• IninewCrow
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    228 days ago

    That’s the problem … American isn’t paying attention … they haven’t been paying attention for 40 years

    • @[email protected]
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      028 days ago

      The republicans have, people seem to think this all came together with trump but behind the scenes i 'll bet this is a long con to hand America to the very rich, and its worked perfectly, you just dont realise it yet, there are no more checks and balances, you arent getting another election.

      • Doom
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        127 days ago

        The orchestrator of the Red Scare, MacCarthy had a left hand man, Roy Cohn.

        Roy Cohn is Donald Trump’s mentor, his other mentee was Roger Stone. Roger Stone is the one who got bush elected in 2000 by kerfuffling in Florida with proto proud boys

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        028 days ago

        @Aliktren @ininewcrow I think they’ve been packing all the little local committees for elections and education for years. It’s not a coincidence that so many black people got kicked off voter rolls at the last minute in certain states.

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      028 days ago

      Or they have been paying attention to the wrong thing for years. Imagine if your country allowed a right wing propaganda media arm to masquerade as “news” for 40 years.

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        028 days ago

        Bro the average American is more plugged in and detached from reality than Neo was back when he was just Thomas Anderson. They don’t even know reality is out there.

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          028 days ago

          We fully entered the realm of the hyperreal, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. Our digital representations of reality have more influence over us than our actual material conditions…at least until we can no longer afford to eat or have a home.

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            28 days ago

            The Century of the Self documentary is a great introduction to how we got here.

            Basically, PR was always about controlling people and never about advertising. Bernays, the father of PR, even says his intentions were to rehabilitate the concept of propaganda, because the general public had begun to see it as a dirty word following WWI.