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I think about shit like this every time they want to increase police budgets under the guise of “public safety”
Man no other outlet was willing to take his story? Geez lol
Cracked.com was a pretty major part of the CIA's attempt to control internet narratives, they released a lot of listicles written by guys like Robert Evans or basically just regurgitating US state policy on other nations. (Pretty sure they had multiple "top 10 wacky things North Koreans are forced to do" articles)
Interesting. Now recent events with a podcast I listen to make more sense. The hosts of Quorators were fired from Cracked recently because they supported Palestine and condemned Israel (off the air, on their personal accounts). Also one of them clogged the Cracked office toilet lol
immediately yeeted into the lore file
This is most U.S. news outlets. Anything more concrete on a government connection?
For an "apolitical" "humour" magazine they sure were big fans of pushing a ton of very explicitly political articles to the forefront. My main suspicion is how Robert Evans wrote for them a lot, he's got known connections to the CIA and positions himself as a "leftist journalist" but always seems to defend the US state department line. Not sure why a humour website would post a bunch of articles promoting him. Though it doesn't need to be a direct government connection though, it could just be the owners of the site liking his content. They have shared unabashedly pro-US propaganda quite a bit though, but as you say, this could just be fairly bog standard USians being in so deep they don't even know how biased their view is.
Yes their "wacky USSR stories" or "wacky nuclear stories" are all I remembered. The jokes did not last.
Oh, I think I remember that video on that shit..., take a look for yourself
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: