• tranarchist@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      it’s a funny image with text, I think that classifies as a meme, no matter if you like, dislike, agree or disagree with it

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      The CCP and Kremlin use propaganda on social media to divided people. Citizens vs police is one of their favorite ways of doing it.

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        The CCP and Kremlin use propaganda on social media to divided people. Citizens vs police is one of their favorite ways of doing it.

        Nah. This is dumb if given even a moment’s thought.

        CCP and Russia benefit from a corporate plutocracy, police enforce plutocracy. Therefore to enforce that continued plutocracy they desire a strong police presence in the United States, the same way they do in their own country. Autocrat playbook 101.

        Sure unrest is useful, after unrest the police just get more funding. Plutocracy is useful because corporations will openly attack (via lobbyists) the government of the United States if it encroaches on their profits, install corporate dummies like Trump Vance Thomas Gorsich to weaken the governments ability to resist corporate influence, and go about their day, corporations are the true enemies of the United States because corporate interests will sabotage anything for a favorable quarterly profit call.

        So then let’s think about your words. Your target audience is those citizens who are criticizing the police… and trying to paint criticism of the police as playing into the hands of “scary buzzwords!! CCP!! Russia!! KGB!!”. That is silly. Like I said with even a moment’s thought it makes no sense, that said… maybe your post targets those who cannot muster a thought. It is a large market.

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        Those of us terrorized by the police for generations don’t need propaganda to tell us who the police are. Your statement just reveals the wonderful position of privilege you enjoy in the system.

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        Yep. And back in the days of the USSR, the Kremlin would rant about how racist Jim Crow was. The North Vietnamese dropped leaflets on US bases encouraging black soldiers to defect because the US government was using them as cannon fodder.

        This was propaganda and it was also true.

        If China and Russia are spreading propaganda about police brutality in the US, the solution isn’t to silence criticism of the police. The solution is to reform the goddamn police.