Everyone believes in conspiracy theories; the question isn’t whether but which.

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There are two parties because it’s a first past the post system, but that is a red herring. It’s not the source of the problem. The problem is that the US is a bourgeois democracy, AKA an oligarchy.

The reason it’s in Republicans the duopoly’s best interest to keep people stupid is that stupid people are much easier to propagandize to.

FTFY

Let’s you and him fight.

We’ve been propagandized to believe that “centrist” journalism is the most reliable, and that the further from center the less reliable, and given how far to the right the Overton window is in capitalist states, “centrism” is objectively right wing. And the premise of “centrist objectivity” doesn’t hold water.

Unfortunately I don’t have time right now to dig up my relevant previouslies on media literacy, propaganda, and Gramscian hegemonic theory.

Edit to add: even what the average person considers to be”ethical” is shaped by how he ruling class. In capitalist states, for instance, private property is sacrosanct.

What the propagandized perceive as “unbiased” is in fact the hegemonic bias of the ruling class. That’s what you’re asking for without even realizing it.

Dialectical materialists and Cassandras, get in on this Polymarket thing. It’s free money.

I guess I should have expected deflection and “appeal to hypocrisy” when naming authoritarians.

Can you be any more a Redditor?

This conversation has already been had out a thousand times here. You brought nothing new to the conversation—in fact you brought nothing—so I can’t be bothered.

But, you indirectly proved my point - authoritarians are belligerent.

That wasn’t a point you made, and that’s not what belligerent means in the context I used it.

Trump’s regime is like every tin-pot authoritarian ever. Lies about everything, hides losses, and makes up “victories”.

These are in no way specific to Trump or “authoritarians.” Many—probably most—belligerents do those things.

Same shit Putin, the Kim Jongs, or even Castro did.

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap

Is OC not answering the question? Belief in a “woke mind virus” is a popular toxic mentality nowadays.

OP, please mark this NSFW.

We used to do imperialism.

We still do, but we used to, too.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks rule 1

Reporter, the first rule of Lemmy is you don’t make false reports against site admins’ posts.

Maybe, though I’m not so sure that @[email protected] is as obtuse as he presents himself to be.

Why is all of Lemmy politics?

Do you know why the Lemmy platform and the lemmy.ml instance were created in the first place?

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
• What is lemmy.ml?

Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems.

Politics is orthogonal to depth. The existence of shallow politics in no way suggests the absence of deep politics.

In October 2021, she was brought on as an intern at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a CIA propaganda project founded by notorious spymaster Allen Dulles which nominally separated from the Agency in the 70s.

I think she probably knew what she was doing in joining a US military-propaganda-industrial “news” outlet run by the USAGM.

Habibiazad frequently collaborates with Deepa Parent, the disgraced former fashion blogger turned Iranian protest-whisperer who deleted her Twitter account this February after The Grayzone exposed her role in fabricating protest death tolls. Like Parent, Habibiazad rocketed to mainstream media prominence during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests which shook Iran in 2022.

That’s how corporate media works. If you peddle for empire you get promoted, and if you challenge empire you never get work again.

US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential.

Indeed, not only have none of the hawks who promoted, cheerled, or authorized the criminal invasion of Iraq ever been held accountable, they’ve since thrived: they’ve found success in the media, the speaking circuit, government jobs, and cushy think tank gigs, and they currently occupy the Oval Office. Meanwhile, those in the mainstream who openly opposed the war—like, for example, Phil Donahue and Chris Hedges—were either fired or relegated to alternative media outlets. The almost uniform success of all the Iraq War cheerleaders provides the greatest lesson about what really helps one get ahead in public life: It’s not being right, doing the right thing, or challenging power, but going with prevailing winds and mocking anyone who dares to do the opposite.

To be expected from The Grayzone.

Ironically The Grayzone is more often correct than Wikipedia.

Yes, specifically a colossal fuckup in attempting to exfiltrate enriched uranium.

It’s Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses

The geolocated wreckage of the C-130s which were apparently using a local “agricultural airstrip” (32.223369, 51.897678) just happens to be right over a mountain, about 35km away, from Isfahan’s nuclear facility, where Iran’s ‘near-weapons grade’ enriched uranium is alleged to be stored.

In an article just last month, [Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency] Rafael Grossi stated the following:

Almost half of ‌Iran’s uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.