Ep. 0233: CJ’s Top 10 War Propaganda Techniques

Join CJ as he first gives an update on a few recent personal difficulties, and then goes over the following war propaganda techniques:

• Demonize the enemy’s leader.
• Dehumanize the enemy’s people.
• Turn the conflict into a super-simplistic morality play.
• Fabricate heroic stories about your side.
• Fabricate and/or exaggerate enemy atrocity stories.
• Exaggerate the enemy’s intentions and/or capabilities.
• Lie by omission/Cherry-pick.
• Crop the story/truncate the antecedents.
• Give your people empty symbolic gestures to signal their virtue.
• Smear/demonize any of your people who question or criticize The Narrative.

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External Links

• Scott Horton’s recent 2-hour presentation on the Ukraine war
• Darryl Cooper’s recent Martyrmade episode on the Ukraine war
• Scott Horton’s recent appearance on the Jocko Unraveling podcast