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ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Our government has invested a great deal of money into media designed to cultivate all or nothing, black and white, good vs evil thinking in us from a young age, and the media typically reports on foreign policy and designated enemies in ways that rely on this programming to build simplistic narratives of heroes and villains. We may be past the point where most Americans consider America the good guy, but most Americans still very much see other countries as the bad guys, which is easy because most of us don't have the money to travel to those places and meet the people there, so we just sort of subconsciously assume that they're not real people, not like us.

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