They very explicitly and purposefully do not. This is a cornerstone of American domestic power. You cloud the news media with “Crime Wave” hysterics and neoliberal economic truisms, then strategically squelch or discredit any opposition views, from Dan Rather to Steven Colbert.
This is in large part thanks to a massive consolidation of media ownership over the last forty years, particularly via capture by Big Tech parent companies.
As an American, they really don’t know. Its worse than that, they refuse to even look at any evidence of it happening, “its all fake news” they say. I recently got a few of them to finally see it and they instantly got depressed and went down deep and fast; “this is not what I voted for” they said. I’d argue that a lot of the people supporting this bullshit aren’t really bad people, they got conned by a brilliant coordinated effort of corporate propaganda and would be completely against it if they could ever open their eyes and pay attention.
Politics is not a team sport where you support some side for fun, sadly it has consequences. And I fear with the evolution of modern AI this type of propaganda efforts just got 100 times easier to do today, not only the news are telling us what to think in America, now the AI’s can easily sneakily slip in some agenda to pull us in whatever direction the corporation feels helps them.
I agree, republican propaganda is just insanely successful in that they have people believing that they’re the only source of truth and everyone else, even scientific papers, is biased, wrong, and “written by the enemy”
By the time a republican sees an actual accurate source, their news media has already prepared them with several excuses for why that isn’t actually something to be paid attention to.
Yep. The whole ‘they don’t know better’ is just a way for the other team* to imply they are smarter and the ones who know THE truth. While failing to see the reality right in front of them.
They know. The voted for it and are witnessing it quietly.
But don’t forget the files guys. Keep talking about the files instead.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
They very explicitly and purposefully do not. This is a cornerstone of American domestic power. You cloud the news media with “Crime Wave” hysterics and neoliberal economic truisms, then strategically squelch or discredit any opposition views, from Dan Rather to Steven Colbert.
This is in large part thanks to a massive consolidation of media ownership over the last forty years, particularly via capture by Big Tech parent companies.
If “they know”, who told them?
also animal ag is an atrocity you must never think about
You know who else says this? Every other American lmao
You’re a strong data point, I’ll concede that much.
As an American, they really don’t know. Its worse than that, they refuse to even look at any evidence of it happening, “its all fake news” they say. I recently got a few of them to finally see it and they instantly got depressed and went down deep and fast; “this is not what I voted for” they said. I’d argue that a lot of the people supporting this bullshit aren’t really bad people, they got conned by a brilliant coordinated effort of corporate propaganda and would be completely against it if they could ever open their eyes and pay attention.
Politics is not a team sport where you support some side for fun, sadly it has consequences. And I fear with the evolution of modern AI this type of propaganda efforts just got 100 times easier to do today, not only the news are telling us what to think in America, now the AI’s can easily sneakily slip in some agenda to pull us in whatever direction the corporation feels helps them.
I agree, republican propaganda is just insanely successful in that they have people believing that they’re the only source of truth and everyone else, even scientific papers, is biased, wrong, and “written by the enemy”
By the time a republican sees an actual accurate source, their news media has already prepared them with several excuses for why that isn’t actually something to be paid attention to.
They voted for hate, this is what they wanted.
Let them change their behavior, but don’t let them gaslight you, they wanted EXACTLY this.
Yep. The whole ‘they don’t know better’ is just a way for the other team* to imply they are smarter and the ones who know THE truth. While failing to see the reality right in front of them.
I always here “it’s/them/they/are woke!!!”. It’s lost all meaning and it’s just dumb brainwashed and it assholes don’t like something it’s woke.