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These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Thank You.

The Five Rules of Propaganda

1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.

4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were 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'.

5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.

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6. The rule of projection and misdirection - accuse your adversaries of doing exactly those policies/actions which you are implementing to deflect attention of your own crimes against humanity.

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Yes, could be folded into 1 and 2, but should probably be it's own rule.

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Rule No. 7: Never believe your own propaganda.

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If they aren't original with you, why are they not appropriately attributed by you?

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I found them on the internet myself. You can search on " five rules of propaganda" and find various articles. I suspect they are somewhat shadow banned for obvious reasons. I'm just trying to bring them out of the shadows a bit. For example.

https://fakeologist.com/five-rules-of-propaganda/

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