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  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlComrades!
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    3 days ago

    It seems like the West – especially the united states – gets firehosed propaganda from everywhere constantly, but it’s divided into tiny and easy to miss pieces w each piece getting dispensed from CNN, fox, NPR, BBC, le monde, der Spiegel, etc or in movies and in pop culture.

    Outside the west, they have a dedicated propaganda channels that serve the same function that fox news does for americans so it’s easily disregarded.

    Also: Western media is spoonfed to foreign audiences partially for the same reasons americans want to access it; but primarily as a means to inject pro-western narratives through non-governmental agencies like the national endowment for democracy; radio free Asia; USAID; etc. Also, in many cases local media sources themselves are captured by various means and end up becoming pro-western propaganda peddlers themselves.

    a very recent and embarrassingly transparent example of this happened recently in Mexico, targeting President Sheinbaum. The tv station named “tv azteca” is owned by a trump ally and they coordinated efforts w the american non-governmental agencies in Mexico to start another “genz revolution” like the agencies did in Nepal a year before.

    Cases like Mexico prove that the us empire is in decline, but cases like Nepal or Ukraine prove that it’s still capable of doing a lot of damage on its way out.















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    9 days ago

    i want your news feed since mine only shows election wins for the us empire and the struggles of people fighting back easily disregarded.

    soberania & telesur currently dominate my feed, but given venezuela’s political trajectory, it makes sense to switch telesur to something else.




  • … I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh

    over 85% of native americans in the united states don’t spend any time on reservations (over 60% in canada) and it is a very white people expectation that they do.

    in most of the rest of the americas; the distinction between native americans and anyone is too fine to distinguish socially so they don’t bother for reasons other than socioeconomic indicators like americans and canadians do for other brown people.

    my dna puts me at a solidly 2/3rds native american, but that doesn’t qualify me under the american or canadian systems; familial relationships are the only things that matter to them; and i think it says something about their perspective that they would rather keep 85% of their own people out in the cold rather than give them access to tribal benefits.