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2020-01-01 Government

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-01 04:48|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 There's no such thing as 'soft power'. As they say in China, power only flows from the barrel of a gun. One can create goodwill however. But the intent behind silly overtures is easily deciphered in the modern world. Asians despise pretense, because they do it better and more subtly. We pioneered in hypocrisy !

If you're genuinely disposed to doing good for others without expectation of reward, history rewards you with a legacy of latent credibility. Mutual respect and humility play a great role too.

It cannot be purchased by entertainment, art, cultural appropriation or acknowledgement. The Trudeau School of Political Artifice that most of the liberal deepState belong to, is transparent and rather embarrassing.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-01 05:07|| 2020-01-01 05:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, especially in the pop culture space, it's the "sucking" part of "sucking up" that the practitioners seem to be most adept at.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-01 07:24|| 2020-01-01 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Soft power does work, just not on foreign nations that control access to info. Dems have been running on soft power for decades. How many liberals do you know that think they know everything that are totally uninformed and absolutely refuse to listen to alternate news sources... That's soft power.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-01 12:07|| 2020-01-01 12:07|| Front Page Top

#4 What Dron said.

So many foolish conceits took hold over our supposedly smart people during the last 25 years - bullshit, made-up terms like
soft power
undocumented immigrant
responsibility to protect
gender dysphoria
black lives matter
toxic masculinity
white privilege

Posted by Lex 2020-01-01 12:13|| 2020-01-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Ruprecht, I think the old (new) words are still the best words for the tactics you describe: agitprop newspeak and dezinformatsiya

Posted by Lex 2020-01-01 12:15|| 2020-01-01 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Lets not forget "socialist realism".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-01 12:57|| 2020-01-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 microaggression

Posted by Lex 2020-01-01 13:03|| 2020-01-01 13:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Then again, it seems the economic power that Trump is exploiting has a degree of effectiveness, though note well, its tied to the hard power to protect it from other attacks.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-01 20:22|| 2020-01-01 20:22|| Front Page Top

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