why would you think a video of your best friend abusing a bunch of animals is real?

Why is a difference you can’t notice important to you?

Das Kapital in the original German

non-fiction

what

That looked ok and I was nodding along until I got to the part where it’ll be governed by Blair and Trump.

why the lying war criminal Blair?

because he has a sterling track record of fixing Middle Eastern countries, of course!

Yeah, kinda one of the assumptions of my pet comm !noyank@lemmy.ml

I don’t think propaganda has a lot to do with intention

Most propaganda is like this: you’ve subconsciously absorbed it all your life and it comes out ur mouth. That’s how ideologies get perpetuated usually, rather than by cunning.

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Example?

Any of them indexes would certainly have France higher than China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

“freedom” is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric

Pretty common around the world IME

Israel kills far more Palestinian gays than Palestine does

Jaysus

I like the parallel to the “wake up, sheeple, do your own research” crowd.

Or “take the red pill”

Any time someone says something like that, they invariably mean “start believing what I believe”