postyX - Modern Day Propaganda

00:00:01.000 Hello again, and welcome back to my shit show. Today, I wanted to talk about propaganda and government use of propaganda and you know, fake news and all this kind of stuff and basically just summarize what we've been going through over the last, I want to say five years, but it's probably been going on a bit longer than that. 0.98

00:00:18.580 But especially for the last five years and how this tool is can be used for good and evil, and how the government likes to use this as a weapon against the right wing saying that this is how they're radicalizing people with misinformation, or disinformation, when they're actually using this on the people on mass with the help of the mainstream media.

00:00:39.740 So I actually talked about the story a while ago, it came out in 2021. But it just came on my feed on X again. In regards to how the military there was a story that broke that said the military leaders, this is in Canada, saw the pandemic, and I use that in quote marks, because as far as I'm concerned, it wasn't a pandemic, it was a scandemic. But anyways, as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians. Now this came from the Canadian Armed Forces. It was a plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command.

00:01:08.180 Basically admitting that they relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. People don't realize too, that they've been using this stuff for years, like to get people on board with war, to get people on board with pretty much anything the government wants to do. So they, the government, or sorry, the Canadian military leaders rather saw this as a unique opportunity to test out the propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public. I think a lot of people that have, I don't want to say it's an IQ thing, I just feel like

00:01:38.180 it's people who aren't easily led, and they don't believe everything they're told that have a little bit more critical thinking, which is really hard to find nowadays, because with all of this propaganda and media and all this kind of stuff, obviously, it's doing what they want it to do. And it's making people to the point where they don't really even think about things or think about things logically anyways, and it's basically just, well, this is what they said on the news.

00:02:01.240 The federal government, they never asked for so-called information operations campaign, nor did the cabinet authorize the initiative developed. I give this a grain of salt, because as far as I'm concerned, any leader of a country should know what their military is doing. At any given time, I guess it's possible they don't, but knowing the leader that we've had over the last 10 years, and the fact that he's a raging narcissist, and believes that he's never wrong, I can't imagine he didn't know.

00:02:28.840 Now, military commanders believe they didn't need to get a higher approval on this. So some of the reasons, some of the things they did, I'm not going to get into it too much, but they basically used, well, the reason they gave basically was that it was for shaping exploiting information.

00:02:46.840 They claimed the information operation scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians. So basically, using it to control people. It was shut down. Now, the funny thing is, is this article doesn't really say what they did. And I'm assuming that's because, you know, they don't want people to know. But it involved a lot of, you know, monitoring, collecting public information to enhance awareness is what they said.

00:03:11.720 One of the other things they did, actually, it was in Nova Scotia, they sent out a public bulletin, public warning, I guess, that there were wolves in a certain area. And they did this solely for the purpose of controlling the behavior of people in that area, there was never any threat of wolves. So it just goes to show you, right, they, it's been a long time and propaganda has been used for so long. And it's also, like I said, can be good for good and for evil.

00:03:38.900 So, of course, you know, government's never going to really use it for good. We all know that. The, you know, 24 seven news cycle and social media algorithms, they exacerbate this, they prioritize emotionally charged content, gets the clicks, right? So it reinforces biases over discussion, rather. Political campaigns, media, obviously, amplify divisive rhetoric to get engagement, talking about personal attacks, ad hominem attacks, all this kind of stuff they do, instead of actually focusing on the issues that many voters are really,

00:04:08.900 you know, in this for what they really want to vote for. And a lot of people, it's human nature to want to watch a train wreck. This is why we get entertainment from movies and stuff like that.

00:04:18.140 The interplay, though, between government and media propaganda, it's really, really potent. Governments leverage media to disseminate their narrative. Well, media outlets, they obviously rely on the advertising revenue, or sometimes it's, you know, they're relying on in the case of, well, CNN was getting advertising revenue as well. But they rely on being able to go to like the White House. So they rely on being able to attend these press briefings. So they try to, you know, frame the narrative in the good light of the government, so that they get

00:04:48.040 these special benefits, these special benefits, I guess you could say. Now, the synergy of this can erode public trust, citizens are having trouble now discerning the fact from fact from actually government driven content, makes it further complicated, and obviously exploits the media's reach to sow division to destabilize society.

00:05:07.860 So I wanted to go back and kind of get some different, more concrete ways of how the government has historically used propaganda to gaslight the public, manipulating perceptions to obscure the truth, maintain control. In the context of what I'm talking about, it involves presenting false or misleading narratives. So that convinces people to doubt their own understanding of reality. One of the things we've seen this in the book 1984, if you've read it, and I guess to a certain extent, the other one, I can never pronounce his name properly.

00:05:37.860 But by Huxley, but by Huxley, A Brave New World. They rewrite the narratives. Governments distort facts to reshape public memory. An example of this could be an authoritarian regime often revises historical accounts that we saw this in the movie 1984 in the book, rather 1984. They do it through state controlled education or media, you know, denying it something ever existed. As the saying goes, the history is written by the victor, right? So they will rewrite history to obviously,

00:06:07.840 not make them look bad. It glorifies their rule, not make them look bad. It glorifies their rule, and erases dissent by insisting certain events never happened or were misunderstood. They sow confusion and undermine trust and collective memory.

00:06:20.000 This is a big thing. This is a big thing because you can see it from both sides of the Holocaust argument, right? People that say it didn't happen, or it didn't happen. And there wasn't as many people that died as, you know, we are being told. That could also be seen as rewriting a narrative. However, it's also being seen that rewriting the narrative of that many people dying is also not true that it was not 6 million. So that's a perfect example of how rewriting narratives happens. And we'll never know the truth unless we were able to speak to somebody

00:06:50.000 witness that. And even then, how do you know that they're telling the truth, right? So it creates this crazy confusion in everybody's mind and makes it makes everybody insane. And I've been saying this, I think ever since COVID, it just ramped up the insanity.

00:07:02.320 Denying evidence. When faced with criticism, some governments flatly deny variable truths during economic crises. For example, officials may claim prosperity despite widespread poverty. We see this right now in Canada currently when they're telling us that the economy is getting better when we all have eyes and ears and money that we don't have anymore that we're using, as well as the job market or the job numbers.

00:07:29.040 They keep telling us that we need to bring in tons of immigrants because we have so many jobs that are left, you know, unfilled. And then we get recently we had something come out that told us that our unemployment rate is increasing. So which is it? Do we have lots of jobs that we need lots of foreigners for? Or do we not have any jobs? And we're bringing in these foreigners for another reason. They rewrite the evidence or rewrite the narrative so that you think it's because we don't have jobs. 0.98

00:07:55.040 Blaming the victim, this is a good one. So a lot of times they're going to blame in this context, anyways, the right wing or the extremists for being racist for making it unwelcome for not having enough babies. This is another thing that and this gets blamed on everybody not having enough children, not, you know, building enough homes, not being anti racist enough. All these things get put back on for the most part, the white Canadian, white American, whatever country can apply to in the Western Hemisphere. 0.55

00:08:26.020 They shift the blame onto the public or a marginalized group to deflect the accountability. We saw this during the truckers convoy. We saw this all during COVID, where the blame was put on the people. If it wasn't for the fact that you guys weren't wearing your masks or this many people didn't get vaccinated, this is why we're in this position.

00:08:42.140 The propaganda frames the citizens as ungrateful and misinformed for protesting, again, during COVID, implying their suffering stems from their own flaws rather than systemic issues. So when people would complain during COVID that they were, you know, they couldn't handle it anymore, their mental health was suffering, they weren't able to get outside and see their family and all that stuff. It was put back on them as like, well, do you want to see grandmother die? Do you want to see the old people die? You're killing people, etc, etc,

00:09:12.140 controlling the media.

00:09:17.140 If you're listening to this, you probably had your account banned at some point in time during COVID for sharing memes, like I did. Multiple accounts, I had my boss contacted, many different things that happened, all for sharing stupid memes that would normally have been funny to everybody. 0.92

00:09:31.680 They dominate information channels, X, Twitter was one of them, Facebook, Instagram, you name it, they dominate all of them. They amplify their version of reality so that the virus was deadly, that everybody was going to die from it, that you know, you had to stay six feet away, all this stuff they told us was spread through there. And if you dare to challenge that, you were cancelled, or you were banned, or in some cases, you were fired from your job.

00:09:57.780 State run media or co-opted outlets flood the public with consistent messaging. This is similar, if you look at some of the news channels we have here in Canada, it's very similar to, I guess, what they say happened during Nazi Germany or National Socialist Germany, where, you know, Hitler, and again, this is all just stories, I don't know whether this is true or not. But what you know, they would play propaganda constantly 24 seven over the radio. This is what they do now with the news channels, like they're on CNN in Canada, we have, you know, CP 24

00:10:27.780 24, which I call communist propaganda 24, playing 24 hours a day, we have some other ones, they're just constantly playing the same propaganda over and over again. And a lot of people, especially the boomers and to Gen X to another certain degree, older Gen X, watch this constantly, and they believe everything that's coming out of the mouth of these people, they can't fathom a world where the government or the media would lie to them, because they come from a world where that didn't happen.

00:10:52.320 They will also create false threats, propaganda inflates or fabricates the external dangers to unify the public under government protection. This goes back to the whole thing is the government creates the problem, creates it unbearable, and then offers the solution that will take away some of your freedoms, but you're so desperate to get back to what you had before, you don't care at that point. And this all started after 9-11.

00:11:17.380 They foster fear, they say, you know, foreign enemies or internal traitors, governments justify surveillance, censorship or crackdowns. We've seen all this happen, right? Framing critics as threats to national survival.

00:11:30.680 It's crazy when you read this again, because it's literally what happened, but you don't see it until you actually read it on paper.

00:11:41.100 Some of the historical cases like Soviet era disinformation campaigns or wartime propaganda denying atrocities show this clearly. They're going to say deny atrocities, but there's also some atrocities that don't get mentioned, like the Haldemar doesn't get mentioned very often.

00:11:55.020 Modern examples include governments dismissing public health data during pandemics. Now, this was the opposite, okay? Public health was an arm of the government of the state. So they basically just shared, I believe, they shared mostly propaganda.

00:12:09.800 You had some experts, doctors who came out of the woodwork and were lost their licenses. They were publicly, you know, shamed and stuff like that because they were actually educated.

00:12:19.780 You know, a lot of people that work in public health do not actually have never treated an actual patient. They may have their doctorate in public health or whatever, but they've never actually treated a patient.

00:12:29.620 So that goes to tell you where. So we had doctors who treated patients and had many, many years experience in infectious diseases that went against the public health info.

00:12:40.920 So who's right in this scenario?

00:12:42.620 And going further to the public health misinformation thing, it says during health crises, there was a study that said governments may downplay the risk or exaggerate vaccine efficacy, which they did, right?

00:12:55.760 Initially, when they started rolling out this vaccine, it was, it will prevent you from getting it.

00:13:02.080 And then when that turned out not to be true, it was, well, it'll prevent you from getting a serious case of it.

00:13:05.980 And then after that turned out not to necessarily be true, that if you didn't get vaccinated, you might not get a serious case anyway.

00:13:13.240 It turned into, well, you won't die if you get it.

00:13:16.700 Now we're finding out that some of us are dying because we got it.

00:13:23.240 I'm going to segue here into another story that came out recently.

00:13:27.640 It shouldn't surprise anybody that is in the know in Canada, but leaked intelligence, Michael Chan linked to organized foreign influence strategy by the Chinese government,

00:13:35.460 CSIS documents confirm.

00:13:37.280 So these things kind of go hand in hand, right?

00:13:39.280 We have so much foreign interference in Canada, and it's not how you think it is.

00:13:43.560 Like, it's not like they're hacking the systems, they're hacking the voting base or whatever.

00:13:48.080 It's, it's actually, we're, we're facilitating it ourselves.

00:13:50.980 We have traders in government, many in government that are working, and it's known they're working with foreign agents and foreign influence, and we never do anything about it.

00:14:00.700 So this is all kind of tied into the whole gaslighting and propaganda, right?

00:14:05.140 Now, this case, this is a liberal, says a top CSIS agent, you're going to see it, I'm going to pop it on the screen here.

00:14:12.220 A top CSIS agent timeline shows that Michael Chan met, rather, repeatedly with Chinese consular officials to discuss candidate selection and political strategies.

00:14:21.860 He was involved in efforts to remove liberal MP Jentan and promote Han Dong, who was preferred by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:14:28.780 This is why a lot, and this isn't part of the post, but this is why I will say, always say, nobody that is not a white Canadian of European descent should be serving in Parliament.

00:14:44.660 I, I, I, and maybe that's a little unrealistic, but I think if you have not, you don't have roots prior to, say, 1980 in this country, you don't serve in Parliament, because you have no, what is your incentive to put Canada first when you are, have ties to another country?

00:15:00.720 Dual citizenship is another example of this. 0.99

00:15:02.560 You should not have dual citizenship. 1.00

00:15:03.760 This Michael Chan is flagged as a central contact point in a coordinated campaign to mobilize Chinese diaspora communities in ridings targeted by the People's Republic of China, the PRC.

00:15:17.280 His actions were monitored over more than 10 years involving closed-door meetings, campaign strategy, and consular support.

00:15:25.340 Despite this, Michael Chan is still affiliated with the Liberal Party and currently serves as deputy mayor of Markham.

00:15:30.600 The, also, the other funny thing about this is, and not that I agree that these two people should have been able to run for the Liberal Party because they're Indians, but the Liberal Party kicked out two women who were Indians for less than this, right?

00:15:46.560 So, it goes to show you that their priorities are not necessarily the multicultural dystopia that they are telling us that it is, that they want.

00:15:56.820 They are always going to put their interests first, and China is a big influence.

00:16:02.080 And this, I believe, is also part of the reason why, although now that Trump's come out with the, we've gotten more information about the tariffs and he keeps flipping back and forth between the tariffs.

00:16:12.420 I'm not sure if this is the total reason why he's putting on the tariffs on Canada.

00:16:17.800 But I do believe that it probably has something to do with national security.

00:16:23.140 How can you work with a country who you have a, basically, like, the longest land border with, it's, lots of it are unsecured of that border, right?

00:16:33.420 And you're a country that is allowing, knowingly allowing terrorists to live and infiltrate your government.

00:16:40.040 That's a huge risk to the U.S. from a security or military standpoint, national security standpoint.

00:16:46.120 So, not that it was necessarily the whole reason, because he did go back on it after, supposedly, Canada started securing the border.

00:16:53.140 But it would go to show you why this may be a concern for anybody leading the U.S., like, the president of the U.S.

00:16:59.780 Like, where our country is, it's a failed state.

00:17:02.520 It's an economic zone, a multicultural shithole economic zone that really couldn't defend itself if it wanted to. 1.00

00:17:10.040 We are allowing people, we are willingly putting them in positions where they can, you know, be traitorous, where they can be treasonous to the Canadian government. 0.96

00:17:18.760 Our own politicians, even the white Canadian ones, are treasonous, rather, to our own government.

00:17:24.560 So, how do you get out of something like this? 0.91

00:17:26.520 And this is the thing.

00:17:27.300 So, going back to my original point about propaganda and stuff like that, this is all stuff that they've been doing for us.

00:17:33.780 COVID was just a snapshot that we were able to kind of, there was so much happening during that time that we kind of, it was exposed to us.

00:17:42.040 I think they maybe went too hard, too fast, and people, you know, woke up.

00:17:46.060 Some of the even people who may not have woken up prior to that.

00:17:50.320 But it's, the damage is done now.

00:17:52.000 So, like, our country, I don't know how we're going to get this back unless we fight back with equally effective propaganda of our own.

00:18:00.080 And it is starting to work in the younger, you know, with the younger demographics because they are on social media.

00:18:05.340 And that's where a large amount of the right-wing propaganda, I don't even want to call it propaganda, it's just information, right?

00:18:11.400 But it's coming from, so you still have those boomers. 0.88

00:18:14.620 But it's so bad here in Canada that, like, they were able to do the COVID thing.

00:18:20.460 What makes anybody think that we're going to get out of this issue that we're in now?

00:18:24.420 The fact that the U.S. wants to take us over, the fact that, you know, the economy has basically failed. 0.99

00:18:29.320 We've been invaded by, you know, third world scum. 1.00

00:18:32.540 They're in our politics, our parliament and stuff like that. 0.99

00:18:35.740 And this all started with the propaganda campaign of multiculturalism, right?

00:18:41.160 Which started, I guess, back in the 70s with the elder Trudeau.

00:18:46.100 I don't know, what do you think?

00:18:47.200 What are your thoughts?

00:18:47.740 I think that we probably, propaganda is an effective tool.

00:18:51.400 And this video was just a mishmash of me just verbalizing what's going through my head right now. 0.94

00:18:56.200 It's been a while and I'm just like rambling and shit like that.

00:18:59.440 But it's been bothering me lately because COVID will always stick with me forever.

00:19:03.180 And it's mostly because of that propaganda, how they made me, and I'm sure many people like me, 0.95

00:19:08.720 feel like I was absolutely fucking insane.

00:19:10.460 So heads on a swivel, guys. 0.97

00:19:12.780 We've got to watch.

00:19:13.420 We've got to spread our own propaganda, get it out there, get people back in the right lane,

00:19:17.620 and hopefully do something, whether it's create our own utopia or maybe save this one.

00:19:22.640 Let's go ahead and share some of these distributions.

00:19:26.740 Let's do it.

00:19:27.600 Let's go ahead.

00:19:28.100 Let's do it.

postyX - April 14, 2025

Modern Day Propaganda

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