Here’s season 3 of Blowback, including the bonus episodes
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WSE-G3x7QBc9ZFmh20AFGn5Nq7oBsJYN
Enjoy, comrades, and remember: uncritical support to the DPRK in it’s heroic struggle to rid occupied Korea of the genocidal US Empire :kim-peace:
"official end to the Korean war" is delightfully ambiguous though :obama-drone:
The article makes it more clear
Notably, Americans appear to have warmed to the idea that the U.S. should formally end the Korean War by seeking a full peace agreement to replace the ceasefire accord that has largely held since 1953. Slightly more than half (52 percent) of respondents endorsed such a policy, an 11 point jump since 2021.
Seeing what Ukraine's turning into via another forever war, maybe.
I dunno, all I ever hear from anybody who isn't a hardcore communist about the Ukraine war is an inspiring tale of how the brave, noble Ukrainians are mowing down en masse the Russian hordes who are hell-bent on completely exterminating them.
DPRK: "I consent"
ROK: "I consent"
Pentagon: "Is there someone you forgot to ask?"
Literally could not matter less. Regular Americans have no say in how their “democracy” acts
And even if they do, they just need some military guy hold up a vial and bombs will be sent immediately
I think there's a big chunk of the foreign policy blob that hasn't really integrated this idea into their worldview and they might just push us over the edge while the PB and industrial bourgeoisie tear their hair out as the entire economy falls apart without Chinese production.
i can convince nearly anyone but the most voracious chuds i talk to for like 10 seconds that all this is propaganda and stupid. not sure if our discussion sticks later but hopefully it plants a seed that is stronger because it's placed by a real life interaction and not weird alienated media "discourse".
I've noticed a trend where I'll talk to an "apolitical" grillpilled boomer or whatever for a while about China or the DPRK or whatever and their conclusion will be "eh, makes sense I guess, but I just don't think the whole western world has been lying to me my whole life" then next week we'll drift into related topics and they hit me with my own commie talking points as if they thought it up themselves. I'm always just like ":confused-glee: you make a great point grillman I never thought about it that way"
This has happened to me like 4 times.
I have had success as well. Granted who you are talking to matters... but people now-a-days are cynical enough of the government and news cycles that just pointing out how every article is always slanted in a way to slight the traditional "enemies" of the United States is enough. Also point out how people depend on the news media for their only source for information on world affairs and how beneficial it is to capture that. From passive police voice articles to contradictory articles about China, its increasingly obvious there is heavy handed bias at work.
Don't say the word "propaganda" right way, or anything that makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist, but after you have laid the groundwork of them realizing it is propaganda you can call it as such. Speak to how important it is for a narrative to exist for the interest of others. From there you can tie it into a greater critique of capitalism. Basically, don't start at 100. Speak to them in a relatable sense first. However what I have found is people open up rather quickly after they make the initial connection, so you will find success sooner than expected.
Again, just appeal to their cynicism and skeptical instincts at first. A lot of times they know things are garbage, but not why.
Could this just be because Trump isn't in the White House right now? In my [extremely limited] experience, lib boomers will die before they admit that voting for the Democrats is useless at best and possibly even counterproductive. Conservative boomers might be easier to convince at the moment, at least on the surface.
Boomers are a demographic that are harder to impress upon. Many of them are still mentally in the 80's. I usually am speaking to people around my age or more open minded boomers. Lib boomers you will not make much headway with if you start talking about changing things. You can convince them to some degree that the system is broken, but not enough to fix it. I think time is better spent on people who are actually open to ideas.
There is a significant generational divide in how people are viewing politics, and they are seeing younger generations not trending towards conservative ideas because they are not being rewarded by them. Boomers are not going to be open to the idea that the news is mostly propaganda. They are still smugly satisfied with mortgaging your future for a quick buck.
I don't think it matters much that Trump isn't in office. I think material conditions are catching up to people feeling like they are not in control of their lives anymore.
Two-thirds of respondents agreed that the U.S. should “engage in dialogue as much as possible to reduce tensions” with China, while 20 percent said Washington should “not restart official dialogue and instead spend more money on military build-up.” Support for talks focused on** deescalation went up by five points since 2021, when Harris last asked the question.**
NPH Starship Troopers Meme "It's afraid!"
Everyone can be hawkish about anything. Until the draft paper shows up and everyone is mr poopoopants
Funny how the people who don't need to be shredded by an autocannon are the one who are most likely to tell the others to get shredded by an autocannon
That's not surprising. Our "policy elites" literally thirst for blood, especially Chinese and Korean. All but your most deranged of genocidal chuds are less hawkish than that
I saw in a poll recently that something like 20% of Americans think we aren't giving enough aid to Ukraine. It's not just the chuds who are genocidal.
If you poll the American public on almost any issue they disagree with their “elected representatives”
Headline makes me think of these older dudes in a little diner in rural nebraska talking about football for an hour straight, about halfway through one guy goes
"I wish North Korea would just nuke U Missouri already"
"Amen"
Lumpen form of :xi-plz:
Everybody, statistics is weird
To get a 2% margin of error and a 95% confidence interval on your study representing 300 million people, you need to only properly do random sampling of 2401 people
https://www.checkmarket.com/sample-size-calculator/
Yeah but your sample has to be actually random. Their methodology is "interviewed online in English" but then didn't explain how they found people online. Big red flag. And then they stratified the sample to align the demographics with the US population. IMO the data is trash and shouldn't be used for policy making.
Goddamn it’s so easy to make a poll that’s worthless and write breathless articles about its findings
2,063 adults
oh, so it's worthlessapparently this is a good sample size
khrushchev ->:corn-man-khrush: <- me
