• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    23 minutes ago

    Like which countries specifically? Bc I can almost guarantee there is currently a far right disinformation campaign targeted at undermining that country’s government.

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      12 minutes ago

      the disinformation campaign has been running since the mid 1930’s and it’s been taught in our schools and disseminated via legacy media since the 1940’s.

      a key feature of the campaign is to make americans predisposed to outright reject the alternatives that have already been proven to work in irl and all of those alternatives are aligned with what @[email protected] already told you.

      anything else is going to be a rinse and repeat of what we already have.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        5 minutes ago

        a key feature of the campaign is to make americans predisposed to outright reject the alternatives that have already been proven to work

        Not just with socialism. This was the response to the civil rights movement of the 60s/70s, to the environmentalism of the 80s/90s, and to the anti-war movement of the 00s/10s.

        Every progressive position is pillared as unworkable, overly expensive, and jobs-killing.

        Meanwhile, we sink $1T/year into chat bots that spam your Twitter feed with racist porn and armies of tweaked out sheriffs deputies to crash their cars into anyone they consider illegally brown

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      18 minutes ago

      Cuba, the PRC, Vietnam, Laos, etc. There are far-right disinformation campaigns from western countries trying to undermine them, but these countries have sovereignty over their media, industry, and infrastructure, and thus show no signs of collapse. If the US Empire was overthrown, there’s no chance the EU could meaningfully overturn that, they are far too weak at this point, and couldn’t even overturn the soviets when Europe was stronger and right next door.