Death to America
Depending on what exactly your conception of the self is, this ranges from allegorically correct to literally correct
Yeah, that's the metaphor I'd use. Littering the sides of highways and buildings, littering the airwaves and livestreams, littering thought itself.
If it didn't work we wouldn't have them and companies wouldn't spend so much on them.
The way westoids associate the AES countries with the concept of propaganda is certainly a case of every accusation being a confession. While countries like East Germany certainly had their government messaging in public spaces it was nothing compared to the avalanche of advertising you were and are subjected to in the west. The soviets may have had their flaws but at least they didn't force you to look at a picture of Stalin while taking a dump.