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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
It's not my photo it's the Taliban's own propoganda.
There is nothing to win at GFY anyway. I guess I just found hostile children with AK 47s training in the Afghan dessert a little troubling.
Silly me, must be an Afghan scout meeting ... it's all just good fun. |
Hopefully, you do realize that groups often create fake/disinformation images/stories (known as "Black Propaganda"), to demonize their enemies.
Another way to view it would be by noting that indeed some groups have occasionally used kids or women as guerillas in order to spook the foreign combatants into fearing them, or into shooting first and asking questions later, in the hopes that this will in turn cause the local population to turn even more against the foreign troops.
A few examples of Black Propaganda:
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The Black Panther Coloring Book was distributed in the United States in the late 1960s in an attempt to discredit the Black Panther Party, and the civil rights movement in general.
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Perhaps you have heard of COINTELPRO (if not, look it up):
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The FBI's strategy was captured in a 1968 memo: "Consider the use of cartoons, photographs, and anonymous letters which will have the effect of ridiculing the New Left. Ridicule is one of the most potent weapons which we can use against it."
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Stoned talk: So what if Beck, Jones, Limbaugh, Savage, et al, are all in fact partisan political operatives, and conspiracy theory sheep are being manipulated to fall for patently ridiculous crap, in order to turn otherwise simply skeptical people into crackpots that no sane person would follow.
More likely these far-right media pundits are simply what they appear to be, Republican/Libertarian/Tea Party operatives, that use propaganda to obfuscate their real agenda (running interference for their partisan political/capitalist masters).
One thing that cannot be disputed is that Beck, Jones, Limbaugh, and Savage, have made millions off of bigotry and fear. Meanwhile they have turned their followers into a bunch of mindless ditto-heads ready to instantly embrace all kinds of ridiculous conspiracy theories, and in the process turning intelligent civil political discourse in this country into a joke.
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