Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?
EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!
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New lefties should be able to recognize the sheer magnitude of the US's propaganda apparatus. It's unreal. New lefties should also be able to recognize the huge swaths of the people who hold beliefs counter to the neoliberal propaganda state, whether it's from the left or from the right. What might not be so obvious for new lefties is synthesizing those two pieces of information with the fact that people from the global south are the same exact people we are, just with a different language, culture, and amount of poverty. They're just as able to be critical of their government as we are, except relative to the US, they probably have even less propaganda.