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To: tejek who wrote (554343)	3/10/2010 7:24:42 PM
From: TopCat	Respond to of 1572298

"Bill, if you don't want me to treat you like the other wingers on this thread, then please don't act like them." I don't know Bill, but I would be surprised if he cares very much about what an idiot like you thinks of him.

To: tejek who wrote (554343)	3/12/2010 10:16:48 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572298

"That's not the claim he made." Excellent summary. I saw this in a different forum. Tell me if you can recognize anything here. Here are five basic rules of propaganda, courtesy of Norman Davies in his extraordinary book "Europe: A History": * The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'. * The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies. * The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends. * The rule of unanimity: presenting one's viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure, and by 'psychological contagion'. * The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.