Is it due to what we eat, our social media, the alphabet propaganda machine (most likely)?
Let us have a discusion on this if possible.
Man this place needs a no politics rule or something
Why do Americans keep falling for the Democrat and Republican scare mongering and propaganda?
Submitted 11 months ago by jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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SoNick@kbin.social 11 months ago
mohKohn@kbin.social 11 months ago
or at least no rhetorical questions looking for a circle -jerk
Neato@kbin.social 11 months ago
Report it. It isn't really a question. It's political posturing.
OsakaWilson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What is the Democratic scaremongering and propaganda?
catreadingabook@kbin.social 11 months ago
I feel like at this point, accurately reporting the state of the world counts as 'Democratic scaremongering.' Climate change is making the world less habitable. The coronavirus is capable of killing you. Some people will die as a direct result of the current forced-birth laws. It's possible to have a functioning society without racism and sexism. For some reason, these facts are all "political" and it's not the Democrats who are contesting them.
OsakaWilson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Scaremongering is by definition fabricating or playing up dangers. These are real.
MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you making a distinction between those who vote Democrat and the politicians in the party? I would say there is quite a difference there.
sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
to be fair, OP did say “Democrat and Republican scare mongering (etc)”
OP suggested “it” might be due to what we we eat. also OP explained NOTHING of what they meant.
OP is categorically a stain on all this.
OsakaWilson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For some reason, Republicans accuse their advisaries of the things they themselves are actually doing. My guess is that OP was Republican, has come to see that the Republicans are full of shit , bit still believes the lies they told about Democrats.
jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Mainstream media is generally propaganda, too, even lots of “left leaning” media.
For example, we don’t hear about the war crimes committed by Ukraine, only ones by Russia.
We don’t hear about how the US was actively working with right-wing groups in Ukraine to overthrow the government in 2014, efforts that helped further fracture relationship between Ukraine and Russia.
Or the military posturing by NATO in a geographically adjacent country to Russia.
War makes us forget nuance and accept simple absolute truths like Russia attacked Ukraine and therefore Ukraine must defend itself.
And for the record: fuck Russia for this ongoing conflict. They are the perpetrators, for sure. But all historical context to this conflict is completely thrown out in the eyes of the mainstream media.
Where are the anti-war democrats? Where are the people looking to end the war, rather than further fuel it with weapons? Nowhere to be found.
You know why? Because war makes too much money. Americans are paying to subsidize the cost of weapons to keep the war going. We the people are funding this.
We say “what are we supposed to do? Just let Russia invade Ukraine?” And then turn a blind eye to Palestinians occupied by Israel.
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
Where are the anti-war democrats?
Voting to send Ukraine all of the weapons and resources they can possibly use. That is the only legitimate anti-war stance. It's a remarkably black and white scenario where an authoritarian country invaded its democratic neighbor. Russia could end the war immediately simply by leaving. Ukraine, on the other hand, needs to actually win the war. Anything other than an absolute Ukrainian victory where Russia is forced out of all of Ukraine is a victory for war. The real-world anti-war position is that war must not be allowed to be an effective means of aggression. If war works, we get more war. When dictators learn that war doesn't work, we'll have less war. As long as Putin isn't willing to pull back his soldiers and abandon all claims to all Ukrainian land, the only other option is to defeat him in battle.
Anybody who opposes arming Ukraine is objectively pro-war because the only plausible outcome in that scenario is a Russian victory.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The two parties make sure that no third party can come up. This is a special flaw in the us american kind of (former) democracy.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Humans cannot resist the opportunity to feel like they belong to a group that looks down on others. So it doesnt really matter what the propaganda is, humans will always fall for it.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Sir, this is a Lemmy.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And it’s getting overrun recently with morons trying to pretend they don’t support conservative fascists while repeating their talking points and offering nothing but “both sides” BS and only criticizing the left wing.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Absolutely true. But I can only get so worked up about it, so I just make fun of them.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 11 months ago
Hello, Lemmy.
This is jimmydoreisalefty.
Nice to meet you!
irmoz@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Alphabet propaganda machine?
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 11 months ago
CIA, NSA, FBI, and so on…
irmoz@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Ah, I see. I misunderstood. “Alphabet mafia” is a common pejorative for the LGBTQ+
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
I figured it meant ABC, NBC, CNN...
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 11 months ago
This has been brought to you by your local 3rd party citizen.
I have no afflication with the links below. Just a keyboard warrior in my basement eating cheetos and drinking mountain dew.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
nah bro. just no. third parties only win in extraordinary, and terrible scenarios. it happens. what is it you want? an extraordinary and terrible situation?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d rather have viable potential for 5+ candidates running so that there’s more options than [the corporate sell outs] and [the regressive assholes that want to bring back slavery and institute puritanical christian theocracy while selling us off to the same corporations].
basically I’d like to have somebody that actually represents me.
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
That gives me an idea of making one of the most impractical domain/subdomain combos ever
MaShinKotoKai@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People should pay less attention to the opinions of the news and form their own. The news is more or less bought and paid for. They’re all owned by entertainment companies who sell us movies and TV for money. Pay enough money and tell them what to say and you have modern day news.
mister_monster@monero.town 11 months ago
Because their minds are immersed in noise.
CileTheSane@kbin.social 11 months ago
bOtH SiDeS!
niktemadur@kbin.social 11 months ago
aRe ThE sAmE!
Then every time Democrats try and pass something meaningful, but are blocked and sabotaged by republicans who have way too much power because of lazy idiots using "all or nothing purity" as an excuse to not vote, those same lazy idiots - who didn't bother to even do a cursory glance to see how Senators and Representatives voted on bills - go bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe again. And again. And again.