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[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

When you're a child a lot of the content you consume has morals, lessons embedded in them, either blatant or subtle. You realise that when you got older, the lessons never stopped, only became more subtle, and who decides what to tell the mass public but the state government and others who have been fooled into being loyal to a fault. (There are also completely innocent broadcasters out there, it's not all bad). A very subtle example is NCIS, made in the USA by a corporate entity independent of state funding, based on a real-life government organisation. They never show an Israeli as a bad person. Dislikeable, sure, but never the antagonist, never held accountable for murders on American land. This teaches that the Israeli government, and their Mossad, are faultlessly good in the fictional parallel world of NCIS, and the viewer attributes this to our reality's version of the same organisation. Subtle conditioning. Oh and in one scene, showing a distaste for Israeli delicacies is 'antisemitic' and not a subjective opinion.

This meme, as the creator pointed out, reinforces the idea that police are benevolent forces working for the good of the public. When abused, like they are now in (dare I say it) most countries of the world, the forces are only for the good of the bureaucrats and corporate aristocrats. The corruption level can often be determined by which demographics and state crimes get hunted disproportionately.

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