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I’ll take it. Normal people are finally starting to overtake the idf influence operatives flooding world news
I think they massively overplayed their hand with the beheaded babies thing. Genocide Joe getting caught lying about it was devastating (btw no way that staffer who said he never saw the pics still has a job, right?). I think Blinken was sent out there to do damage control but by then the spell was broken.
Like, anyone who wants to believe the beheaded babies thing will continue to do so. But for everyone else, within the span of like 48 hours it went from being this thing everyone thought was true to a meme once they realized how absolutely silly the claim was (and that Biden straight up lied about it).
The White House retracted many bold statements from Biden like him recognizing Taiwan as a country before the White House reiterated that they recognize the PRC as the only China lol
there's no way that guy is actually presidenting
just like with trump i'm 100% sure he gives some terrible orders and people under him just decide to not obey, going "sure grandpa your order worked wonderfully, as you can see" and showing him fake graphs and shitty photoshops
Feinstein and Trump sort of gave us a peek behind the curtain there
The Deep State (that is, the underlying bureaucracy of the US government that persists regardless of who is elected) quite clearly runs the country. Every elected official is just putting on a show so that people think they have a say in what happens in their "democracy".
I could be wrong, but you might be confusing this with "strategic ambiguity" which afaik is keeping the PRC and ROC both guessing about how far the US will take its intervention. The "one china policy" wasn't ambiguous, it was a necessary step in order to create normal diplomatic relationships with the PRC. But once the US had normalized diplomatic relations with the PRC, it effectively said, "There is only one chain and the PRC is the legitimate government that we formally acknowledge." That is why all of these recent state visits between politicians in the US and Taiwan is so inflammatory. The US is only supposed to have "unofficial" ties to any other "government" that is supposed to represent China.
Then they will just up the propaganda game.
The more horrific shit they make up, the easier it is to sway to enlightened centrists
it's gotta be played carefully. if it comes out as obviously false too quickly, people learn to ignore the source. if they learn years later, they stay pliable to atrocity propaganda. the IDF got too brazen with it so once people cottoned on to it just days after, while the news was visceral and fresh, the whole news cycle flipped on them while they were in the early stages of a genocide.