Every time I see westerns post some brainworms shit the usual response is “well propaganda is a hell of a drug”.

But if western propaganda is really that effective, how the fuck did we get here? I’d think if it was really this good at melting people’s brain’s it’d be effective enough to prevent communities like this from even existing. So like are we special or something?

Also raises the question, if we’re able to get over this BS, wtf is everyone else’s excuse for falling hook-line-and-sinker for it?

  • JuneFall [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That sounds as if you are reflected and aware how chance and structures play a role in the proletarians individual employment success. That is good, too.

    If I had just like, been born 20 years earlier and walked into a good job at 18 or 22 with no economic disasters happening, I could have easily thought it was just a natural result of being smart and moral, or something. That seems like the default position that got broken apart for a lot of people in 2008 and 2020-2023

    Word.

    and I see everybody who stayed completely fucked over as equally deserving than me

    Also true. Both can be true, that stuff was hard, that you had to endure and do a lot and still not being totally in control of what will happen.

    Your story is a good one, feel free to share how it is. Shared plight is one of the strong motivators of solidarity and socialism in my opinion.