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Trump's heresy was not literally true, but it was grounded in a fundamental truth that has been denied to Americans so the national security state could bilk them for billions.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even though your links may be valid, they're not contributing to the conversation in the sense that you didn't provide any argument.

Do you mean to say lemmy.ml isn't full of propaganda and I should leárn about media literacy, or you think it might be full of propaganda and that's why I should learn about media literacy? Or maybe you just wanted to share the links, idk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I mean to say that, just because you don’t notice the propaganda on other instances, and in popular media in general, doesn’t mean it’s not there. You may just see it as “common sense.”

Cultural hegemony

📺 The Fascism of Common Sense

📺 Hegemony of Common Sense:Interview Of Dean Manders

Class domination is effectuated more by the mystification of consciousness—the distortion, the obfuscation, the redirection of thought and ideas—than through force or even the threat of force. Of course, force is always in the background—it’s always there. […] If you can mystify people, if you can get people to participate in their own “subjugation,” you’ll get people to become their own worst enemies, you’ve won. And you’ve won without any police forces, military forces, or whatever.