Police states use propaganda by disguising tyranny by using cartoons, minimizing important stories, distracting people from scandals by running stories about defective families or bread and circuses, glorifying government successes, and diverting attention from domestic problems by focusing on crises in foreign countries.
@freepatriot
Replace "commies" with "any other kind of authoritarian dictator" and this is perfect.
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