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[inflatableDodo]

>This remains to be studied

I think it is fair for me to assume that propaganda does influence politics without having to commission a study on it.

[lmm → inflatableDodo]

Why? Because propagandists try really hard? Because they spend a lot of money on it?

[inflatableDodo → lmm]

History books mostly.

[Spooky23 → lmm]

The US 2016 election is pretty damn conclusive. Push a simple message to the swing states of the Midwest, and boom.

[JetSpiegel → Spooky23]

If Hillary had not pulled strings on the DCCC, or she actually campaigned on those states, no amount of ads could have swinged them.

[lmm → Spooky23]

That's the election in which one candidate massively out-spent the other but nevertheless lost, right?

[brycesbeard → inflatableDodo]

the relevant question is whether it influences on a scale we want to stop. Treating it as a binary isn’t very useful.