• @WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    Every literate adult outside the US who’s been paying even cursory attention: “Yes, we’ve been telling you this for 50 years while you’ve acted like gargantuan belligerent shitheads. This information wasn’t kept secret, you’re just a nation of twelve year olds.”

    I swear to Christ, the whole place is full of evangelicals who know fuck all about their bibles and citizens who know fuck all about their country.

    • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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      115 days ago

      You don’t understand… Propaganda in the US is “flood the zone” style.

      They intentionally spread crazy conspiracy theories to make us skeptical about fully documented conspiracies. It trains us to be skeptical or downplay things when we’re presented with evidence

      So when you start talking about McKinsey, the heritage foundation, the world bank/IMF - people react as if you’re talking about lizard people. And even if you convince them, they assume it’s exaggerated, because real conspiracies are everywhere and often as stupid as the people involved

      Propaganda works