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If you want to help the western empire administer war propaganda, one of the best ways to do this is to pretend the violence of empire-targeted governments happens in a vacuum, completely divorced from western imperial agendas.

Pretend the protesters killed in Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with the known US-Israeli agendas to foment violence in that country and arm insurgent factions in order to topple Tehran.

Pretend the “authoritarian” measures we’ve seen in nations like North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela happened completely separately from the western empire’s efforts to infiltrate, subvert and take over those countries.

Frame the US and its allies as mere passive witnesses to these dynamics, and the occasional revelation of CIA ops and State Department shenanigans as mere unrelated coincidences.

Frame the use of force by empire-targeted governments as the reason for the empire’s efforts to topple them, rather than as the product of those efforts.

There is a reason why all the empire’s enemies are willing to exert force to remain in power, and it’s not because Washington is leading an alliance of virtuous democracy-loving angels in a fight against tyranny and oppression. It’s because the US-centralized empire is the most tyrannical power structure on earth, and the only ones able to resist its agendas of total planetary domination are the ones who are willing to use force to thwart its efforts.

The primary job of the empire apologist is to obfuscate this reality. If you want to help advance Pentagon propaganda and grease the wheels of the imperial psyop machine, that’s where you focus your efforts.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

thing is that americans are doing this unwittingly so it's not that you have to try to be propagandist; you only have to have mass market appeal and your indoctrination will inherently do the propaganda for you.

[–] whalesmoker@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

The funniest moment was when the UK government was gas lighting China about facial recognition. Years later it comes into force. Any socialist country that seeks to preserve its existence from imperialist subversion is suddenly decontextualised.

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Same pretend scheme as with Capitalism, the belief system wanted and paid for by the Epstein class. Just pretend that this Authoritarian/fascist hierarchical extortion system has nothing to do with all the problems in the world. Pretend that all problems come from the individual, 'lazy' people or those always troublesome 'wewil tyrants'. sigh..

When your fake free market belief-system is in a logical mess - again, pretend even harder !!

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And here I was hoping for someone to meme about starwars propaganda.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait till you find out what the Empire in Star Wars represents

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Hell yeah, Walter Masterson!

https://youtube.com/@waltermasterson

https://youtube.com/shorts/IaC3r4aQZ5E

Sorry for the shorts link, I don't know how to unshort it

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Well yeah, but those guys at least had laserguns and death stars.