The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court told the new liberal majority in a scathing email that they had staged a “coup” when they voted recently to weaken her powers and hire a new director of state courts.

  • @[email protected]
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    501 year ago

    It’s a very insidious way to make the country more like Russia, where there’s so much propaganda there is no objective truth, words have no meaning, and rule of law of even more nebulous.

    • babyphatman
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      191 year ago

      Hypernormalization. Adam Curtis spoke about this in his documentary.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I have to watch that. Although it sounds like not a very happy watch when I’m already on edge all the time from current news.

    • Bakkoda
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      81 year ago

      Firehose of propaganda is one of the main weapons discussed in Foundation of Geopolitics.

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      31 year ago

      Well quite a few republican politicians in the pocket of Russia. Would make sense they learn their strategies.