Do friends contradict themselves?
Very well then they contradict themselves,
(They are large, they contain multitudes.)

It’s barbaric: they have to pay taxes!

You’re speaking in theory & generalities when we know concretely & specifically that the large majority of Israelis support ethnic cleansing.

We know what it is, so you can stop spamming us with Wikipedia quotes.

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.

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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.