Seriously, if you are AWARE of propaganda, you are also aware that you have been influenced by it. Propaganda is pervasive in civilizations. It is simply manipulation. TV ads and guys trying to pick up chicks are everyday uses of propaganda.
Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control …
They have been consolidating all control of the news AND more importantly, social media to blame the misery on various scapegoats caused by their ever increasing wealth disparity. The poor ignorant masses are bombarded relentlessly day in and day out with hate propaganda.
70 years ago a guy could graduate high school, get a job that allowed him to buy a car, buy a home and support a family, including college for his kids.
They were too busy living a decent life. Then Reagan and the Republicans came to power.
Now, thanks to the vast economic disparity, guys have a very bleak future that makes them easy targets for hate-blaming almost any group of people except the rich who are responsible for their miserable lives.
I plant potatoes and onions in the fall, along with garlic. They seem to do quit well.
Other than the Pacific northwest most U.S. forest trees do not make good building lumber.
I don’t miss the thousands of obnoxious, foul mouthed folks on FB that I routinely blocked. Haven’t experienced any of that on the fediverse yet.
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” - Carl Schurz:
It’s our civic duty to make our country better.
Some people may need to move because because they aren’t safe here right now.
Some people need to be removed, one way or another.
the DNC is the last place to find actual conservatives these days.
There is a good reason for this. Money to win elections comes from CONSERVATIVE corporations and populism isn’t on their wish list.
Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin
But wait, there’s more. Us taxpayer money will now be used to “invest” in these crypto scams.
Unfortunately we know that manipulation of elections, the MSM and social media trumps all the other solutions, as we have witnessed.
Silly, he get big balls to conjure up million dollar bitcoins from thin air to replace dollars. Plus they will all be purchased with low and middle income American taxpayers dollars.
Perhaps a better question is, “What are you doing to help?”.
Supporting a national strike, canceling Amazon, leaving FB, might be a good start. Contacting you representative who doesn’t represent you seems to be futile. Maybe flash protests?
Exactly! All a person has to do is to look around - the right buys up all popular media platforms and converts them to propaganda outlets.
Probably the oligarchs. They have been trying to install fascist dictatorships for a very long time.
Mostly sales and the self projection of being "cool.
Even Temu has tons of them.
The culture of incompetence, crime, failure, and collapse will become normalized? Not on my turf.
You are being way too optimistic. A lot of people will needlessly die, not only from violence but also disease, starvation, suicide and natural disasters.
A cashless society means your overlords will have COMPLETE control of your lives. Of course the oligarchs will have secret avenues of cash for themselves.