It is so effective at whipping people into a frenzy. I saw a chart which showed how 5-6 years ago, most Americans had a positive/neutral opinion on China but now it’s 80%+ negative.
Look at the wars. Whenever the US is engaging in one, any dissenting opinion is so ruthlessly crushed. But after it, people act as if nothing happened at all. Just compare how Americans talk about the Iraq war today compared to when it occurred. Same with Afghanistan.
And I bet the same will happen with Ukraine. Right now, anything less than full support, with the goal of sending as much military supplies as needed is considered treasonous. But I know there will be a time when even libs will be act as if this war was just a tragedy etc.
It’s like the propaganda machine lives at a low level most of the time, and allows dissent, but when it needs to ramp up, it is able to do so extremely quickly and extremely well. And then it moves on to the next thing.
I fear that maybe “anti-capitalist ideologies” will follow the same path here. Right now, we’re just facing off the low level machine at the background because we aren’t a big threat. But the moment we become, or even threaten it, it’ll be a modern McCarthyism.
It’s scary to think about.
Was just reading a World News thread, multiple positive up votes comments like "kill all Russians" "kill anyone supporting the war which is 80% of Russians" "savages shouldn't be allowed in the UN."
Liberals have become incredibly bloodthirsty and are using some honestly genocidal language at this point.
the libs have been scratched
the magical thing was how they became like this the day the war started. like a switch was flipped.
now they're even forgetting basic facts they used to know about russia... even basic demographics facts that can be looked up on wikipedia.
would have been a real shame if every american who supported invading iraq in 2003 had been killed
Yeah, in spite of having casualty rates somewhere between 1-2 magnitudes higher, Iraq was just a little mistake and the war in Ukraine is the crime of the century.
73%.
deleted by creator