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Curious Healthcare Professional with a passion for dispelling intentional disinformation especially within the medicine and science spheres. Networking with Pro-Science & Evidenced Based Medicine. Amateur Photographer #WeCare, #Photography

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · Aug 16

1/ After years of watching the spread of disinformation on the other platform, here’s what I’ve learned…
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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 7h

Thank for your kind words. I use a variety of tools to create the visuals.

I post on X and here on BlueSky.

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for sharing this thread. If you check out the next thread, you see what you suspect.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

13/ 📚 References

SPLC (Miller profile, 2020)

Brookings (Communication in Populism, 2021)

The Guardian (2020)

Washington Post (2018–2023 coverage)

Benkler, Faris & Roberts — Network Propaganda (Oxford, 2018)

Moffitt — The Global Rise of Populism (Stanford, 2016)

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

12/ 🪞 Reflection

Propaganda adapts to freedom — it doesn’t disappear within it.

The tools are democratic.

The tactics are not.

Recognizing the pattern is the first act of resistance.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

11/ 📡 The Continuity

The comparison isn’t moral; it’s mechanical.

Both systems fused emotion with repetition to bypass reason.

Then and now, propaganda thrives when outrage outpaces verification.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

10/ 🏛️ The Pressure

Courts, elections, and a free press still act as circuit breakers.

But constant pressure bends institutions toward exhaustion — and exhaustion breeds apathy.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

9/ 📱 The Algorithms

Where Goebbels used radio, today’s propagandists use recommendation engines.

Algorithms reward outrage, not evidence.

The medium changed; the psychology did not.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

8/ ♟️ The Inversion

Victimhood inverted power.

The world’s most powerful man framed himself as persecuted by elites, bureaucrats, and journalists.

Every investigation became “proof” of the plot against him.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

7/ 🎪 The Spectacle

Rallies replaced briefings.

Soundbites replaced paragraphs.

Emotion replaced information.

In the spectacle economy, applause became the new metric of truth.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

6/ 🗞️ The Attack

“Fake News” wasn’t a rebuttal; it was a weapon.

It delegitimized the press by converting distrust into identity.

Believing the leader became proof of loyalty.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

5/ 🧱 The Slogan

“Build the Wall.”

Three words that fused fear with belonging.

A slogan so effective it became policy, performance, and password — all at once.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

4/ ⚙️ The Machinery

Fear.
Identity.
Repetition.

The same three levers that once drove 1930s propaganda now fuel modern populism — stripped of ideology, refined into technique.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

3/ 🎤 The Performer

Donald Trump turned those words into theatre.

Press briefings became campaign rallies; governing became broadcasting.

Spectacle replaced structure — and emotion became the instrument.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

2/ 🧠 The Architect

Stephen Miller became the architect of message discipline — where policy met performance.

He wrote words built for repetition: short, sharp, emotionally loaded.

Every phrase tested for impact, not accuracy.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

1/ Propaganda didn’t die in 1945.
It evolved with Wi-Fi.

The mechanics that once synchronized a nation now flow through feeds and hashtags.

Different century, same circuitry of persuasion.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

13/ References

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

12/ Reflection
Goebbels proved propaganda can manufacture morality.

Understanding his matrix is not about the past—it’s about inoculation.

Step One:
The first defense against propaganda is noticing it.

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

11/ Coordination of Consciousness
Historians call this the “coordination of consciousness.”

Once information flows only one way, democracy becomes theatre and citizens become audience.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

10/ The Mechanics
Simplify. Repeat. Emotionalize. Divide.

These were not accidents; they were policies—codified, measured, refined.

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

9/ Consequences
By 1939, opposition press was extinct.
Persecution was portrayed as protection, conquest as defense.

A nation marched to ruin believing it was righteous.

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

8/ Feedback Loop
Propaganda raised Hitler’s popularity.
That popularity justified Goebbels’ control.

Each success proved the system “worked,” erasing any space for dissent.

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

7/ The Leader Myth
Hitler’s image was crafted as infallible and compassionate—father, savior, and soldier.

Goebbels built the cult; Hitler sustained it by rewarding loyalty over truth.

Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

6/ The Spectacle
Rallies, torches, synchronized salutes—politics staged as ritual.

Radio carried the same emotions into every home.

Audiences felt unity long before they thought about policy.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

5/ Emotion Over Reason
He taught that feelings move masses faster than facts.

Fear, pride, belonging—each message pressed those buttons.

Repetition made slogans feel self-evident.

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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 8h

4/ Message Control
Each morning editors received a “theme of the day.”

No publication could contradict it.

Goebbels’ office replaced curiosity with compliance—turning journalism into choreography.

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