That reminds me

If China or more especially DPRK didn’t do that certain atrocity, they would then say something along the lines of “but their country is so wacky and insane that the story would’ve made sense anyway”

Insert Masses Elites and Rebels quote

Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0fjwcjy#%3A~%3Atext=Laos%2C+today+a+country+of%2Creality+for+communities+across+Laos.

Isn’t that the country the Americans bombed the most?

Lemmy.eco.br prolly

Screw President Bukake

Is this satire?

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Chynese Communist Party of the United States?”

Looks like we’re having the 3rd Red Scare.

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Chynese Communist Party of the United States?”