Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:01:03 No. 691790
To believe their propaganda is to deny what is in front of your very own eyes
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:06:08 No. 691794
In contrast to someone like Shapiro whose (usually successful, at first) schtick was making the other side look dumb and directing general anti-liberal discontent towards his own specific position, PragerU just seems more like they're cashing in on people who have already been convinced of what they preach but are willing to pay to hear it reaffirmed by someone who sounds smart.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:08:30 No. 691797
>>691788 When you watch their videos, it feels like you are being lectured to, and it is obvious to anyone with a double digit autism score that it is propaganda. Like
>>691794 said, their target audience is people who are already hooked. Same with Fox news and Toilet Paper USA.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:09:16 No. 691799
>>691797 nice word filter, I was not up to date on that
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:11:46 No. 691801
also there are some people who literally do not believe that propaganda exists in so called "free" (capitalist) countries.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:12:49 No. 691803
>>691788 Don't American schools show students these videos while on class?
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:14:35 No. 691805
>>691803 I’ve never seen one though it wouldn’t be surprising if one did considering how underfunded education is to the point where this shithole genuinely has had some of the worst schools on the planet for decades
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:32:24 No. 691828
>>691803 I think I recall some Twitter posts and the like saying stuff like "my high school teacher showed us a PragerU video in class" but even in a country like the USA I don't think this is something that has happened more than a few times.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 01:53:50 No. 691855
>>691788 I think the only degree anyone is going to get out of Prager U is a bachelor's in grift science.
Farris, 67, preaches at Assembly of Yahweh Seventh Day Church, an extremely conservative Messianic Israelite church founded by their parents. Women are not allowed to speak during services, and the church enforces a strict dress code. According to documents obtained by Reuters, tank tops are forbidden, as are sleeveless tops—“Blouses and dresses with a cap sleeve are acceptable,” the church decrees—skirts and shorts must be at least knee-length, no belly or back can show even when bending over or playing sports, and exposed cleavage is strictly forbidden. “See thru lace worn over exposed cleavage is unacceptable.”
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Then there was Adelson but he's dead now.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/prager-u-benefactors-dan-wilks-sheldon-adelson/ Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 02:21:26 No. 691887
>>691788 Don't underestimate them. Maybe they catch shit in their own comment section, but remember not every viewer leaves a comment. This shit is literally shown in class:
https://prospect.org/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/ I've had
redditors link me PragerU videos in normie subs thinking that they are some sort of sincere online university. While some of their videos are obviously too batshit to be taken seriously, some others aren't. PragerU produces slick, easily disgestable clips (perfect for the attention span of the average internet user) with seemingly good-faith data (90% will never check the sources in the comments).
I believe PragerU has shifted a considerable amount of people to the right.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 04:40:06 No. 692034
Link me a few exceptional examples of PragerU being Praggots.
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On this topic, we might as well bring up Gravel Institute. Are they any good? Are they progressive big-tent? They've had Wolff and Žîžêķ on, if that means anything. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIzzoM4RpGU )
>>691887 >I've had redditors link me PragerU videos in normie subs thinking that they are some sort of sincere online university I know the U does unironically stand for University, but I didn't think anyone believed it.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 05:21:28 No. 692061
>>691788 OP, look at how many viewers they get and how many videos they produce then put out on many platforms. They aren't bad at propaganda. You are underestimating them. You're also overestimating how successful their propaganda has to be. They are funded by oil barons. Their goal is to keep people content with the fossil fuel industry. To this end, they produce a slew of propaganda aiding the right wing of the culture war. They only need to convince a sliver of their many viewers (they advertise frequently and aggressively) to be successful in their mission to any extent.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 05:24:34 No. 692063
>>692054 >>692056 That's the proper way to counter Prager U. Not "debunk" them but memetically flip their propaganda on its head.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 08:41:01 No. 692151
>>691797 I think the point is more like feed their shit to the already hooked troglodytes so that they may use their enthusiasm to spread their talking point wider and so have better visibility in the wider social media sphere. PragerU is one of the spots where the distributed network gets it's marching orders. It's not actually meant to seriously convert fence sitters to their cause.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 09:05:27 No. 692170
I think the real purpose is to help facebook boomers to post coherent talking-points, where they would otherwise be posting world salad and incoherent nonsense.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 11:25:44 No. 692255
PragerU ?
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 17:14:08 No. 692636
>>692063 Yep. They are so silly it is better to flip their shit against them.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 17:38:26 No. 692687
>>691855 >The brothers, who made their fortune fracking natural gas They will burn in hell, no matter the silly dresses their wives wear in church
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 17:53:14 No. 692741
>>692042 This is essentially what is occuring.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 18:17:48 No. 692778
>>692741 Agreed, and in that they provide a comfortable "middle point" of capitalism realism between the screeching "far" leftoids and the cranks. The middle-pointering is not about
convincing people either but reframing what's controversial to think. It's more than rightwing outragebait though. Those are the incentives of every social network and "content" platform and so everyone but the principled few play by those rules.
It's also re-framing, similar to how the culture war plays out in mainstream media, every bit of left wing agitation as one side of a social media spat. When a left wing channel explains how you are being exploited it's just to recruit you for their side of the social media culture war. You can't trust anything they say or works they cite because, at the end of the day, it's all about Twitter and posting and posing and marketing campaigns and thinktanks and
not for you .
Back to grilling.
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 19:16:12 No. 692861
>>692859 >It just "wind and solar are unreliable On their own, that's true
>Burn more fossil fuels And they fucked up again
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 19:17:52 No. 692864
>>691788 Cuz they are as much anti-populist as they can be?
Cuz they are ridiculous "average ppl" channel?
etc.
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