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[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah so much western propaganda is essentially just accusing this or that country of being like the USA. I genuinely don't understand why it's so effective

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Because the other half of the propaganda is convincing people that the USA isn't like the USA. No idea how that one works so well either thought.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The same reason why slave-ocrats said that enslaved people liked to be enslaved, but were in constant fear of revolts. They live in fear of being treated like they've treated others.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And they've been taught that history is over, there's no alternative, which means other places must be exactly like the US. It's inconceivable that other places could be run differently even while those places are thought of as other.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's even worse, they automatically assume those places must be worse. So if US politicians are being unaccountable corrupted bureocrats, the others must be complete tyrants, if US police is murdering and brutalizing people left and right in the open without any repercussion, the others must be worse than gestapo, and so on and on.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds about right!

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It works because America's propaganda regime is so hegemonic and overwhelming that the vast majority of Americans assume everywhere else is just like america - All cops are violent, all soldiers are used for foreign wars of aggression, all politicians are corrupt and believe in nothing. The idea of a political leader who acts from firmly held convictions, wants to help people, and is uninterested in using their position for wealth and power simply isn't something that exists in the average American's conceptual framework of reality. They readily believe so much propaganda because in many ways the propaganda simply tells them that other places are just like the US they experience every day.