DPRK just shows the limit of the tactic. It's otherwise an excellent smokescreen with normies
...a group other than "the masses") is to convince it's target. eg the "call the alt-right nazis!!" frenzy lefty media gets...
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...into which sends its readers into signalling fits. or the shift from "global warming" to "climate change" (interestingly...
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...I've seen this retconned by credulists as being done by their side because it was "more accurate" but it was literally...
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...invented by a GOP spin doctor named frank luntz). otoh strongest counterexample is euphemism treadmill: eg...
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..."genocide" sounds bad but "ethnic cleansing" sounds downright macabre because of the dissonance between connotation and...
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... denotation. also reclaimed insults like "queer", "shitlord", "deplorable" becoming badges of pride. anyway I'm rambling
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yes but it was a good ramble, I fully agree with it
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