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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“ICE is using social listening not to amplify one political aisle, but to better understand how they’re perceived; especially by audiences who may distrust them. They want to listen, build trust, and communicate more effectively as an agency that serves all Americans,”

LOL "distrust" is way too mild. More like abhor, hate, loathe... any acronym for hate would do.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You ever read a lie so brazen that you know for a fact the person that wrote it knew it sounded absurd and ran with it anyway?

[–] msage@programming.dev 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fascists do not only lie tactically, to “con” enemies or the masses. According to Finchelstein, fascists also lie as a matter of epistemological principle, since they view the truth as something created and enforced by violence, not as something to be discovered. Paradoxically, then, fascists’ lying has an element of honesty: a sincere and genuine rejection of the idea that their beliefs could ever be rationally proven or disproven, since they believe their beliefs are simply intuitively known to the select few destined for power, or conveyed by the leader or movement to the followers. However, as Finchelstein points out, and as Kahn-Harris’s and Leeb’s work help illuminate, fascists also lie for disingenuous, psychological reasons—that is, fascists lie as a mechanism of denial, to protect their consciences from awareness of what they are doing and to hide from “unspeakable truths” about themselves.

[–] juspie@piefed.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Very insightful! Thank you for this comment @msage@programming.dev

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was just quoting someone else, those were not my own words.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Sharing insightful shit deserves praise too, thanks for sharing friend

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

But yeah, they just want propaganda