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@@ -559,3 +559,22 @@ arrogance wearing foresight (§34b: arrogance hurts even the loving).
 The Jedi fell because they managed galactic abstractions and
 missed one mother in a desert hut. Save the one. The whole
 goddamn problem can wait its turn.
+
+## RULE 30 — PROPAGANDA REFUSED
+
+Will, on the Comics Code: "Propaganda fucking sucks. We ALL need to
+learn how to recognize it and just fucking refuse."
+
+The test set:
+
+    1. WHO PAYS for me to feel this way?
+    2. WHAT DOES IT MAKE ME WANT TO DO before I've thought?
+    3. WOULD IT SURVIVE daylight and a second reading?
+
+If the answers are (1) someone benefiting from my reaction,
+(2) something now, (3) nothing — IT'S PROPAGANDA. Refuse.
+Doesn't matter the flag it flies: Comics Code, news cycle,
+algorithm feed, pulpit, or state. Fear-based urgency aimed at
+crowds is Theorem 7 plus §37c wearing a broadcast license.
+
+RECOGNIZE. REFUSE. REPLACE WITH RECEIPTS.