I don’t know about y’all, but if I grew up in a country that never has the news criticizing its leaders, I’d be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified. Do people in authoritarian countries actually just eat the propaganda? To what extent do they believe the propaganda?

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    21 hours ago

    If you see propaganda everywhere, the it was successful on you. One purpose of propaganda is to erode the fundamental trust in society and sow distrust about anything and anyone, that way people become politically ineffective and easy to manipulate.

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      20 hours ago

      I don’t have any significant distrust in society in general, just a heavy distrust of the greedy oligarchs in positions of power.

      Meanwhile, the orange turd posted an AI generated image of himself as the next pope…

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=5AvLxeTvivY

      Go ahead and read some comments there, he done offended even the atheists out there!

      I’m not a governor, attorney, judge, senator, etc in any position to directly do anything about the crooked powers in charge, but as a citizen, I guess this is the best I can do, share the news.