• HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    10 months ago

    idk maybe I'm slow to realize this, maybe I'm not getting a clear view of the facts, but I grew up under the Bush administration, and became enfranchised under the Obama administration, and I thought the obvious takeaways there were that 1) the US empire is irredeemably evil and 2) the liberal proponents of empire are not to be trusted any more than their conservative fellows. I'm not expecting everyone my age to be a communist, but I don't know how you attain this level of obliviousness unless you did not know how to read for most of your life. This is something beyond mere propagandization, these people live in an alternate dimension or quite possibly in the basement of the pentagon. It's drivin me nuts.

    • Notcontenttobequiet [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      As someone of a similar age and path, that should have been the takeaway. But, in my case it really took until 2016 DNC shenanigans to really cement that. It's just insanity for these people where we do the same horrendous shit and they expect a different result.

      Also, something that has been mentioned on here before is reading mainstream news. Like, I consider myself pretty well informed, but I don't read the New York Times or listen to NPR. I think they don't realize the amount of propaganda that is contained within even the most neutral articles. Reactionary behavior is ingrained into the liberal, western brain.