why would you think a video of your best friend abusing a bunch of animals is real?
Why is a difference you can’t notice important to you?


Das Kapital in the original German


That looked ok and I was nodding along until I got to the part where it’ll be governed by Blair and Trump.


why the lying war criminal Blair?
because he has a sterling track record of fixing Middle Eastern countries, of course!


Yeah, kinda one of the assumptions of my pet comm !noyank@lemmy.ml


I don’t think propaganda has a lot to do with intention


Most propaganda is like this: you’ve subconsciously absorbed it all your life and it comes out ur mouth. That’s how ideologies get perpetuated usually, rather than by cunning.


Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’
That’s incorrect. ‘Censorious’ means quick to censure
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorious


Any of them indexes would certainly have France higher than China


“freedom” is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric


Pretty common around the world IME
Just what I’m looking for!