Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days agoSo, the joke here is that you’ve got someone, presumably a Chinese official, saying a reality about America in a startling way that sounds like completely cooked up propaganda but isn’t.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 days ago
It would still be propaganda. Propaganda doesn’t have to be false.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Right, yes, but the joke is that it’s said in such a way as to sound like an outright fabrication.