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It’s not really a surprise. A key tankie belief is that freedom of speech fundamentally shouldn’t exist (yes, even as they themselves enjoy it).
Propaganda is just the act of spreading information that furthers your cause, the term is neutral towards whether the information is factual or not. All political parties and activists engage in propaganda, it’s literally what they do.
That’s the dictionary definition, sure, but that doesn’t cover common use, or connotation. When most people use “propaganda,” they typically mean government-affiliated messaging that hides the truth and pushes a narrative to get people to fall in line.
These people are technically incorrect.