But what if I am??

“US mercenary forces to invade Haiti”

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

-Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the overthrow of Communism by Micheal Parenti

If the police in China were never seen to kill anybody, that meant that surely they must be killing in secret. Why they would bother with secrecy or killing at all was never explained

Who’d have thought that not letting your infrastructure rot would put one in a better position to do infrastructure stuff? Not us, because planning ahead is for poors and commies

By that standard PragerU is not propaganda because it originates from private funding. Do you wanna go back and think about that one, maybe try again?

Literal medieval peasant brain, believes in good and evil and assumes anyone who doesnt must just be lying about it. Like how a thief thinks everyone is out to steal from them. Sad.

You’ve spent this interaction running though every cope and deflection in the book, because on some level you recognize that you’re so far out of your depth you’re at risk of barotrauma.

Having this pointed out will not deter you, because your ego is too fragile to let you walk away.

1.5 billion people, roughly one fight of all currently living human beings

Lol you think advancing beyond a Marvel movie-based worldview for children is “galaxy brain” shit

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Imperialism is when standardized paperwork

In our view it’s not that western liberals are victims of propaganda, but that propaganda grants them permission to be continue being ignorant:

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

From the essay Masses, Elites and Rebels: the Theory of “Brainwashing”

school, you should try it

What did you learn in school?

It’s easy to feel smart when you keep correctly predicting the outcome of wars and shit

Liberals projecting their supremacist and childlike Good Guy/Bad Guy worldview onto communists is like a deep sea tube worm trying to explain flight to a bird.

Cool bug fact: many US companies continued to do business in nazi Germany throughout ww2, to the point that allied bombers were briefed specifically to avoid hitting their factories

Man this thing even self-deprecates like a redditor

Just don’t mention the Roma

That must be why a third of America has French names for everything, because Europe wasn’t interested in colonizing it

Erm that’s not quite how that works

Erm shut the fuck up dumbass

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”

-Winston Churchill on Palestine

“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes”

-Winstom Churchill saying Gas the Untermensch

‘I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations’

-Winston Churchill just freestyling

“I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he’s not there than that he is there,”

-Tony Blair being a fucking weasel about his role in a war that killed over a million people and created ISIS

Liberals believe in nothing.