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jmbar2

(8,045 posts) Sat Apr 13, 2019, 11:04 AM Apr 2019

The 9/11 clip -- Learn about the "Firehose of Outrageousness" propaganda tactic. [View all]

Everything Trump does at this point is to continuously stoke outrage among his opponents. It is a well-known and documented Russian propaganda technique designed to wear you down into a sense of hopelessness and passive acceptance of autocracy.

Check out Teri Kanefield's thread on how the "firehose" tactic works, with suggestions for responding to it. It is one of the best threads I have read in months on dealing with Trump fatigue.

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The 9/11 clip -- Learn about the "Firehose of Outrageousness" propaganda tactic. [View all] jmbar2 Apr 2019 OP

How to counteract the fire hose technique pangaia Apr 2019 #1

I like all of the tools listed to fight rump's gutter mouth. The best one, that we all control, ... SWBTATTReg Apr 2019 #9

Don't feel hopeless, take it for what it is, lies, and mock the source... Thomas Hurt Apr 2019 #2

Scary, but we're not the only ones immune to these Hortensis Apr 2019 #3

Unfortunately, we are not immune to the effect. marylandblue Apr 2019 #8

Over 60 million Americans voted against them and for Hortensis Apr 2019 #10

"Quantity does indeed have a quality all its own." VOX Apr 2019 #4

Yes. "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth," Hortensis Apr 2019 #6

Gee, the Russian model... So that's what tRump and Putin were talking about... PeeJ52 Apr 2019 #5

See what you're doing? You exhibit erosion of belief in our Hortensis Apr 2019 #7

And part of that model is to make you distrust the press marylandblue Apr 2019 #11

I don't scream at my TV, and I don't believe in fairy tales... PeeJ52 Apr 2019 #12

You do what you like. Nothing wrong with writing to CNN. marylandblue Apr 2019 #13

Excellent! If our journalists simply learned not to repeat IndyOp Apr 2019 #14