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[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not really hard.

There's straight up disinformation, doublespeak, dogwhistles, reliance on fallacy, appeals to authority fear and prejudice, ad hominems, cherry picking, demonization/dehumanization of opponents, etc.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques