🇺🇦 Myke :emacs: :clojure:
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433·2 years ago@yogthos 5. Use of emotionally charged language: The words like ‘hysteria’, ‘atrocities’, ‘rampages’ play with the emotions of the readers, leading them to take sides without looking into the facts.
Such manipulation could be intended to steer readers towards a particular point of view on these complex geopolitical issues.
@yogthos 3. Suppressed evidence or half-truths: The phrase “silence over the rampages,” suggests that there is no media coverage of issues in the occupied West Bank, which isn’t completely accurate. Many outlets do cover this topic, so the statement can be seen as manipulative.
- Misrepresentation: Calling the Russian actions in Ukraine “alleged” is a way of potentially downplaying the severity or validity of documented attacks or violations.
@yogthos 2. Loaded comparisons: By comparing two significantly different geopolitical situations, the writer is employing the technique of a false equivalence. The comparison is manipulative because it’s designed to imply an unfair bias in media coverage without fully demonstrating it.
@yogthos This text uses several manipulative techniques:
- Biased language: The phrases “media hysteria”, “alleged Russian atrocities”, “rampages by Israeli troops and settlers” all communicate the author’s perspective or bias right off the bat, rather than presenting facts objectively. The strong language manipulates the reader’s empathy and emotions.
@yogthos oh my god dude, you’re a gold mine!
0·2 years ago@yogthos thanks for the inspiration, I haven’t written for some time and your little “coup” trick was a great example.
@yogthos and then count me into violent nationalists. Although you’ll have a problem since I’m Jewish, just like our nazzi president 😂 who is a democratically elected next president, which is typical for military coups 😂
@yogthos you call this group of people SMALL? 😂
@yogthos well you can change a lot in 8 years, since the “last time you checked” 😂 and I KNOW Ukraine has democracy. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Now we have the most advanced digital government in the world, much lower corruption (although the level of corruption is not directly related to being a democracy). But thank for the inspiration. I’ll use your posts to write an article on polemic tricks.
@yogthos #democracy is within the blood of #Ukraine. We had democratically elected governments in 17th century. And we in fact have the oldest constitution in Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
@yogthos a coup is a sudden violent change of government, often by a small group of people. In both of our revolutions we had hundreds of thousands of people in peaceful protest on the streets. In 2004 all went peacefully. In 2013 the police started shooting and the president ran away to Russia. He’s still there by the way, asking us to give up to Putin. Great guy.
@yogthos this is literally how democracies work. If the government fucks up people go to the streets.
@yogthos we had a revolution in 2004 after the government tried to fake elections. It was called Maidan. Right after the revolution won we had open democratic elections with international oversight. That’s not a coup. Same happened in 2013, when another government tried to force us into Russia. We had hundreds of thousands of people on the streets fighting for freedom, and then democratic elections. That is NOT a coup.
@yogthos is this about Ukraine? Because we never had a coup.
@planet @clojure use unchecked-inc and unchecked-dec for more speed