I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol
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We're talking about a population where a proportion thinks Covid is a Chinese bioweapon that's also fake and is only like the flu btw or how Jesus rode on a dinosaur which is why we need to continue to send weapons to the Zionist entity in order to bring about the rapture.
Europeans buy into less straight up crank bullshit because they have a more cosmopolitan society that actually values a certain degree of social cohesion and don't have weird delusions of all being independent frontier petty tyrants who think you can live autonomously on 1/2 acre of land near a Costco, but they are still extremely propagandized western chauvinists in pretty much every other regard.
You are 100% correct, but your explanation is already moving away from "the US is part of the imperial core, so their population is more susceptible to propaganda." The crank shit has more to do with the US being a settler colony with a terrible education system, and I would go so far as to say that even if the US somehow becomes a semi-peripheral country, the crank shit and susceptibility to propaganda will still be there. If US workers earn as much as Guatemalan workers, the flat-earthers who think Jews conspire to hide the filament from God-fearing Christians won't just disappear.
I mean, this is basically what I meant by "frontier petty tyrants".
Well as someone who's sister married into a Guatemalan family, and has been down there twice, there are def already Central American flat earther who think Jews conspire to hide the firmament. So this checks out.