Why is the Department of War so bad at propaganda?

[Anonymous]

Well, it all started when a few narcissists decided to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War — in an effort to prop up their own sagging whatevers. That one change should show you just how bad they are at propaganda. Or maybe just how limited the audience is for their marketing efforts. Saggy.

[Anonymous]

Hegseth is just doing what worked for him at Fox News. Someday he'll learn that the Pentagon isn't Fox News.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are talking about war, where people are intentionally killed and soldiers die. Why would anyone make memes and post about war on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.?

Disgusting.

I am surprised this is even a thread.

I am also not surprised that MAGA buys into the propaganda of terrorist and totalitarian regimes.

FIFY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are talking about war, where people are intentionally killed and soldiers die. Why would anyone make memes and post about war on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.?

Disgusting.

Because propaganda works. We used to have people in charge who knew this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't DoW hire an army of GenZ to make memes and posting wars on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.? Iran, China, and Russia dominate the space and make the US look so bad with their epic trolling jobs that embarass the US and win over the minds of the rest of the world. Is there a reason the US is so bad at modern day propaganda?

And spare me the junk about propaganda neing in main stream news sources. Those are for dinosaur boomers. The real propaganada wars on platform like TT and Twitter. Iran has been owning Trump, the DoW, and the US in general in the space.

Wait - is this satire? You're claiming Iran, China, and Russia are winning over the world's minds because they produce tacky Lego videos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Memes don’t change minds.

Well, they apparently change stupid minds, per the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Memes don’t change minds.

Stupendously wrong. The US is getting absolutely steamrolled by China, Iran, and Russia in the virtual propaganda war space. It is as if the US isn't even trying.

Iran constantly sends out zingers like this that get millions views:

All the social media Americans use has been flooded with foreign propaganda, especially since the war started. It is highly noticeable.

DP. That's what you consider a "zinger"? And being "steamrolled"?

As for your last claim, yes - I agree. There's tons of cheesy, obviously fake propaganda all over the place. Especially here on DCUM. But it seems like that impresses you somehow, so I don't know what to tell you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are talking about war, where people are intentionally killed and soldiers die. Why would anyone make memes and post about war on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.?

Disgusting.

I am surprised this is even a thread.

I am also not surprised that DCUM’s finest buys into the propaganda of terrorist and totalitarian regimes.

+ a million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to the Pentagon in early February. None of the young people working there are bright. I’m being honest. The young people seemed like this was there first time in a big city. The older folks were smart but they cannot create this stuff.

No smart GenZ-er would want to be caught dead working for those people right now. They are very well informed and do not think highly of our government.

Gen-Z the first generation to be dumber than the previous generation. Once the last boomer and few competent Gen-X people retire we will quickly devolve back to the Stone Age.

They are going to grind remaining boomers up for dog food. I hope that they let some of us GenXers stick around, we didn’t all vote for Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are talking about war, where people are intentionally killed and soldiers die. Why would anyone make memes and post about war on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.?

Disgusting.

I am surprised this is even a thread.

I am also not surprised that MAGA buys into the propaganda of terrorist and totalitarian regimes.

FIFY

DP. It's not "MAGA" posting idiotic Iranian propaganda videos. But you know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the US is doing now is genuinely horrific by most sane standards. No amount of fluffing and propaganda will change that. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear — especially when no one wants either.

Maybe, but Iran killing 40,000 of their own citizens in 2 weeks is also horrifying. You barely see the US using that for propaganda to fire back at Iranian memes.

Because it was made up?

Pro-tip: if you’re presented with some crazy big number and no names, it’s probably made up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't DoW hire an army of GenZ to make memes and posting wars on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.? Iran, China, and Russia dominate the space and make the US look so bad with their epic trolling jobs that embarass the US and win over the minds of the rest of the world. Is there a reason the US is so bad at modern day propaganda?

And spare me the junk about propaganda neing in main stream news sources. Those are for dinosaur boomers. The real propaganada wars on platform like TT and Twitter. Iran has been owning Trump, the DoW, and the US in general in the space.

Democrats were wasting money on radio programs that no one listened to.

Once a government program is established it takes an act of god to eliminate.

[Anonymous]

Tad Stoermer said on IG yesterday that the admin has been asking US embassies to recruit American academics abroad with large followings to carry out MAGA's messaging and is to "feel organic rather than centralized."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are talking about war, where people are intentionally killed and soldiers die. Why would anyone make memes and post about war on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TT, Reddit etc.?

Disgusting.

DP. Because wars need buy in to help win. Even Bush asked the American people if he should go to war in Iraq. Trump just bombed Iran with no buy in. Our own government floated the idea to take down a plane full of Americans and blame it on Cuba during JFK's tenure, so they could go to war.

Also, let's not forget Trump and Hegseth started this inane, childish info war with their video game reels on the DOD social media channels. So, Iran has been going viral with it's L.O.S.E.R Lego video and the latest one with Hegseth kissing Trump's @ss after Trump goes down on Clinton. They just posted another one saying that Trump went to Epstein's island 40x, suggesting that their hack uncovered Epstein files.

If you don't like it, I suppose you tell Trump to stop sending Americans to their death. The US hasn't had a plane downed by an enemy in over 20 years and a drunk Fox News host is firing seasoned, respected generals in the middle of a war.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile Iran is dropping bangers.