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[–] inkblade@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

Western media propaganda is shit.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (33 children)

The fact that there are multiple people in here believing both because "they were 3 years apart," I don't know whether that's funny or sad.

I know I said gullible was written on the ceiling but that was a second before you looked up, now it's written on the floor. Nope, you missed it again, back to the ceiling.

This is where you really gotta turn to that redsails article to explain how these people's minds work:

In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits.

Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming. In this alternative account people aren’t “brainwashed” insofar as they don’t actually believe the lies, not in the way that we generally understand belief. It’s more correct to say that they go along with them

"But you don't understand, the news man said I have permission to use this to make fun of North Korea. Why are you spoilsports trying to take away my fun?"

Critical thinking doesn't enter into it at all.

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[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

LIBs: Two things can be true!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Liberals: two things can be true at the same time

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are they approaching Dialectical Materialism?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

i doubt that they ever will

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Def the second one for me if everyone had to do what I said I'd want them swagged tf out

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

The first one refers to men. It can be inferred that the second one refers to women.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I get this is in jest, but the articles are dated 2014 and 2017.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

Haircut policy went through a lot of changes in North Korea in that three years, clearly was a very pressing issue for the country.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

I think the joke is that there are stupid people who believe either are true

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

"One of us copied me."

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