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The system is working exactly as intended (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

the disinformation campaign has been running since the mid 1930's and it's been taught in our schools and disseminated via legacy media since the 1940's.

a key feature of the campaign is to make americans predisposed to outright reject the alternatives that have already been proven to work in irl and all of those alternatives are aligned with what @Cowbee@lemmy.ml already told you.

anything else is going to be a rinse and repeat of what we already have.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    a key feature of the campaign is to make americans predisposed to outright reject the alternatives that have already been proven to work

    Not just with socialism. This was the response to the civil rights movement of the 60s/70s, to the environmentalism of the 80s/90s, and to the anti-war movement of the 00s/10s.

    Every progressive position is pillared as unworkable, overly expensive, and jobs-killing.

    Meanwhile, we sink $1T/year into chat bots that spam your Twitter feed with racist porn and armies of tweaked out sheriffs deputies to crash their cars into anyone they consider illegally brown

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    those were all socialist aligned movements:

    the civil rights movement -- the black panthers in particular -- was literally socialists and bombed (also literally) because of it. MLK jr.'s cadre took great pains to ensure that their efforts didn't get labeled as socialist because of it. the environmentalists of the 80's/90's -- green peace in particular -- was also heavily socialist influenced and got labeled as such for not making efforts like MLK jr did.

    now-a-days, the campaign misinforms americans that leftists don't reliably vote despite examples like clinton and obama proving otherwise and there being enough green, psl, dsa, cpusa votes to counter republicans easily. this misinformation is done to cover for the fact that the democrats don't want to adopt platforms that left leaning voters want and this is most recently self evident in kamala harris' campaign and its attempt to sway republicans to vote democrat rather than shore up her democratic base.

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