Typical COINTELPRO shenanigans, amirite.

Then, why’d ye bother responding… anyways, how’s rent on your part?

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.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

Now, go ahead and downvoot, you lemmy.world arseholes

12+ hour shifts

Wow, you must be making a lot of surplus value money for yourself, your Ted Lasso fascist PMC Neoliberal masters bosses, and finance capital the shareholders

Basado

Yeah… let’s make it quick, boys : )

An umbrella…

Some fellow student named Jordan did it years ago…

I’m still pissed and wondering where wtf he lives

Not anything specific; apparently left-liberal media like “Morning Joe” is being axed or postponed, cuz of the Republican rightist’s stupid allegations that left-liberal media caused the assassination attempt… I find it absurd

Not to mention, Biden decided to suspend some campaign ads because of this

Can you screw your mother, man? This is no time for politics here…

Tell me, where is this global language where it has 3.5 billion speakers, if not half? You’ve indicated it’s not the case…?

Do you think I ask in bad faith, or do you ask in bad faith?

China Moves Toward Ban on Japanese-Style ‘Maid Cafés’

Reads text

That’s dramatic… aren’t they just giving women servers rights to not be humiliated as much there… (don’t scream SeeSeePee control all over again)

Did they negotiate directly with the Palestinians in 1948 and arrive on the agreement to share the land according to the borders that existed before 1967? [ Does solving the issue by war count?

Well, ykw, agree to disagree… I’ll kill the convo right here, I’m sorry…

1st, I don’t think it takes a person to know that what Israel’s mitliary is doing in Gaza that the U.S supports, quacks like a humanitarian crisis akin to genocide, regardless of whether you agree or not. The article indicates that

It doesn’t take facts to know that these are bad optics, mon liberal ami…

2nd, lemme tell you this… if the Saudis dealt with Yemenis and couldn’t bomb them out of existence and cause famine, why do you think an overstretched U.S army can deal with them?

Can’t they finish their Ukraines and Israels before Yemen?

decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

Someone can just see a theoretical event happening like that and just write and TITLE the news as:

Man leads a pro-democracy movement against corrupt one-party-rule and its institutions…

That being said, scapegoating an outgroup is indeed a demagoguery…

Do you take me for bad-faith arguer?

Tbf, western tourists kinda be like that tho…

meat crayons

Now, that’s a colorful right there

Mental hospital : Napoleon factory (credit to Robert Heinlein)

Why wouldn’t we want more Napoleons tho?

They’re both negative. Scapegoating an outgroup is another form of demagoguery, so is decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

Pardon me if I find this confusing but this seems to be case of “There’s actually zero difference between bad and good things.” without context…

Have you fully thought through your words to type this out? 😔

What’s the other?

I mean come on, demagoguery and populism shouldn’t be subsects of each other… they practically are synonymous, but one has a more neutral connotation…

You mean demogogery?