• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Garbage in, garbage out.

      We’ve got a mass media that exists to pump everyone’s brains full of Fear, Uncertainty, and Distraction.

      From local “If it bleeds, it leads” news coverage to shopping aisles full of celebrity gossip and fad diet magazines to damned near every radio channel in America being operated by two companies that are owned by white supremacist families… we’re all living in a soup of ignorance and hate. We have been since we were born.

      Is it any surprise more people are angry at Muslim migrants than local mega-churches? That foreign governments are more vilified than domestic lobbying firms? That the homosexual agenda is scarier than climate change?

      Whining about “the people” seems short-sighted when you’re living in the shadow of the Big Racist Propaganda Machine.

      • applemao@lemmy.world
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        The sad part is how many otherwise nice people it’s turned into total hateful monsters, and there’s no way they’ll be brought back. We will be a full on dictatorship soon and they don’t care as long as the gays and Trans are gone.