The terms #advertising & #commercial are really just #euphemisms for #CapitalistPropaganda. You’ve literally been #programmed over the years to think you have rights without duties, and by extension, that the elite have rights without duties as well. But, you don’t really have the same “rights” as #billionaires. Do you? And #capitalism is founded on #social #contract. We give the elite the “right” to accumulate #fortunes that allow for #production at #scale. In return, they do their “duty” and ensure that #productivity is #invested in a manner that benefits the masses giving them the right to be rich. Otherwise: #guillotines. Right?
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What do I mean by #CapitalistPropaganda?

Well, for example #GroverNorquist is the #capitalist elite's version of Jospeh Goebbels.

He's a paid liar.

For example: want to control #inflation? #TaxTheRich a percentage of their price increases.

Want to control #CapitalistPropaganda? Tax the elite by the byte for the privilege of communicating across state lines.

Want to keep elite influence out of politics? Provide a general election fund that those owning above a set asset threshold must fund to participate.

This isn't rocket surgery. The #poor hate taxes because the #elite have weaponized the term against the poor.

Never be fooled.

#Taxes have never been about "paying for" public budgets in sovereign currency issuing countries. That's a recent #CapitalistPropaganda invention.

Taxes have always been asserting #public control. Taxes are the only effective stick the public owns to beat #billionaires into submission.

Always remember this.

Team 'murika ... fuck yeah!
#PanemEtCircenses
#CapitalistPropaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sx1YiCwd60

Taibbi states:
“The end result has been relentless censorship of, and mountains of (often deceptive) state-sponsored propaganda about, legitimate American political activity. In the Twitter Files we see correspondence from state agencies and state-sponsored research entities describing everything from support of the Free Palestine movement to opposition to vaccine passports as illicit foreign propaganda.”

Trouble is Matt, #StatePropaganda is #CapitalistPropaganda when the capitalist class owns the State.

https://www.racket.news/p/freelancers-wanted-help-knock-out

I have a bet with a friend that if he can find a current #commercial for something I "need" then I will promptly mail him a check for $100.00.

Why am I positive I'll win?

The mode is laid out in GK Galbraith's "Dependence Effect." The method is #CapitalistPropaganda

https://sites.middlebury.edu/econ0450f10/files/2010/08/galbraith.pdf

@breadandcircuses
My 5yr old was watching an educational video the other day, and I'll be damned if it wasn't the first time I'd heard mention of: #RefuseReduceReuseRecycle.

Stopped me in my tracks when I heard it. I immediately went over and reinforced how correct the message is.

Personally, I #Refuse to buy throw away planned obsolescence consumer kitsch. If you can't fix it when it breaks, or resuse it over and over, or it's so cheap it's not worth fixing ... refuse to buy it.

I think that's one of the most valuable lessons we can teach our children while they're young to break out of the consumer culture trap perpetually laid by #CapitalistPropaganda.

@iain @revolt3d Well, at least in the U.S., a ton of good journalists have defected from the MSM and gone private on sub stack. That's the first step. However, they're islands in an ocean of #CapitalistPropaganda. And while each may have their own ethical principles that make them good journalists, they lack power to push the MSM to the same standards. As a result, their ability to change the system is hamstrung.

Now, pull all those lone voices under one big tent that agrees to: (i) adopt rules w/r/t minimum levels of competency, ie. testing to determine if you smart enough to be a journalist in the first place. Law has the bar exam. Doctors have the Boards. (ii) Adopt an ethical code of rules, also with a test you have to pass to get under the tent. But, those rules also apply to all the work one does through their career. You fall below that ethical standard, and someone complains, you get called before board of disciple (a jury of your peers) for sanctioning or being dispelled. (iii) Adopt rules governing the board of discipline that proscribe the rules the board of discipline has to play by, and which sets out terms for the regular transfer of power.

That done, you've set up a system that the public can trust, and judge if the system is performing as advertised. If it does perform as expected, then the trust will pay off b/c that system is where people will turn to .. and away from the MSM system. This would have the effect of pushing everyone else to either adopt the standards, or be seen as untrustworthy.

Which leads to your main point, it has to be the "good" journalists who set the system up on their own, first. They have to set the standard of excellence. Once done, everyone else either joins, and is willing to accept the penalties, or they're penalized for working for to substandard levels.

The system has worked quite well for all the other "professions" for a very long time. As it stands, there's no teeth to current journalistic standards, and thus no reason not to be a hack.

Make sense?

@ricardoharvin The surest sign that #Capitalism has failed is that it doesn't provide the basic necessities so every human can afford them.

Which is why we observe so much #CapitalistPropaganda to distract from this fact.

There is nothing #revolutionary about #AI

It's the same old #CapitalistPropaganda wrapped in #bullshit with a shiny new bow on top.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/01/ai-bs.html

That 5 yr olds are riveted by commercials tells you everything you need to know about #CapitalistPropaganda

Just posted this over at Elon's new hobby house ... so refreshing to be free of all that here.

Hey guess what?
There's no promoted #CapitalistPropaganda (advertising is what low info morons call it) over at #Mastodon
Just you and yours.
Imagine that.

I'm grateful today that hard hitting websites like Naked Capitalism still exist in the world to cut through the fog of corporate media's #CapitalistPropaganda

Thanks @yvessmith and @LambertStrether for keeping it REAL.

If you're not acquainted with the website, you're in for a treat:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com

When we do #CapitalistPropaganda we call it Advertising. So cute how brainwashed we all are.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/call-of-duty-is-a-government-psyop-these-documents-prove-it/282781/

Words I shudder to see: Content, TV, Ad, etc.
These are all euphemisms for #CapitalistPropaganda.

Change the language and change a mind.

We so readily forget the only reason “content” exists is to sell us shit we don’t need by making us feel insecure in who we are.