"We expressed our condolences and willingness to provide emergency humanitarian help to the affected people according to the needs of the U.S. side," a spokesperson for Chinese government agency said.
That's not very materialist of you. If Chinese money helped rebuild an entire town and got people back in homes, those people would absolutely love the Chinese government forever.
The narrative might be that the shady yellow man is manipulating the masses, but it would fall flat against the material power of actually helping the masses.
Which is why they'll never allow this to happen. The propaganda only works of you deny the aid.
Fascist propaganda beats material aid through genocide and violence. They win by preventing improvements to material conditions and blaming the suffering that follows on racial subgroups or the very communists they prevented from providing aid.
I'm not saying they will, I'm just saying that material aid is the best way to fight against propaganda. No matter what they'll be targeted by the American hegemony, but actually providing aid and helping to rebuild a community will massively increase their support from that community.
Didn't Covid kinda disprove this? If the brain-worms are sufficiently advanced, they can absolutely trump material reality. In particular I'm thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people who know someone who died of COVID, and is still refusing to either get vaccinated or wear masks, or do literally anything to prevent themselves from becoming the next corpse on the pile.
The issue with COVID was lack of response. Because there was no material aid and good active education going on, it allowed more insidious fascist propaganda to slip in.
There wasn't a solid safety net, and tons of people lost their jobs.
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That's not very materialist of you. If Chinese money helped rebuild an entire town and got people back in homes, those people would absolutely love the Chinese government forever.
The narrative might be that the shady yellow man is manipulating the masses, but it would fall flat against the material power of actually helping the masses.
Which is why they'll never allow this to happen. The propaganda only works of you deny the aid.
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Fascist propaganda beats material aid through genocide and violence. They win by preventing improvements to material conditions and blaming the suffering that follows on racial subgroups or the very communists they prevented from providing aid.
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Yes, but material aid will always trump propaganda. You can't eat or live in propaganda.
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I'm not saying they will, I'm just saying that material aid is the best way to fight against propaganda. No matter what they'll be targeted by the American hegemony, but actually providing aid and helping to rebuild a community will massively increase their support from that community.
Didn't Covid kinda disprove this? If the brain-worms are sufficiently advanced, they can absolutely trump material reality. In particular I'm thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people who know someone who died of COVID, and is still refusing to either get vaccinated or wear masks, or do literally anything to prevent themselves from becoming the next corpse on the pile.
The issue with COVID was lack of response. Because there was no material aid and good active education going on, it allowed more insidious fascist propaganda to slip in.
There wasn't a solid safety net, and tons of people lost their jobs.