Capitalists can just be like “dude look at this NPR article socialism is bad”

Meanwhile I have to have an extensive understanding of philosophy, history, science, economics and politics in order to justify my worldview.

Sometimes I forget that people don’t have comprehensive world views, and accidentally say something’s CIA propaganda, then have to go through that whole process of explaining how the CIA having fronts and interfering in global affairs isn’t a conspiracy, it’s just reality, and that finding sources about it isn’t the same as finding sources for an 8th grade book report, because it’s the goddamn CIA! Shits exhausting and sucks balls, I just want to be dumb I know I’m right bitch, get off my dick

  • Thatoldhorse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    A side effect of the US being so overwhelmingly evil is that when you say true shit that it has done, you sound like an unhinged conspiracy theorist.

    • Ketamine_device_tech [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      That's why you use the classic format of a joke to deliver the punchline "oh actually that wasn't the USSR imprisoning their population, that was Amerikkka"

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Even the well known stuff makes you sound unhinged.

      Like how do you explain that the CIA wanted to mind-control people while the FBI was infiltrating popular culture and political groups to make sure that it wasn't getting too communist?

    • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      The CIA once commissioned Bing Crosby to produce a porn film to discredit Sukarno. Mention that doozy next time you're at the bar.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      And even when people believe you, they just write it off because "ok the US has done some bad stuff but we've also done a lot of good stuff too so on the whole we're a good country".

      The guiding principle of foreign policy held by most Americans is that the US is a good country, thus whatever we do to another country is inherently good or at the very worst, well-intentioned with some "unfortunate" side effects...

      • Cromalin [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, every time I talk to my mom about this she's like "well you have to give the US credit for the good things it's done" and doesn't have an answer when I ask her what good things she's talking about

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          They only ever fall back on WWII, which a) the Soviets did WAY more than we did, b) the US very easily could have almost allied with Hitler against the USSR, and in fact almost did, and c) WWII was what allowed the US to become the dominant global empire, and some speculate that was the plan all along.