It does feel like that.

@memes

    • @snugglesthefalse
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      223 months ago

      Propaganda is propaganda regardless of whether it’s good, bad or understandable

        • @snugglesthefalse
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          13 months ago

          Did I say I disagreed with you about the capitalism part? Propaganda can be both true and positive you know. Any information that attempts to change someone’s political views is by definition propaganda.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      The mental cancer predates capitalism, and has also brutally manifested itself in parallel in socialist nations.

      Stalin, Mao, the Gang Of Four, Honecker, Hoxha, Kim Il-Sung, Ceauçescu, Pol Pot… the list is dismayingly long; so many tyrants as fucked up as anything one could come up with in capitalist nations, and even more. They tapped into the bloodlust of the oppressed, to build a new apparatus of oppression, their generals covered in a hundred solemn yet worthless medals, those bastards sure loved the status and pomp, displays and parades.

      These nations build walls not so much to keep a potential enemy out, but to keep their own people in. That should tell you enough you need to know about how life was in those places.