Calling it welfare would turn a whole bunch of people against it. Call it social safety net, or health care, or unemployment insurance, or poverty assistance… just a suggestion if you support the programs… the corporate politicians and racists have turned welfare into a bad word…. Entitlements is also seen as a bad word until people realize that means Medicare and social security.

I do understand that all of this actually is welfare… it’s just that the propaganda machine, I mean corporate media, have turned it into a bad word…

Words really do affect people emotionally, words are important…

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago

I wholly agree, but most people don't know how to find indie media unowned by very wealthy ~~fascists~~ liberals. Even the "progressives" on Lemmy refuse to read anything published outside the global West or Western-aligning, or if they do, dismiss it as tankie propaganda, and maybe plenty of it is. Look how long it took to convince Lemmy there's an actual genocide in Gaza, and they're still fiercely defending the iron dome.

It defies comprehension how people can't think, "the media lied to me about Palestine, we saw the Panama Papers, Snowden (but he moved to Russia, propaganda!), Manning, Assange, so many more! and refuse to consider they're lying or seriously distorting everything else.