Wondering how the GOP can call teachers pedophiles 1 hr and then the next propose arming them?

[Nevilledog]

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Wondering how the GOP can call teachers communists and pedophiles one hour and then the next propose arming them with guns in the classroom? Don't waste your time.

It doesn't make sense. it doesn't need to make sense. it's not supposed to make sense.
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5:29 AM · May 28, 2022

The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html


Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia (if not before), there has been a remarkable evolution in Russia's approach to propaganda. This new approach was on full display during the country's 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula. It continues to be demonstrated in support of ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and in pursuit of nefarious and long-term goals in Russia's “near abroad” and against NATO allies.

In some ways, the current Russian approach to propaganda builds on Soviet Cold War–era techniques, with an emphasis on obfuscation and on getting targets to act in the interests of the propagandist without realizing that they have done so.1 In other ways, it is completely new and driven by the characteristics of the contemporary information environment. Russia has taken advantage of technology and available media in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War. Its tools and channels now include the Internet, social media, and the evolving landscape of professional and amateur journalism and media outlets.

Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda

High-volume and multichannel
Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
Lacks commitment to objective reality
Lacks commitment to consistency.

We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”2

Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.

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[Claustrum]

1. I wonder if it's one of their tactics to force out the "liberal" teachers

because they would likely refuse to bring a gun in classroom and then they will quit in droves. That leaves the right winger to be in those positions. They did the same thing in the federal government during TFG era. Have the agencies enforce some terrible policies and the principled people quitted.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yes I am thinking the same thing. Get rid of educated, sensible teachers

who have a moral compass.

The GOP goal is to destroy all American institutions.

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. The liberal teachers

might sell the gun to buy school supplies.

And you know that anything GOP legislatures spend on "School Security" will be paid for by cuts to other education spending because they sure aren't going to raise taxes.

[Turbineguy]

2. They understand armed pedophiles.

[relayerbob]

3. Cognitive dissonance is strong in them

It's one of the major attributes that the propagandists on Fox and RT use to capture their victims

[Girard442]

4. TL;DR: Throwing poop at the wall to see what sticks.

[Midnight Writer]

5. As Steve Bannon said, "Flood the media with bullshit."

With so much disinformation, nonsense, fantasy, distractions, deflections and outright lies being pushed on us every day, who can honestly say they are never confused by it all?

[czarjak]

7. Knowing known-knowns is helpful.

[brewens]

8. I suppose grooming the little ones at gunpoint is working well at their private religious

schools, so why not?

[IcyPeas]

9. they want teachers to do the job that trained cops were too afraid to do.