subversive_dev

Yes.

Socialception

When she stares in the camera without speaking like “you can’t believe this guy either, right?”

So…you are tacitly admitting that the “lesser of two evils” trick will always work on you?

explain how your political process can flourish

I don’t recall proposing a political process. I’ll engage with the strawman anyway. If I was president of this wretched hellscape, The bare minimum policies to start would be:

Electoral reform, labor reform, UBI, criminal justice reform, tax reform (wealth tax, inheritance tax, national property tax, tax on financial transactions), corporate death penalty, presumptive liability for corporate executives, bring the military and police to heel.

something wildly unlikely

Uhh, sure, it is going to be very difficult to change the power structures in the United States that are entrenched into every facet of life and constantly propagandized through the media. I guess we should just give up and spend all our time fellating the ruling class.

I can meet you there

Elections serve the function of capturing political energy and diverting it away from addressing any real issues. Has it escaped your notice that all candidates are completely subservient to the ruling class?

Every year the concentration of wealth grows. Every day, the USA continues to prop up a genocide. Every year true revolutionaries are quietly murdered, then memory-holed.

I’m personally not saying “don’t vote” - on balance, I think it’s worth exercising that minute degree of autonomy. What I am saying is: “Don’t expect voting to affect real change, when the rolling class has complete control over candidate selection”

I would like to flip this argument on its head. If the right wing is putting up a sufficiently fascist candidate, does that mean you will broker no criticism of the less right wing candidate? They can just keep playing that trick on you forever?

Perfect response.

I would just like to add:

I think what the USian liberals on here are missing is perspective. I think they have a worldview where the election is all that matters, so any whiff of dissent MUST mean the “tankies” are out to make the blue team lose.

Liberals, do you really think undecided voters in swing states are making voting decisions based on political threads on Lemmy?

If you truly want to understand instead of just downvote and run, try and mentally transpose this situation onto the British empire 100+ years ago. Sure, there are elections, but the grinding bloodthirsty machine of empire proceeds apace with no regard to the election before or after. Sure, one party is worse, that’s the literal manipulative trap of first past the post.

When we look at this world, there is one nation that has been terrorizing the world for over 70 years. Unless you are very naive, you shouldn’t expect compliant national media to give a balanced portrait of this history.

We’re not going to stop talking about the bloodshed and the empire and the propaganda until it has been burned to the ground. You can join the media and intelligence services, and do everything in your power to silence us - or you could consider that perhaps our positions are principled. Perhaps we once believed just like you did, so we see how close you are to piercing the veil of deception.

Or we are all literally paid shills and you don’t have to change any of your beliefs because the United States is a beacon of freedom and justice to the whole world…

Be careful, criticism is only allowed against Bad Countries, or else the Downvotes of Freedom will come for you

Only bad other countries have propaganda, this is a well known fact I learned from my noble national media

Lots of personal attacks coming from the libs ITT. Wonder why?

Is this the best the great champions of liberalism have to offer?

Inshallah

It’s much clearer when you don’t assume that there are any “good guys”

I tried homie. When you wonder why the world is so complicated and confusing and nothing makes sense remember this conversation.

Still so so close but not quite there…

Look up USAGM. Everybody has state-sponsored media, but one nation has a stable of outlets custom made for international propaganda.

How did the Spanish-American war start?

How did the Americans and the Soviets differ in their handling of Imperial Japan’s horrific Unit 731?

Who was the first state-sponsor of terror? (Look up Operation Mongoose and Operation Condor)

Almost there…

What is the largest, best funded, and most effective propaganda system in human history?

What nation uses its global media apparatus to whitewash centuries of unending war?

I think this has everything to do with the “Kenya-led intervention” US imperialists are trying to create in Hati

All the same great war crimes you know and love, now with half the calories!

You’re welcome!

So if you didn’t care about having to wait for the video to buffer on every scroll, it becomes an easier problem. I kind of think that defeats the purpose of a tiktok-style interface though.

I agree that you wouldn’t necessarily need to build a new algorithm, but like I said, it’s part of the smooth scrolling magic