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What's the word for something that people reshare a bunch without reading it because they are frustrated at the world and want to put it into other people's faces?

Not a left-right thing, I think we all have our poison. But also something that seems more like a rallying cry for the most frustrated rather than an unmotivated invitation to the undecided.

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Propaganda. It is a form of violence.

So by that reasoning, if I'm frustrated about global warming and I share an article without reading it I'm spreading propaganda?

And committing violence?

I don't think so.

If you are doing it primarily out of frustration, without reading the articles, and merely out of a desire to "put it in other people's faces", then yes.

Motivation matters. I may care deeply about the environment but if I act from a place of wanting to coerce others, I sow seeds of resistance to the very thing I am trying to achieve.

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