When the government or media (more often than not it's both working together somehow) drive fear of a new threat (often terrorism or a deadly disease) into the people of the nation and keep them from expressing all of their freedoms and/or views and doing the things they want to do
Notable stories/events that have been constantly attacked/used for Government/Media fear:
-Terrorism
-Communism (see McCarthyism/ Red Scare)
-AIDS
-Drugs
- 9/11
-The "Brain Eating Amoeba"
-Terrorism
-Communism (see McCarthyism/ Red Scare)
-AIDS
-Drugs
- 9/11
-The "Brain Eating Amoeba"
by Gaaraofthedamned August 22, 2011
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I went to buy some light bulbs and the cashier started telling me about how the mainstream media is covering up UFOs. When I told him I didn't have time to talk, he told me I had been "blue pilled."
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by GarthCrooks June 17, 2009
Get the Virgin Media mug.media manipulation is the use of omission, exaggeration or repetition to make a 'news' story something it is not.
Often used to promote a particular ideology or fashionable concept.
Often used to promote a particular ideology or fashionable concept.
The staging of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad was a classic case of media manipulation. Pictures of this non-event were broadcast globally and repeatedly to give the impression of a massive demo when in fact there were only around 150 people present.
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Get the Media manipulation mug.Someone who feeds from the aknowledgement of others over social media. The types of media whore are:
1. The 'loner' - this whore will go on to a social media and suck the life out of one single target looking for friendship.
2. The 'twit' - these whores are twitter 'over-users', who post crap about their lives that nobody needs to know.
3. The 'leech' - these whores absorb the creative works of others, then shit it out as a big bunch of uselessness, which they spam all over the internet.
1. The 'loner' - this whore will go on to a social media and suck the life out of one single target looking for friendship.
2. The 'twit' - these whores are twitter 'over-users', who post crap about their lives that nobody needs to know.
3. The 'leech' - these whores absorb the creative works of others, then shit it out as a big bunch of uselessness, which they spam all over the internet.
Justin Bieber is one example of the media whore type: 'leech'. Thats all you need, Justin Bieber. Perfect example
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Get the Media whore mug.Medical Apartheid is a form of social discrimination that deems uninoculated people as inferior to those who are inoculated and therefore expendable and not worthy of the same freedoms.
Countries are staring to implement Medical Apartheid by only allowing inoculated people to leave their homes. Ie: Non inoculated people are not allowed to leave or travel freely.
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Hillary Clinton supporter: How you dare this country is built on lies you fucking motherfucking racist misogynist sexist anti-democracist anti-freedomist, you are ass-raped traitor and agent of Kremlinplaying into hands of Donald Trump, when our glorious CIA beloved and Pentagon cherished overlordess will come to power you will pay for your treason, we will fucking lock you up in guantanamo and waterboard you till you'll confess that you're mentally insane and all you said was a lie and no emails ever existed!
Hillary Clinton supporter: How you dare this country is built on lies you fucking motherfucking racist misogynist sexist anti-democracist anti-freedomist, you are ass-raped traitor and agent of Kremlinplaying into hands of Donald Trump, when our glorious CIA beloved and Pentagon cherished overlordess will come to power you will pay for your treason, we will fucking lock you up in guantanamo and waterboard you till you'll confess that you're mentally insane and all you said was a lie and no emails ever existed!
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