There’s an old propaganda trick where you falsify a concept by attaching a series of misleading images to it and changing people’s perception.
We can observe how it works using the example of how illegal migration is discussed in the wake of Trump’s win. All of a sudden, there’s a large number of stories about immigrants who came in 30 years ago and have been having children and paying taxes in this country. Deportations that Trump promised are linked to the image of a sweet grandma who came over in 1963 and has become completely integrated into the American society since then.
Thus our mental picture of who will be targeted by deportations and what mass migration actually looks like is falsified. It’s never mentioned in these manipulative stories that this month several thousand migrants entered the country illegally. Since January this year, at least 1,5 million – MILLION – entered the country illegally. This is vaunted as a massive achievement of the Biden administration because it represents a drop from 2,2 million in 2022. These are only the recorded cases, mind you.
Since September, more than 300,000 people came in illegally. Remember September? That was a short time ago. These hundreds of thousands of people haven’t had time to contribute to the economy. Have you experienced any great change to the economy since then? I definitely haven’t. Asking these people to leave will already constitute a mass deportation. And the money currently spent on transporting, housing and feeding them can be used for something else. Today, tomorrow and the day after there will be thousands more coming in because Biden is still president. And instead of discussing that, we have been hoodwinked into talking about the unfairness of deporting the 1963 grandma. Our brains have been hacked and an entirely erroneous picture of what mass deportations will mean was installed there.
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the media has done this about virtually every issue related to Trump.
he wants the 2025 agenda, he’s Hitler, he wants to create the Handmaids Tale etc.
I’m not sure I can hate the media more at this point.
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Every single one. Imagine the magnitude of his win without this relentless, daily propaganda. It is extraordinary that he won this big in spite of the media lies. A brilliant campaign that needs to be studied as an example of extraordinary strategy making. A great example of American excellence.
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Prepare yourself for the gut-wrenching stories about mass deportations you’re about to get. Leftists hyper-personalize things they care about. You’ll see amazingly written stories in the New Yorker and the Atlantic about specific people whose families were separated. They’ll win Pulitzers, too. But things they don’t care about like crime, drugs, destruction of communities, the urban decay, etc. are always treated as abstract forces of nature. Things that are inevitable, like climate change. Never personalized. You can’t put a human face to it, and that’s by design because that’ll naturally lead to you to sympathize with people who suffer the consequences of their wretched policies. They can’t allow it.
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I’ve read the gut-wrenching stories of the children of Salvadorans who went to the US because it was so easy. This devastated their communities. We are hurting people on both sides of the border with this. It needs to stop.
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