Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Propaganda in TV drama report:
British TV has a show "The Diplomat" about US ambassador to UK who is tapped for VP by a Biden clone who's chief of staff is a Michael Obama clone.
Its about Russia doing a false flag attack on a UK ship. (good to highlight the idea of flase flags)
Notable quote from the Ambassador "NO the CIA didn't kill Kennedy, NO "Q" is not the internet messiah, and [something to do with the story that is supposedly also not true]" I nearly choked at this.
Throughout the show the "Iran deal" is cast as some vital and noble endeavour that nefarious and low-motive people question
The insidious embedded propaganda throughout is the idea that bumbling humans accidentally cause events without any planning just because of their petty desires to be popular etc.