Flooding the zone with shit
Der Artikel zum Anhören: Your browser does not support the audio tag. Tonight, I had an interesting thought that I want to share, especially with those who don’t understand the request for CWs (content warnings) for political news and stuff yet. Maybe you’ve already heard about the right-wing propaganda tactic of “flooding the zone with shit”. It is especially used in the US these days. For example, by the Trump administration if he sings so many executive orders that you can’t keep up. It’s a tactic to overwhelm you. To make you freeze by the avalanche of competing stories you read and want to act on. And they know that many of the stories will get debunked or overturned by a court. But this is okay because they could still get their important, potentially a little less extreme stuff done without bigger protest. … »