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Bretton Garcia

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9. We can all agree that Trump is awful

Mon Oct 14, 2019, 02:23 AM

Oct 2019

He likes very simple, repeated, punchy - propagandistic - phrases, insults, labels.

One of the major methods of propagada is repetition. Send out a simple message. And repeat it until everyone has memorized and internalized it.

His insulting names often rhyme or pun too: "shifty" Schiff. etc..

He's a kind of poet laureate of vulgarity. Oral crudity.

Even spoken language is machine-like; a highly organized contrivance, or programming. And Trump knows how to pervert that.

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Newsflash: A book is a form of technology... [View all] NeoGreen Oct 2019 OP

And the first book printed edhopper Oct 2019 #1

A a poorly edited book of iron age fantasies... NeoGreen Oct 2019 #2

Technology inevitably corrupts? guillaumeb Oct 2019 #3

Creative speculation leads me to believe that Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #4

That is indeed creative speculation. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #5

Pence's programming was done with peer pressure; Trump the bot "thinks" he has no peer! n/t Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #7

Marshall McLuhan was the first big scholar here. Bretton Garcia Oct 2019 #6

An excellent point about Trump, and his weaknesses. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #8

We can all agree that Trump is awful Bretton Garcia Oct 2019 #9

"a poet laureate of vulgarity". guillaumeb Oct 2019 #12

It beat out the clay tablet and the vellum codex in the Great Format War of 43 BCE. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #10

Yes, and my point being (paraphrasing JFK)... NeoGreen Oct 2019 #11

Rep? Sounds interesting Bretton Garcia Oct 2019 #13