#CounterPropaganda

[girlactionfigure]

The escalating Palestinian propaganda is a challenge we must meet head-on. It's not merely about twisting the Jewish narrative, but an assault on the world's understanding of historical truth.

This issue transcends boundaries of religion or ethnicity. It's a calculated attempt to undermine universal values of truth and justice, weaving a story that contradicts the Jewish people's historical, unbroken bond with Israel.

The propaganda might be persuasive to some, but it crumbles against the robust wall of documented evidence, archaeological findings, and the lived Jewish experience. Our narrative supports Jewish historical presence and rights in Israel.

We must challenge and actively counter these distortions. It's a responsibility for anyone standing for truth, for justice. Let's ensure the truth isn't masked. Let's protect the narrative of a people from being rewritten by propaganda.

Remember, we're not alone in this fight. Historical evidence, documented truths stand with us. Let's stand firm, uphold truth, and maintain justice.

grouchomaccabee

#CounterPropaganda #StandWithTruth #israel #jew #jewish #endjewhatred #HistoricalIntegrity #JusticeForAll #TrueNarrative #SpeakUpForTruth #DocumentedTruth #GlobalResponsibility #UpholdJustice #StandAgainstDistortion #KnowTheFacts #StandForJustice

[eric-sadahire]

U.S. Department of Misinformation

OK... first thing we do is... Release a memo that we don't really exist.

#thefuckingirony #notreally #departmentofmisinformation #uninformed #officialrelease #wedontexist #humor #fakenews #propaganda #counterpropaganda #painting #acrylic #artoftheday #artwork #dailyartwork #tumblarians #artist on tumblr #lowbrowart #outsiderart #kunst #flomm #flommist #handpaintedbeercoaster #sadahirecoasters #beercoaster #beermat #perspective

[kecleonplush]

“you should go out and vote at every chance you get for people who will support and defend your rights” and “we need to do more collectively as citizens to enact direct action and affect real change” are compatible beliefs and calls to action that anyone can do together. don’t listen to the people telling you not to vote.

#so sick of people buying into this 'don't vote' counterpropaganda #the system is broken but it's DESIGNED to keep you from engaging with it #but we can fight it from both ends #voting takes you an hour at most if you set aside time to do it #not everyone can do that of course #and the system is working against you to keep you from voting #but I'm sure as shit that a lot of armchair leftists #can find time in their busy posting schedules #to check a few boxes on a form

[radio-charlie]

Idk about switching one sus global power for another sus one but it's ok. Each day I try for an actual moral stance while people get their non binary cocks sucked into dessication for doing copywriting and pretending to have problems

#But u know la how I don't work hard. Not like mulling everything relevant over doing outreach research counterpropaganda etc was a round a c #Including the one where I was working two physical labor jobs 6 days a week #While dealing w redacted #Fucking failures focused on pointing fingers and acting like I should be grateful #For what barely amounts to compensation at all

[opencommunion]

h. clinton said there can’t be a ceasefire because “hamas would spend that time preparing to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the israelis.” so she admits that the occupation would break the ceasefire first and that hamas would be in the defensive position

(obligatory counterpropaganda reminder that palestinians in gaza are calling for a ceasefire so they can bury their dead, get basic supplies, and stop the spread of disease)

#palestine

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Just saw one of the friendlier, more literate faces of maoism on here has an effortpost on why it was necessary and just for the athenians to execute socrates on charges of impiety against the state religion

In a testament to their hated enemy freedom of expression, the best counterpropaganda to ML theory remains ML theory

[goodcopbatcop]

"Good Cop, Bat Cop" — a poll tournament to find the Batman character who is closest to being "basically a cop"

Batman is a costumed crime-fighter created in 1939. Since then, there has been ever-evolving discussion about what "crime", "fighting", and "crime-fighting" entail—and what all that means for Batman's relationship to his local police.

Batman makes friends, makes enemies, and becomes a middle-aged father of 3, 4, 5+ kids—and the discussion carries over to this large and debatably colorful cast.

Now we pit these fictional characters against each other in a poll tournament, to determine which among them is "a cop" in spirit.

Mɪssɪᴏɴ ʙʀɪᴇғ

Follow Tumblr community guidelines, and uphold good sportsmanship.

Submit Batman characters as contestants. Regular GCPD personnel (such as Commissioner Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Ellen Yin, et cetera) are ineligible. Ace the Bat-Hound, Batcow, Jarro, Bat-Mite, and other "joke characters" are eligible.

Submit propaganda arguing why certain characters are "a cop" in spirit.

Submit counterpropaganda arguing why certain characters are "not a cop" in spirit.

Strengthen your claims by including sources.

All officially published materials count. Core universe. Current timeline and old timelines. Retconned stuff. Elseworlds, alternate universes. Adaptations. Advertising materials.

Doylist and Watsonian readings are accepted.

Submissions through the Google form are anonymous. Responses are planned to be posted publicly.

Add "@goodcopbatcop" to posts that are relevant to this discussion.

Please send in content warnings that should be tagged.

Have fun~!

The double-elimination tournament brackets are planned to be posted at the beginning of April, soon followed by the polls.

Tagging: @dc-event-calendar @controversial-blorbo-bracket @hot-take-tournament @copaganda-clobberfest @misrepresentedmorallygrey @batfamtournament @hubristicassholefight @horriblemanprotagonistshowdown @tournament-announcer

credit to firefly-graphics for the Batman divider

#goodcopbatcop #fandom polls #gotham city #batman #batman comics #bruce wayne #lyle bolton #vicki vale #tim drake #harold allnut #leslie thompkins #dick grayson #officer grayson #kate kane #barbara gordon #jason todd #helena bertinelli #blacklist tags will be posted before the beginning of the tournament

[blackbonnet]

show on liberal cable network satirizing media+ corporations is not like the epitome of anti capitalist counterpropaganda. at all. but jesus christ engage and investigate art for a second and stop talking about tomgreg

#succession #sure talk about tom and greg but literally tomgreg is toxic filth rotting the state of discourse around the show here on tumblr

[veneskaa]

ok now i need to know about your OC(s)

Askslkklfjakfjkajfkdajfk i have several scattered across the star wars universe but the one i mostly work with is Mirian, co-protagonist of the long fic i've been working on since about 2021 (although it was kind of just vibes and bad drafts back then). that fic has a ton of supporting ocs but she's my Main Girl always

we meet her basically right between "andor" and "rogue one," when a mission cassian's working takes a severe wrong turn and goes from about one month to almost six. She's a civilian in charge of a settlement of about a thousand people (most of whom were forcibly relocated when the Empire destroyed their homes), living and working under Imperial rule. She's lived in what the Empire calls a "Refuge Center" (little more than an open-air prison) since she was a child. Early on her mother took charge of managing the needs of their community; after she died the job sort of just passed to Mirian. But because of the kind of weaponry used on the moon in Republic days, and the kind of work the Empire forces residents into, many of them end up chronically ill, including Mirian. Cassian, whose original mission depended on being undercover in a specific position, is transferred to her sector as an assistant/aide to try to keep the work from killing her.

When he's been there several weeks and she's no longer crushed by the workload on top of her illness, we see her as a kind woman in her mid-twenties who devotes her life to advocating for others' needs (frequently at the expense of her own - she's long made peace with death and thinks that slowly killing yourself for other people is just What You Do). she's also riddled with anxiety about what will happen to the people she's trying to protect if she makes a single mistake and attempts to work peaceably for the Empire. Cassian correctly identifies that behavior as being ultimately complicit in the Imperial disciplinary surveillance state, but in such an isolated place the options for rebellion are rare and dangerous. As they grow closer he's working partly with and partly against her conviction that every life is worth the same, and her prioritization of finding and telling the truth.

Mirian also has a natural talent for storytelling. She collects stories from friends and neighbors over the years and makes some of her own; during sector-wide celebrations her stories are in high demand. (and i'm super super normal about storyteller | truthseeker Mirian vs rebel spy Cassian i promise). When she makes it to the Rebellion she falls in with the analyst department, specifically with their media analysts and on-the-run journalists, and begins studying Imperial propaganda. (And she's never had access to the Holonet before! She never got to just pore over information like this! she's so excited to finally be able to engage with the outside world fdjkajf). Eventually she helps to produce and disseminate Rebel counterpropaganda- Cassian's a big fan of this develpment; working mostly over the holonet and with the comms department keeps her more or less out of the line of fire. also i have no sources about the Rebellion actually having devoted media analysts but counterpropaganda is an important part of pretty much all real-world revolutions and i get to do what i want

#thank you for asking ajfdkasljfkldsafjl #i literally love her so much she's such a real person to me #and it's bonkers that she doesn't exist in other people's brains and will ONLY exist there once i actually write the fic #hate that :) #mutuals 💕 #inbox #oc: mirian #fic: tstmats

[loving-family-poll]

not sure if propaganda or counterpropaganda, but I don’t think Cath x Heathcliff are incestuous at all. I read the book as a young teenband thought nothing of it and was surprised later to discover that there was this whole incest debate. However, they do win points for creating the next generation of all around cousin!fucking :)

Regardless of their incest status they are undeniably founding freaks of the freaks who came after

#asks #not a poll

[amerasdreams]

Maybe I have to. Not pay attention to what's going on in the world. I have enough things on my own to deal with. And really, what could i accomplish? How could i help? When I can't even help myself

Maybe thats why I couldn't go back to sleep-- my mind seemed wide awake, thinking about Ukraine and russia. I couldn't believe it was still only 4 a.m. Mind started rattling on about it trying to solve it lol-- nonsensical in middle of night and not productive and just makes me more tired.....

Maybe just... not look at it before bed. I thought I was fine. Bc I scaled back a bit since May bc I couldn't sleep. I thought i had gotten "used" to it. But no. Basically all I did yesterday, after the mobilization announcement. YouTube captured me. I was like this is more important than anything i could do, historic. President Zelensky's UN address at the pets house before bed.

I did figure that I really have to stop watching anything about the war after supper or. I can't sleep. I wake up at like 4 and cant go back to sleep (lots of stuff does this but. I know part of it was the war bc thats where my thoughts went) part may have been headache too

I was like I have to focus on this... job pales in comparison. Make some kind of influential blog -- even do YouTube or gasp tiktok.... put my face on? But that's how ppl influence others.

This vague idea of helping. Counterpropaganda. Osint. Writing for good! Ideas! Doing stuff that actually works

But who am I kidding. I'm not an expert. Who would listen to me?

I would have to learn a lot more in order to even have any sort of credibility. Which would take years.

#im just reading a book about russia #not that i didn't learn before #but detail #i read 2 books about ukraine #and...watch stuff on the internet #thats expert #i was like researching Iran for 2 years #just for 1 article #never got past research stage... #political science major #but ive squandered 13 yeara after graduation! #unable to do anything consistent #this. #this will be the change #but. #how #me up to any sort of task? #lol #listen to a pet sitter #ha #who lives w their parents #deal w own issues #oh i can travel rhe woeld and solve all problems #ahahaaqksjajajajqiaoa #can't even sleep #cant function when cant sleep #so...... #loser

[quotesfrommyreading]

Rhetorically shredding the Kremlin’s ludicrous claims required him to lean on his old reporting skills, to muster facts. But he admitted that the task didn’t demand much of his intellectual capital—Russian propaganda tends to beggar belief. His job wasn’t so much to persuade as it was to remind the world how much the Russians hated Ukrainians. He wanted to relentlessly highlight the extravagant desperation of Russian lies. His counterpropaganda was its own form of propaganda.

  —  Ukraine’s War Through Sergii Leshchenko’s Eyes

#franklin foer #ukraine’s war through sergii leshchenko’s eyes #current events #politics #russian politics #ukrainian politics #journalism #propaganda #warfare #russo-ukrainian war #2022 russian invasion of ukraine #ukraine #russia #serhiy leshchenko

[radio-charlie]

People form entire worldviews and rewrite their own memories based on things they read on social media. We have ourselves done the same, having spent our most formative years on here. So yeah of course posting does make a big difference. It just can't be the only thing your movement does

#look if i'd only spent my energy on socmed counterpropaganda and outreach i wouldn't have achieved diddly squat ya feel me

[mikejryan]

...A totalitarian movement. Its disregard for facts, its strict adherence to the rule of a fictitious world, becomes steadily more difficult to maintain, yet remains as essential as it was before. Power means a direct confrontation with reality, and totalitarianism in power is constantly concerned with overcoming this challenge. Propaganda and organization no longer suffice to assert that the impossible is possible, that the incredible is true, that an insane consistency rules the world; the chief psychological support of totalitarian fiction -- the active resentment of the status quo, which the masses refuse to accept as the only possible world -- is no longer there; every bit of factual information that leaks through the iron curtain, set up against the ever-threatening flood of reality from the other, nontotalitarian side, is a greater menace to totalitarian domination than counterpropaganda has been to totalitarian movements.

Hannah Arendt, 1966... And again, as someone who lived through it, who studied it, probed its depths, witnessed its horrors and manipulations, we should stand up and take note of what is going on in the US and several other countries, as they turn more and more towards totalitarian leaders and more and more away from reality and facts.

#totalitarianism #hannah arendt #politics #mass appeal

[mariacallous]

For months now, Russian students and teachers who oppose the war in Ukraine have had to deal with an education system that increasingly prioritizes the proliferation of pro-Kremlin narratives over traditional subjects like math and science. In addition to requiring teachers to give weekly lessons called “Conversations About What’s Important” (where students are taught about topics like “love for the Fatherland”), administrators have begun cracking down on even the smallest expressions of anti-war sentiment. The independent Russian outlet iStories recently spoke to several parents and teachers about what strategies they’ve been using to keep their kids safe while not completely denying them intellectual autonomy. Meduza summarizes the article in English.

Earlier this month, like children every week in towns and cities across Russia, students at a Moscow secondary school were told to stand for the national anthem. Most obeyed, but two girls refused, and instead began playing the Ukrainian national anthem from a smartphone. A classmate filmed the incident, and the footage later reached the mass media.

The video soon appeared on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and media outlets such as RT. Before long, the students started receiving threats. By November 18, videos of the girls apologizing for their actions began appearing on pro-war social media pages, according to the student-run independent news outlet Doxa.

The girls’ story is far from unique; in fact, other Russian students have been reprimanded for doing much less, — and some have even faced legal consequences. In October, for example, a fifth grader in Moscow was arrested after she used a yellow-and-blue avatar in her school’s online group chat and failed to show up for the Kremlin-scripted “Conversations About What’s Important.” The girl and her mother later learned that the school’s own principal was the one who reported her to the police.

More recently, a teacher in Karelia forced a seventh grader to turn around, facing backward, for an entire class period because he wore a hoodie in the colors of the American flag. “Class had just started, [the teacher] came into the room, saw this sweatshirt, and — as the saying goes — it was like a red flag before a bull,” the boy’s father told journalists.

For students who oppose the war, as well as for their families, this is the new normal: any misbehavior, statement, or even fashion choice that could be construed as disloyalty to the Russian state can lead to penalties from administrators, who might also report them to the authorities.

According to Daniil Ken, the head of the independent Teachers’ Alliance union, when a student encounters hostility for expressing anti-war views at school, the best way for parents to respond is by going to the school and doing whatever it takes to smooth things over (even if that means taking responsibility for their child’s supposedly wrong actions). “[The student] is going to have to spend a lot more time with these adults, and it’s a good idea [for parents] to find out what they think and what they plan to do about whatever happened,” he told iStories. “Parents need either to find some common ground with the teacher or take the ‘blame’ themselves.”

At the same time, Ken advised Russian parents to “conduct counterpropaganda” at home, though he this doesn’t always require talking directly about politics, he explained. “You don’t have to persuade [your kids] of different views or instill in them a different attitude towards current events; you can simply explain to them that in ['Conversations About What’s Important'], their teacher was just reciting information from a guide, not [actually teaching].”

Valery, a father from Tatarstan, said he believes that parents should nevertheless defend their children in front of school administrators, if they get into trouble for opposing the war in the classroom, but he too cautions that students should try not to attract attention to themselves deliberately. “[You need to explain to your child] that the Investigative Committee and the Attorney General are gladly sending people to prison right now for discrediting the armed forces. And proclaiming your opinion isn’t wise,” he said.

Valery also said that he and his daughter’s mother haven’t taken any overt “counterpropaganda measures” with their daughter: “[She] just sees how we feel about the world and the social order in general. I know that my child is against the war, and I know that she’s tied green ribbons in a few places, but she hasn’t taken part in any larger or riskier protests. And I’m thankful for that,” he said.

For students who don’t support the war, a best-case scenario is to end up with a like-minded teacher. But teachers who prefer spending time on math or science rather than parroting pro-Kremlin talking points have their own fine line to walk; defying the Education Ministry’s “recommendations” can attract attention from both administrators and especially from “patriotic” parents.

Luckily, Daniil Ken told iStories, “if a teacher hasn’t expressed oppositional views publicly before, his lessons are most likely not being watched particularly closely. And even if his failure to adhere to the ['Conversations About What's Important' lesson plans] is discovered, it’s practically impossible to prosecute him for that under the law,” he said.

But flouting instructions doesn’t come without consequences. Tatyana Chervenko, a teacher in Moscow who decided math would be a better use of her students’ time than “Conversations About What’s Important,” filed a legal complaint against her employer after administrators officially reprimanded her. Though no parents had voiced any problems with her curriculum choices, the school’s vice principal eventually noticed that she’d ditched the pro-invasion materials, and he recorded one of her math lessons. An official warning followed. Chervenko later received a second reprimand for an interview she gave to the independent news outlet Dozhd. Today, she’s at risk of losing her job.

For most educators, however, teaching around the war isn’t the most urgent part of their work. Mikhail, a teacher from Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, says the majority of Russia’s teachers “don’t spend too much time in patriotic fervor”; they’re too busy trying to eke out a living amid rising consumer prices.

“If they half-ass teachers’ pay (or don’t pay us at all, like with ‘Conversations About What’s Important’) then the teachers are going to half-ass the work and will just go through the motions,” he said.

[eric-sadahire]

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you know I'm not real, and I expire in 2 hours. I'm actually a CIA backed psychological operation. Thank you for all the fun and the happy memories.

#myworkisdone #Imnotreal #itscool #insight #andnowyouknow #CIAbacked #psychologicaloperation #PrimaryInfluenceCapability #thanksforthefun #happymemories #counterpropaganda #influencecapability #painting #acrylic #artoftheday #artwork #dailyartwork #outsiderart #lowbrowart #artporn #kunst #flomm #flommist #handpaintedbeercoaster #beercoaster #beermat #bierdeckel #perspective