Propaganda posts with military or police now reliably reach the front page weekly.

77  2016-07-10 by Vitalogy0107

As we can see here, this is just a single example of the myriad of pro-police, pro-military posts that reach the front-page every single week. Their propaganda value is extremely deceptive, for it is not in their content, but solely based on their association with positive things. This may seem counter-intuitive but these posts seem to be extremely effective in invoking positive, deep-seated feelings that feel as if they were self-created.

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/4s391z/ninja_police_chief/

Oh look, another:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/4s5q38/this_dog_is_trained_to_revive_humans/

Edit #2: Jesus Christ, a third one within 4 hours hits the front page

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4s5hqx/the_cops_were_playing_pokemon_go_with_us_last/

21 comments

7  nonconformist3 2016-07-10

Right now people are trying to support the people who enslave them. Tis a silly place, this America. Full of idiots who only know enough to stay enslaved.

8  Vitalogy0107 2016-07-10

Oh look, a third one!

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4s5hqx/the_cops_were_playing_pokemon_go_with_us_last/

See?! Cops are just like you! They play games, and have families! They only kill people who are threats! You're not a threat! You play PokeMoN!

3  nonconformist3 2016-07-10

We have so much in common!

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3  salvia_d 2016-07-10

Why do people still go to the front page of Reddit? That's insane. Just visit the subs you like and slowly find yourself alternatives to Reddit because we all know what's coming.

2  Balthanos 2016-07-10

They always have.

7  Vitalogy0107 2016-07-10

True, but it feels like it is occurring more often, and the examples are more blatant. For example, the post I linked has literally no content. It is to show officers in a positive light, which is in stark contrast to what we are currently seeing in real life.

1  Balthanos 2016-07-10

My point is that this isn't anything new. There have always been forces pushing government propaganda to the front page. It's just more noticeable when it directly correlates to current events.

6  Vitalogy0107 2016-07-10

Oh, yeah, I'm totally aware. Just figured since this was such a glaring example that it was worth mentioning with a post that Reddit is completely gamed. I know it seems obvious, but there are many newcomers who may not already be aware of this.

1  nonconformist3 2016-07-10

It's been going on for a long time, we just didn't have cameras to film them until the last 15 years or so. Even when phones had them, they sucked and took forever to turn on. Plus, no cloud or streaming to use, so if a cop wanted to, they could just kill the phone and job done, no evidence. Your word against a cop's is just another way of saying you have no say.

You still see cops try that same tactic, destroy the phone, but they don't know technology and forget that killing the phone doesn't kill the video all the time. I'm sure their department has already instructed them on it and likely they have colluded to figure out the best way to make that problem go away too.

I heard one state just last year was trying to outlaw the filming of police. Here is the search on that, apparently it's more than one state. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=state+to+outlaw+filming+police&t=ffsb&ia=web

5  dogasnew 2016-07-10

It has become more pervasive. When you say "it's always been that way," you're persuading people to believe that no change is occurring, and this is not helpful.

2  dogasnew 2016-07-10

/r/UpliftingNews is the biggest purveyor of that shit.

9  Vitalogy0107 2016-07-10

Yeah, as if watching a soldier embrace his family for the first time in years is supposed to absolve the fact that he was just fighting in an agression based on complete fabrications and as a result over a million innocents have died. Strange, they always forget to include that part. Just the soldier hugging his family.

3  Vienna_Fingers 2016-07-10

I'm getting a kick out of this media generated complete bullshit race war. Soon we will see news about blacks and white reaching across racially fueled battle lines as if there is really a battle line to begin with.

1  joshua_ray 2016-07-10

The polarization of society will come to a head at the coning elections, and it wouldnt surprise me if the first presidential action were to declare martial law, or to continue it after Obama declares it. :/ Hail our robot overlords!

1  -INFOWARS- 2016-07-10

Noticed this myself.

Pretty sure that the elite have bots on Reddit.

1  machocamacho88 2016-07-10

*daily

1  joe462 2016-07-10

This may be propaganda, but then so are anti-cop stories. There seems to me to be an increasing hysteria over police violence, which, as far as I know, has not increased by any significant amount.

1  Vitalogy0107 2016-07-10

Where do you see anti-cop stories reaching the front page other than the in news subreddits? I don't see thinly guised anti-cop propaganda being artificially supported by reddit into reaching the front page. I do see false opposition in the black lives matter protesters though, which is nothing more race war agitators.

1  randyjohnsonsjohnson 2016-07-10

Where do you see anti-cop stories reaching the front page other than the in news subreddits?

r/videos

r/politics

r/gifs

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