<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Well, Mr. Moulton, why don't you come right out and say what is wrong with the video? Details, not generalities. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:51 PM F. C. Moulton via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 12/28/20 6:25 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> I think for something to be propaganda there has to be attempts to <br>
> persuade. All I saw on the video was descriptions of the various positions.<br>
> bill w<br>
<br>
One method to persuade is to make inaccurate or misleading statements <br>
which might tend to persuade people of some position. The video in <br>
questions contains inaccurate or misleading statements. One could take <br>
the position that the inaccurate or misleading statements instead of <br>
being deliberate falsehoods are instead the result of the <a href="http://prageru.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">prageru.com</a> <br>
team which being uninformed. Of course this raises the question of <br>
whether this lack of basic knowledge is the result of cognitive problems <br>
or if it is the result of deliberately failing to do basic investigation <br>
and study.<br>
<br>
Whether it is sloppy scholarship or malicious propaganda the point <br>
remains that the <a href="http://prageru.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">prageru.com</a> video does not stand up to serious scrutiny.<br>
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F. C. Moulton<br>
<a href="mailto:moulton@moulton.com" target="_blank">moulton@moulton.com</a><br>
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