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I disagree with this post completely. Please read this article if you haven't. Westerners are not gullible little know-nothings that are helplessly caught up in the propaganda. They actively seek it out in order to justify their exploitative way of life.
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
Yeah that's kinda my point actually
It is? It reads like you're making fun of people who call out westerners for enthusiastically chugging the kool aid
I'm more making fun of people who mock them for chugging the kool aid but the change their tone once there's a more serious discussion of westoids kool aid chugging habit.
You can do both, i can make fun of the psychos who fell into bullshit and still acknowledge that is a shame that they fell into something that they were being programmed to do
If propaganda doesnt do anything and people are just the way they are. Why bother doing propaganda? Why fly american warjets over thr superbowl even though it costs an insane amount of money
Obviously propaganda does something, it would be ridiculous to argue otherwise. But propaganda is ridiculously effective on Americans, more than it really should be, so much so it feels like the propagandists have gotten kinda lazy with it because they know they don't have to put enough effort it.
I don't think propaganda would work this well if the population wasn't actively buying into it rather than just being passively exposed to it.
The more money you spend on propaganda the more effective it is.
Americans have unique material circumstances being benefactors of the imperial core and being completed isolated amongst other things.
if you were born here you'd probably do the same shit a lot of these hogs are doing
I was born here
You know what I mean
i mean this kind of reasoning you have is pretty nasty if you apply it anywhere else, for example the black community. they should just know better right?
The divide is Domestic vs Foreign
Yeah i dunno you havent really met how low the floor is on how stupid Americans can be