Jon Delaney
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And this guy's throwing me all this information and I'm like,
wow, you live in a totally different reality.
And it made me, like after talking with him for so long, it made me start to question, am I being lied to?
Because the propaganda is so good.
So going back to his question, I would say,
What's your definition of propaganda?
What's your definition of propaganda?
Just things that are outright bullshit that they're pushing.
So for one example,
when the united states carried out some strikes in yemen i believe it was when trump came into office a couple months in there was accounts on x posting ai generated images of them shooting down an f-35 that was the size of straight up i mean they're generated images and they're they're pushing this out and they've got bots amping it up and
I think something like that is easily definable as propaganda because it's clearly not true and they're pushing it to create some sort of a narrative.
But it's hard because I absorb a lot of news.
journalism is you're painting a picture to somebody.
And depending on where you get that picture from, it might be a little heavier on the red paint or the blue paint, or it might not even have that color.
And so it's hard to really narrow down how much of it is bullshit and how much of it isn't because
Everybody has a different story.
Like right now, for example, I was just talking to Jeff about this.
We had an article the other day about Secretary Hegseth is talking about giving Ukraine new firepower, quote unquote firepower.
And the big talk right now is that we might be giving them tomahawks.
Don't know how much you've been following that, but