Yes, imperialist propaganda has become so absurd it's damned near impossible to do a proper satire on it. The ridicule writes itself. For Americans, the required doublethink is causing massive cognitive dissonance among both liberals and conservatives.
For liberals, who have been told for decades that it's bad for white people to colonize, displace, and eliminate brown people, it's the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign that they have to pretend to ignore or rationalize to be good Democrats.
For conservatives, it's an old-fashioned, individual liberty issue. The Republicans have been posturing as defenders of free speech against liberal cancel culture for YEARS, and now they want to censor or even prosecute anyone who questions a bunch of genocidal maniacs in Israel.
It's too much bullshit coming too fast. And the fools pushing it don't know what else to do besides doubling down.
It reached a high-water mark in the Ukraine war where the stupefied masses were told simultaneously that the Russians were inept idiots and being thrashed on the battlefield but would overrun Europe if X funding wasn’t immediately approved.
That's a big one for sure. How can the Russians be an existential threat if they're primitive, stupid subhumans? OTOH, if they are such a threat, they cannot be primitive or stupid.
As I've said before, US Empire propaganda has become so absurd on its face that it's difficult to do a good satire on it.
I’m amazed at how our fellow Americans are so easy to flip on their principles and attitudes about world events to near opposite views. I remember watching popular HBO series like GOT, that could get an audience to hate a character so much and perhaps in just 2-3 episodes, that same character was a good guy and loved. The whole thing seemed like some kind of mass experiment. Maybe it was? Maybe we’re seeing phase 2.
Yes, imperialist propaganda has become so absurd it's damned near impossible to do a proper satire on it. The ridicule writes itself. For Americans, the required doublethink is causing massive cognitive dissonance among both liberals and conservatives.
For liberals, who have been told for decades that it's bad for white people to colonize, displace, and eliminate brown people, it's the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign that they have to pretend to ignore or rationalize to be good Democrats.
For conservatives, it's an old-fashioned, individual liberty issue. The Republicans have been posturing as defenders of free speech against liberal cancel culture for YEARS, and now they want to censor or even prosecute anyone who questions a bunch of genocidal maniacs in Israel.
It's too much bullshit coming too fast. And the fools pushing it don't know what else to do besides doubling down.
It reached a high-water mark in the Ukraine war where the stupefied masses were told simultaneously that the Russians were inept idiots and being thrashed on the battlefield but would overrun Europe if X funding wasn’t immediately approved.
That's a big one for sure. How can the Russians be an existential threat if they're primitive, stupid subhumans? OTOH, if they are such a threat, they cannot be primitive or stupid.
As I've said before, US Empire propaganda has become so absurd on its face that it's difficult to do a good satire on it.
I’m amazed at how our fellow Americans are so easy to flip on their principles and attitudes about world events to near opposite views. I remember watching popular HBO series like GOT, that could get an audience to hate a character so much and perhaps in just 2-3 episodes, that same character was a good guy and loved. The whole thing seemed like some kind of mass experiment. Maybe it was? Maybe we’re seeing phase 2.