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  1. I mean, this is factually correct. They make it sound nefarious with "a single group of people" but it absolutely is true that capitalists control every aspect of society regardless of whether the president is red or blue.

  2. I mean, Bill Clinton was a regular at Little Saint James. It's funny to me that it's just democrats listed, like come on guys we know that rich people have engaged in pedophilia so at least some of them are dems lmao.

  3. No, dumb maga bullshit

  4. No, dumb maga bullshit

  5. No, dumb bullshit older than maga

  6. No, Alex Jones bullshit. I think the single greatest argument against this is just how ineffective every school shooting has been to create gun laws. Like why would they keep doing this if it never results in stricter regulations?

  7. I don't know about specific videos but Ukriane absolutely has openly lied about tons of shit in this war so I'm pretty comfortable saying they've blamed tons of shit they've done on Russia.

  8. If you incorporate a Nazi militia into your national military, does that make you a Nazi sympathizer? Like I don't think Zelensky himself is a Nazi but geez this question is hedging a lot.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is a very good example about how the concept of conspiracy theories are used to discredit unpleasant facts and dissenting views. In this example settled facts like the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the fascist elements in the Ukrainian state are lumped together with completely deranged bullshit. In that way doubting the official NATO line becomes equivalent with believing that vaccines are evil.

    Is this a conspiracy theory in itself? Are the stenographers of power doing this deliberately? I don't think so. I think journalists and politicians and basically everyone who gets to speak in bourgeois mainstream media is so thoroughly propagandise that they believe all of this themselves. They're not plotting to plant brainworms among the masses as much as they're infecting people with their own brainworms.

    • pink_mist [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      You think the people who make their money from boner pill ads are going to hire a guy that doesn't believe in boner pill ads? As Chompsky says, they've been selected and promoted for having the right brainworms.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Nobody is telling them what to write but if they wanted to write something different they would never have gotten those jobs in the first place.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        You think the people who make their money from boner pill ads are going to hire a guy that doesn’t believe in boner pill ads?

        glances at BlueChew

        glances at CumTown

        shrugs