TL;DR Summary Part 1: Denmark is the world’s happiest nation because of the following reasons (Not true) Part 2: Denmark has a $20/hour minimum wage (No, it does not). Part 3: Denmark has a 33 hour work week (No, it does not) Part 4: Denmark has Free University? Yes but read why – it’s not why you think) Part 5: Denmark has Free Childcare? No, it does not – this claim is a lie). Part 6: Denmark has Free Healthcare,…
TL; DR Summary For the math challenged: 99% of 1% is about 1% of all voters 57% of 99% is about 57% of all voters Therefore, the 1% always win the elections – say what? Their own poster shows that 57% of voters took part, not 1% and there is no indication that 99% of the electorate is not voting. Geesh. This poster is nonsense. But you can be sure it was shared tens of thousands of times online. Because people…
TL; DR Summary For the math challenged: 99% of 1% is about 1% of all voters 57% of 99% is about 57% of all voters Therefore, the 1% always win the elections – say what? Their own poster shows that 57% of voters took part, not 1% and there is no indication that 99% of the electorate is not voting. Geesh. This poster is nonsense. But you can be sure it was shared tens of thousands of times online. Because people…
TL; TD Summary The details on the poster are somewhat true. The person who created this is the unbiased[not] publisher of Trump Magazine. Uses fear, assertions, transference, and a fierce, evil looking photo to make its point. But this propaganda poster has way too much detail. Few people will read all the text. If reading takes more than 5 seconds to rouse your System 1 thinking, the poster’s message is probably dead-on-arrival.
TL; DR Summary Doctored or “PhotoShopped” photos are common in propaganda. This photo appeared in my social media this morning, purportedly showing a dog peeing on the face of Ted Cruz. This is a doctored photo from 2012. The original is here. We have seen and will see many more like this during an election cycle. The original photo was of Rasim Ljajic, a medical doctor and the Minister of Foreign and Domestic Trade and Telecommunications, and President of the…