• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    9 hours ago

    Support. We’re the most propagandized country in the world and need to be free of this tyrannical bullshit.

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        1 hour ago

        I definitely can’t take full credit, but I appreciate this. My mom was a foster system case worker and bestowed her empathetic ways to me. I also admire people like Patrice Lumumba, Fred Hampton, Parenti and a few other folks. I like to assume most working class folks aren’t approaching a debate or idea with malice. Our brains are so inundated with stuff on the daily; we have opportunities to reduce that load and be respectful.

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      7 hours ago

      What qualifiers are there that we’re the most propagandized country in the world? I’m of the opinion that that’s an incredibly hard thing to truly know and quantify.

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        5 hours ago

        The US has the largest military and police force in the world, and has had their hand in a multitude of regime changes, top secret experiments, etc. “Most propagandized in the world” might be a stretch, but the propaganda machine that has been manufacturing consent on this scale for years is easily among the worst of them all. Couple that with being in bed with Israel—another heavily propagandized population.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, I’d accept “we’re heavily propagandized,” but “most in the world” is quite the claim.