into authoritarianism has been the absolute caving of the media. What coup?


What will we do for workers after we've rounded up all the workers? 

Oh. Pay them less, of course. 









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