Excellent. Curiosity is key to understanding more. Thanks for what you are doing to educate and inform people, and help them understand what progressivism is about.
Beyond how to spot - thank you for pointing out actionable strategies and reminding that these are skills to be cultivated by the habits we develop. Well done Aly. I like the longer format.
Do you think he wants to rule the world? Like in a comic book villain way? I get the sense he’s emotionally immature enough, has too much time on his hands, lacks a fulfillment in his life, and has enough resources to attempt it because he doesn’t have anything better to do.
Most important is the most challenging, when a message bolsters support for something you already believe, ask "why do they think I need to feel more strongly about this?" and really honestly try to debunk your own position. A good magician doesn't need to convince you of what they want you to believe, a good magician limits the options and tricks you into truly believing what you already think. Be careful here also to remember, just because you can disprove your own beliefs and change your view, it doesn't necessarily mean that the opposing views are correct. There might be equal amounts of truth and validity as there are lies and nonsense in all of the current arguments. The positions, especially in political arenas, are framed within certain parameters. Sometimes those parameters make all of the positions insufficient.
Very pleased with your video. Media !iteracy begins at home, Gemany may be the exception. Don't expect media literacy to be taught in schools. Some student may be exposed to introduction to media studies. Some of us have understood what is wrong with free to air television and subscription television. Too many channels and nothing really interesting to watch. Mainstream media is interested in ratings . Encourage media literacy.
I grew up without internet (90s kid) and developed the Ambassador Kosh-approach for myself while figuring out the internet: "Who are you? What do you want?" Similar to the "follow the money"-game i guess. I didn't know Klett made actual textbooks about media literacy, we could have used those back at the turn of the millenium! Now i feel really old...
This is a book specifically used in English courses to look at American 🇺🇸 rhetorical strategies and media, but a lot of the questions asked in the book of students also speak to media literacy and propaganda analysis. It’s a good one for the basics 💚
Well Said..... I have done very specialized work for decades, and this is always the approached all work product and analysis was completed .... And all team members were trained in this approach as well
@@usa.mom.in.germany Yeah, for a first attempt, not bad. I think that you'll eventually be able to communicate your thoughts across better through this format of video, so you should keep going! Maybe you could upload the interview you had with a Geeman politician in full length? It's just an idea I had in mind.
The thing is with YT, the shorts get more attention. It's probably because of people's attention spans nowadays! I usually don't like the shorts at all, but Aly has won me over. It's similar with music, you used to listen to music on the radio, sometimes you liked it, sometimes you didn't. But it often opened up new horizons for you. Today people listen to a song on Spotyfy for 10 seconds that is suggested to them by the algorithm and then decide, sad. It's like judging a book by its cover. 😢 Pink Floyd or Dire Straits would no longer have a chance today. Internet and social media: Pandora's box is open! Now we have to learn how to deal with it, which is why schools should definitely establish how to deal with it as a subject. The Good, the bad and the ugly.
Can you honestly imagine any of this being ALLOWED in American classrooms? There would be a SCOTUS injunction because it was 'restricting the rights of corporations' within a month. That's if you could get the kids to engage with it at all.
As a counterintelligence agent in the Army and a person with a masters in Intelligence studies where I had to take courses in deception, misinformation and propraganda, I especially find your videos on this topic very intriguing. Because my field heavily deals with deception and propraganda and I sometimes sit back and think holy crap we use so much propraganda on our own, and is it really meant to protect or subjugate?
What is "chocolate"? Hersh**s with 7% cocoa + lots of sugar + whatnot? Or Chocolate with 70% cocoa +little sugar +nothing weird? And how much of either per week is good or bad for your health?
Critical thinking and the scientific method definitely combat manipulative messaging, but emotionally charged stories that speak directly to our sense of identity and meaning will almost always win the day when it comes to decision making. In the last 150 years, especially here in the states, we have become uprooted and dissociated from the deeper cultural identities that have been at the center of human society since we were cave dwellers. In the absence of deep story, we thirst for its return, and, in my opinion, is the basis of modern capitalistic society. Being cut adrift from a sense of belonging in the world and cosmos of our lives is ESSENTIAL for the wheels of industry to continue to grow.
Thank you for your insights and strategies for educational purposes as well as the own life and for the people surrounding each one of us (who also might got trapped)! In my childhood Sesame Street was an all-day companion and its German tbeme went like this: "Wer, wie, was, wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm!" This message stayed important...
Exactly. It is those very stories that captivate we need to examine. It’s fine and enjoyable to be captivated, but knowing it’s happening gives us enough distance to see more clearly.
Seems obvious to me. but so many people just sail thru life unexamined. I'm too much of a critical thinker! They say people who are 100% sure of themselves are not that bright. People like me can never be certain as there is always something that could go wrong~!
Something I like to point out: The scientific method is about trying to prove YOURSELF wrong. Also, a lot of this can apply to entertainment. A good story will be misleading at times, emotionally manipulative, ect. Recognizing those can made it even more enjoyable (IMO at least), as well as provide sort of training for seeing similar stuff in the wider world
Exactly this. Within the parameters of a hypothesis a scientist frames an experimental setup to disprove the theory that leads to the hypothesis. The setup attempts to eliminate any known factors that lead to the outcome until only one conclusion remains that supports the hypothesis. You can only gain new information if you ask questions that give you negative information about the hypothesis. Simplest example: I have a very, very simple mathematical rule in mind. You get to ask me if a set of numbers fits the rule in my mind. You get simple yes or no answers to your questions. From that you have to formulate for hypothesis. Hypothetical scenario: Question 1, 2, 3. Yes, it fits. Question 4, 6, 8 Yes, it fits. Question 4, 8, 7 No, it doesn't fit. -1, -2, -3 No, it doesn't fit. The solution is to find multiple data sets that , ie number sequences. Until you get a no for an answer you are only confirming your own bias. With a no answer you get new information to work with. In this case the very, very simple mathematical rule is: increasing numbers, from lower to higher, no matter if negative or positive, large or small. They just have to be in ascending order. But unless you formulated a question that gets you a false answer no new information can be found. That's the very basic scientific method, obviously extremely oversimplified.
There was a very similar experiment performed by a German medical doctor and a German dietitian. They wanted to see, if they could get a peer review from the scientific publication "Science" in the USA if they submitted a study. They set up a very simple, yet rigorously designed study on dark chocolate and weight loss. They knew exactly from the get go what their outcome was supposed to be , ie show that the consumption of dark chocolate can lead to weight loss. They formulated their hypothesis in such a way, that with a little statistical manipulation (mind you, not falsification, just normalizing, averaging, etc) what the outcome would be. They then submitted their findings to the publication "Science". It was publicized, so far so good. Then the breakfast TV circuit picked up on it, and it went viral in the USA. At that point the article in "Science", still under peer review, was taken as literal proof. From the US publication it flooded back into Germany and was picked up by the tabloids. From there the US article was quoted in German scientific circles as peer reviewed, even though it wasn't. Until three months later the original two guys revealed that it all was an elaborate hoax concocted by them to see if they could get a supposedly peer reviewed article accepted. That blew up in the face of the publication "Science". Unfortunately I don't have the link to the interview with the German doctor anymore where he reveals their scheme. I might find it if I look for it again.
Quick guide to "scientists say ...": This only works for simple empirical siences like psychology or medicine. Won't help you to understand a physics paper. Can you find the paper from the article? Ideally there should be a direct link, at most it should need googling name and university of author + topic. if no => trash Okay, so you have found the paper, let's read the abstract: 1) small sample size (everything under 100 almost definitively belongs here) => trash 2) no control group => trash 3) no good measure (like SMD or Cohen's D in the "choclate makes smart" or "xyz cures depression" cases) => trash It's probably trash by now. In case it isn't, you'll actually have to do some reading.
That's a great guideline to which i would like to add 0) look up the journal the paper was published in. If it's a predatory journal (Beall's list is a good source for checking) => trash
Great question! When someone says they’re ‘100% sure,’ I think there’s an opportunity to spark curiosity without challenging them directly. You could respond with something like: ‘That’s interesting! I wonder how you came to that conclusion.‘ This approach invites them to share their reasoning while modeling curiosity. Or, suggesting ‘I wonder if there’s another angle we haven’t considered yet?” Of course, these strategies are only useful to engage people who have at least some interest in discussing in that moment.
@@CharlesDeBoer-j1h No, not all of the media is propaganda. Teaching people to distrust the media is a key element of establishing an autocratic government. They tell you "don't believe what those people write about me/us, you can only believe me/us when we talk to you." all the while taking more control for themselves, making citizens unwilling, then unable, to question them, and eventually giving them the ability to suppress the news. Please keep that in mind as you watch or read the news.
I've had so many of these conversations in the last ten years. I really feel that my energy has been wasted, after this last election. I'm now focusing on my own exit strategy.
I took a course in college in media and framing and it was all the same information. This isn’t specific to US propaganda this is just critical thinking.
Yes, critical thinking is key! But understanding how these messages works in various contexts…like every day situations in the US …makes it easier to spot. This was the purpose of this video. I will be making more in depth videos, assuming time allows 💚
Do you have any concerns about Germany slowly sliding back into the fascist right again? I've seen content that mentions this and i thought if anyone would know, you would. I know this doesn't pertain directly to this video, but i wasn't sure of any other ways of asking the question. By the way, love your content. I think hope is lost for the U.S. though.
You are talking about propaganda? German politicians have convinced their populace that Russia could invade Europe and massively boosted military spending. Russia struggles to even take over villages near the Ukrainian border against an amateur army. Yet Europeans have been made to believe that they would take over all of Europe. Not only did they sanction themselves with oil and gas (and subsequently let their economy go down the drain), but they also agreed to boost military spending, which is money that will be taken away from other sectors of society.
The German politicians have not “convinced” the population of anything. Anyone with half a brain can work out that if we let a dictator get away with invading his neighboring countries, it encourages him and every other dictator to do the same in the future. In fact, we let Putin get away with annexing Crimea (and even before that, Abkhazia and South Ossetia!) and his appetite has only grown. So YOU are the victim of Russian propaganda, not us, who know full well that Putin must be stopped here and now.
They aren’t spending that money on other sectors. And yes, if “minor” countries are allowed to send support to Russia, they certainly can invade Europe and start WW3. It pays to pay attention to Putin’s language. He said 2 years ago if he can get entrenched in Ukraine, he’s going to invade Poland next. Remind you of anyone? Are you willing to take the risk that he’s just bluffing? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, why would you expect it to not act like a duck?
Here is an example.When Trump made Time magazine they compared it to others like Hitler to create a bad feeling but when Biden or Kamala did it was celebrated.That is how mainstream media is here..
This just in: EVERYBODY uses propaganda, even the creator of this video. One example is singling out the US which is merely clickbait to get you to listen to an otherwise normal list of methods to spot propaganda produced by anyone anywhere.
Is my title clickbait if it delivers what it promises: tools to identify propaganda in and from U.S. contexts including the kind we might not notice in our own backyard? I’m curious what you expected when you clicked on the title if not this?
@@usa.mom.in.germany I am also a teacher, now retired, and taught students how to identify propaganda in advertising and politics. The methods are well known and I don't need to rehash them. It's clear you know what they are. I just found it disingenuous that you felt it necessary to spotlight U.S. propaganda, as if it's any different from other forms of it elsewhere.
@@bigredracingdog466No, you aren’t. Propaganda isn’t true. It manipulates facts to get people to act against their own best interests. And you have no idea what clickbait means, either. The title for this video is not clickbait, nor is keeping a video short to illustrate one example “singling out.” This English teacher (me, with multiple education degrees, int’l published in higher ed twice, and raised by my WW2 high security clearance grandparents) strongly suggests you take a remedial reading comprehension course. The sooner the better, IMPO.
My mom always taught me to ask "why?" and to never stop until you get a real answer. It's my favorite word.
I wish she were my mom. My mom only believed in thought-stopping clichés.
Excellent. Curiosity is key to understanding more. Thanks for what you are doing to educate and inform people, and help them understand what progressivism is about.
Beyond how to spot - thank you for pointing out actionable strategies and reminding that these are skills to be cultivated by the habits we develop. Well done Aly. I like the longer format.
1+for the longer format
I would also love for you to talk specifically about the book about american propaganda and what it says.
On it! 💚
Follow the money: Elan Musk is paying for campaigning for a political party in the UK. Do you wonder why?
Do you think he wants to rule the world? Like in a comic book villain way? I get the sense he’s emotionally immature enough, has too much time on his hands, lacks a fulfillment in his life, and has enough resources to attempt it because he doesn’t have anything better to do.
Donald Trump is a great example “They are eating our dogs they are eating cats, they are eating our pets.”
It breaks the “don’t eat my oxytocin object” rule. Oxytocin reduces stress. So it triggers stress
Most important is the most challenging, when a message bolsters support for something you already believe, ask "why do they think I need to feel more strongly about this?" and really honestly try to debunk your own position. A good magician doesn't need to convince you of what they want you to believe, a good magician limits the options and tricks you into truly believing what you already think.
Be careful here also to remember, just because you can disprove your own beliefs and change your view, it doesn't necessarily mean that the opposing views are correct. There might be equal amounts of truth and validity as there are lies and nonsense in all of the current arguments. The positions, especially in political arenas, are framed within certain parameters. Sometimes those parameters make all of the positions insufficient.
Very pleased with your video. Media !iteracy begins at home, Gemany may be the exception. Don't expect media literacy to be taught in schools. Some student may be exposed to introduction to media studies. Some of us have understood what is wrong with free to air television and subscription television. Too many channels and nothing really interesting to watch. Mainstream media is interested in ratings . Encourage media literacy.
This video is solid gold! Thanks for making it 😊
I grew up without internet (90s kid) and developed the Ambassador Kosh-approach for myself while figuring out the internet: "Who are you? What do you want?" Similar to the "follow the money"-game i guess. I didn't know Klett made actual textbooks about media literacy, we could have used those back at the turn of the millenium! Now i feel really old...
This is a book specifically used in English courses to look at American 🇺🇸 rhetorical strategies and media, but a lot of the questions asked in the book of students also speak to media literacy and propaganda analysis. It’s a good one for the basics 💚
Nice B5 reference!
I thought the Kosh approach was to lurk around being mysterious all day.
Hope the video goes viral! Keep my fingers crossed for it, Aly!🤞
I seem to be doing a lot of things right, actually all of them.
👍🥰
Well Said..... I have done very specialized work for decades, and this is always the approached all work product and analysis was completed .... And all team members were trained in this approach as well
You should totally make more long-form videos in your freetime!
Yeah? You like it ok? I’m not going to lie, I was all nerves posting this today 😆
@@usa.mom.in.germany Yeah, for a first attempt, not bad.
I think that you'll eventually be able to communicate your thoughts across better through this format of video, so you should keep going!
Maybe you could upload the interview you had with a Geeman politician in full length? It's just an idea I had in mind.
It’s already up 🙂 Please feel free to give feedback on what you’d like to see me improve. I’m super open to feedback!
The thing is with YT, the shorts get more attention. It's probably because of people's attention spans nowadays!
I usually don't like the shorts at all, but Aly has won me over.
It's similar with music, you used to listen to music on the radio, sometimes you liked it, sometimes you didn't.
But it often opened up new horizons for you.
Today people listen to a song on Spotyfy for 10 seconds that is suggested to them by the algorithm and then decide, sad.
It's like judging a book by its cover. 😢 Pink Floyd or Dire Straits would no longer have a chance today.
Internet and social media: Pandora's box is open! Now we have to learn how to deal with it, which is why schools should definitely establish how to deal with it as a subject. The Good, the bad and the ugly.
Also, I would like a more advanced video like the one you mentioned at the end of this video, please.
Very well done.
Just remember that our news outlets have a strong corporate bias.
Gut gemacht!
Danke 🙂
@usa.mom.in.germany Gerne doch!
Old joke: "Scientists have found that smoking is not harmful to health after all!" Signed Dr. Marlboro 😜
Guten Abend, lieber Arno!
@@sisuguillam5109 Guten Abend liiiiiieeeebe Sisu 🤗
@arnodobler1096 Mittwoch. Also fast Wochenende! Und das heißt ganz bald ist Weihnachten! 😃
@@sisuguillam5109 Ich wünsch dir dafür alles was du dir wünschst!
Oh und Weltfrieden, aber da kommt mein Sarkasmus durch.
Yes, definitely more advanced videos please!
You got it!
Can you honestly imagine any of this being ALLOWED in American classrooms?
There would be a SCOTUS injunction because it was 'restricting the rights of corporations' within a month.
That's if you could get the kids to engage with it at all.
As a counterintelligence agent in the Army and a person with a masters in Intelligence studies where I had to take courses in deception, misinformation and propraganda, I especially find your videos on this topic very intriguing. Because my field heavily deals with deception and propraganda and I sometimes sit back and think holy crap we use so much propraganda on our own, and is it really meant to protect or subjugate?
What is "chocolate"? Hersh**s with 7% cocoa + lots of sugar + whatnot? Or Chocolate with 70% cocoa +little sugar +nothing weird? And how much of either per week is good or bad for your health?
Critical thinking and the scientific method definitely combat manipulative messaging, but emotionally charged stories that speak directly to our sense of identity and meaning will almost always win the day when it comes to decision making.
In the last 150 years, especially here in the states, we have become uprooted and dissociated from the deeper cultural identities that have been at the center of human society since we were cave dwellers. In the absence of deep story, we thirst for its return, and, in my opinion, is the basis of modern capitalistic society. Being cut adrift from a sense of belonging in the world and cosmos of our lives is ESSENTIAL for the wheels of industry to continue to grow.
Thank you for your insights and strategies for educational purposes as well as the own life and for the people surrounding each one of us (who also might got trapped)!
In my childhood Sesame Street was an all-day companion and its German tbeme went like this: "Wer, wie, was, wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm!"
This message stayed important...
Hello, What is the name of the book? Thanks!
Amazing ✨️ thank you
If a message speaks to you on a visceral level, approach it carefully
Exactly. It is those very stories that captivate we need to examine. It’s fine and enjoyable to be captivated, but knowing it’s happening gives us enough distance to see more clearly.
Seems obvious to me. but so many people just sail thru life unexamined. I'm too much of a critical thinker!
They say people who are 100% sure of themselves are not that bright. People like me can never be certain as there is always something that could go wrong~!
Something I like to point out:
The scientific method is about trying to prove YOURSELF wrong.
Also, a lot of this can apply to entertainment. A good story will be misleading at times, emotionally manipulative, ect. Recognizing those can made it even more enjoyable (IMO at least), as well as provide sort of training for seeing similar stuff in the wider world
Exactly this.
Within the parameters of a hypothesis a scientist frames an experimental setup to disprove the theory that leads to the hypothesis. The setup attempts to eliminate any known factors that lead to the outcome until only one conclusion remains that supports the hypothesis.
You can only gain new information if you ask questions that give you negative information about the hypothesis.
Simplest example: I have a very, very simple mathematical rule in mind.
You get to ask me if a set of numbers fits the rule in my mind. You get simple yes or no answers to your questions.
From that you have to formulate for hypothesis.
Hypothetical scenario:
Question 1, 2, 3.
Yes, it fits.
Question 4, 6, 8
Yes, it fits.
Question 4, 8, 7
No, it doesn't fit.
-1, -2, -3
No, it doesn't fit.
The solution is to find multiple data sets that , ie number sequences.
Until you get a no for an answer you are only confirming your own bias. With a no answer you get new information to work with.
In this case the very, very simple mathematical rule is: increasing numbers, from lower to higher, no matter if negative or positive, large or small. They just have to be in ascending order.
But unless you formulated a question that gets you a false answer no new information can be found.
That's the very basic scientific method, obviously extremely oversimplified.
That chocolate study - was it funded by Hershey? Or other choco / candy companies?
There was a very similar experiment performed by a German medical doctor and a German dietitian.
They wanted to see, if they could get a peer review from the scientific publication "Science" in the USA if they submitted a study.
They set up a very simple, yet rigorously designed study on dark chocolate and weight loss. They knew exactly from the get go what their outcome was supposed to be , ie show that the consumption of dark chocolate can lead to weight loss. They formulated their hypothesis in such a way, that with a little statistical manipulation (mind you, not falsification, just normalizing, averaging, etc) what the outcome would be.
They then submitted their findings to the publication "Science". It was publicized, so far so good.
Then the breakfast TV circuit picked up on it, and it went viral in the USA. At that point the article in "Science", still under peer review, was taken as literal proof.
From the US publication it flooded back into Germany and was picked up by the tabloids.
From there the US article was quoted in German scientific circles as peer reviewed, even though it wasn't.
Until three months later the original two guys revealed that it all was an elaborate hoax concocted by them to see if they could get a supposedly peer reviewed article accepted. That blew up in the face of the publication "Science". Unfortunately I don't have the link to the interview with the German doctor anymore where he reveals their scheme. I might find it if I look for it again.
Quick guide to "scientists say ...":
This only works for simple empirical siences like psychology or medicine. Won't help you to understand a physics paper.
Can you find the paper from the article? Ideally there should be a direct link, at most it should need googling name and university of author + topic. if no => trash
Okay, so you have found the paper, let's read the abstract:
1) small sample size (everything under 100 almost definitively belongs here) => trash
2) no control group => trash
3) no good measure (like SMD or Cohen's D in the "choclate makes smart" or "xyz cures depression" cases) => trash
It's probably trash by now. In case it isn't, you'll actually have to do some reading.
That's a great guideline to which i would like to add
0) look up the journal the paper was published in. If it's a predatory journal (Beall's list is a good source for checking) => trash
@@PaulinaMeyer-yf1cm good addition
Good advice, but i often hear back after saying "I'm not sure about that" "you're not sure. well, i am sure. 100% sure." can i still foster curiosity?
Great question! When someone says they’re ‘100% sure,’ I think there’s an opportunity to spark curiosity without challenging them directly. You could respond with something like: ‘That’s interesting! I wonder how you came to that conclusion.‘ This approach invites them to share their reasoning while modeling curiosity. Or, suggesting ‘I wonder if there’s another angle we haven’t considered yet?”
Of course, these strategies are only useful to engage people who have at least some interest in discussing in that moment.
You're approaching this as if Americans have any concept of logic or critical thinking skills. Over half do not, as demonstrated by the 2024 election.
Just watch FOX you can’t miss all the propaganda!
And CNN, OAN, Spectrum, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc.
@@CharlesDeBoer-j1h No, not all of the media is propaganda. Teaching people to distrust the media is a key element of establishing an autocratic government. They tell you "don't believe what those people write about me/us, you can only believe me/us when we talk to you." all the while taking more control for themselves, making citizens unwilling, then unable, to question them, and eventually giving them the ability to suppress the news. Please keep that in mind as you watch or read the news.
@@CharlesDeBoer-j1h the worst: Dayly Wire, Ben Shapiro & Co.
I've had so many of these conversations in the last ten years. I really feel that my energy has been wasted, after this last election. I'm now focusing on my own exit strategy.
I took a course in college in media and framing and it was all the same information. This isn’t specific to US propaganda this is just critical thinking.
Yes, critical thinking is key! But understanding how these messages works in various contexts…like every day situations in the US …makes it easier to spot. This was the purpose of this video. I will be making more in depth videos, assuming time allows 💚
"Fake News" and "Alternative Facts" US media and President thing, Unfortunately, this cancer has spread quickly, in Germany the AfD Party for example.
Who, what, where, when and why.
Do you have any concerns about Germany slowly sliding back into the fascist right again? I've seen content that mentions this and i thought if anyone would know, you would. I know this doesn't pertain directly to this video, but i wasn't sure of any other ways of asking the question. By the way, love your content. I think hope is lost for the U.S. though.
Now can we get this video into the information circles of Faux News watchers?
Great ideas. However, to say they focus on "US propaganda" is misleading. They apply to any sensible relationship with media.
Learn about Manufacturing consent
You are talking about propaganda? German politicians have convinced their populace that Russia could invade Europe and massively boosted military spending. Russia struggles to even take over villages near the Ukrainian border against an amateur army. Yet Europeans have been made to believe that they would take over all of Europe. Not only did they sanction themselves with oil and gas (and subsequently let their economy go down the drain), but they also agreed to boost military spending, which is money that will be taken away from other sectors of society.
The German politicians have not “convinced” the population of anything. Anyone with half a brain can work out that if we let a dictator get away with invading his neighboring countries, it encourages him and every other dictator to do the same in the future. In fact, we let Putin get away with annexing Crimea (and even before that, Abkhazia and South Ossetia!) and his appetite has only grown. So YOU are the victim of Russian propaganda, not us, who know full well that Putin must be stopped here and now.
@@hape3862 Yes, we have let Putin get away with too much, like Chamberlain and Co. did with AH with his appeasement policy. Happy holidays Hape!
They aren’t spending that money on other sectors. And yes, if “minor” countries are allowed to send support to Russia, they certainly can invade Europe and start WW3. It pays to pay attention to Putin’s language. He said 2 years ago if he can get entrenched in Ukraine, he’s going to invade Poland next. Remind you of anyone? Are you willing to take the risk that he’s just bluffing? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, why would you expect it to not act like a duck?
@@arnodobler1096 Dir auch schöne Feiertage, Arno!🎄
Saying that Hitler and Putin are meaningfully equivalent or have a similar agenda is at best quite the reach Surely it is not „propaganda“ at all…
Here is an example.When Trump made Time magazine they compared it to others like Hitler to create a bad feeling but when Biden or Kamala did it was celebrated.That is how mainstream media is here..
This just in: EVERYBODY uses propaganda, even the creator of this video. One example is singling out the US which is merely clickbait to get you to listen to an otherwise normal list of methods to spot propaganda produced by anyone anywhere.
Is my title clickbait if it delivers what it promises: tools to identify propaganda in and from U.S. contexts including the kind we might not notice in our own backyard? I’m curious what you expected when you clicked on the title if not this?
How are you defining propaganda here?
@@_hunnybe The dictionary definition.
@@usa.mom.in.germany I am also a teacher, now retired, and taught students how to identify propaganda in advertising and politics. The methods are well known and I don't need to rehash them. It's clear you know what they are. I just found it disingenuous that you felt it necessary to spotlight U.S. propaganda, as if it's any different from other forms of it elsewhere.
@@bigredracingdog466No, you aren’t. Propaganda isn’t true. It manipulates facts to get people to act against their own best interests. And you have no idea what clickbait means, either. The title for this video is not clickbait, nor is keeping a video short to illustrate one example “singling out.” This English teacher (me, with multiple education degrees, int’l published in higher ed twice, and raised by my WW2 high security clearance grandparents) strongly suggests you take a remedial reading comprehension course. The sooner the better, IMPO.