I assumed it was just “hire more LGBTQIA+ prison guards!” so-true

It’s worse than that. What I’ve seen recently because of federation is “(verbal performative) support for disadvantaged people as long as they maintain a successful small business in a disadvantaged area for no less than three years and aren’t anywhere to the left of Bernie Sanders!”

maybe-later-honey 🍷 🍷 maybe-later-kiddo

  • MCU_H8ER2 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    For as much as we get called CPC bots, Putin puppets, etc., the liberals I’ve encountered on here and the 'grad are largely indistinguishable.

    It’s obvious they have been spoonfed their worldview by increasingly homogenous mainstream media. They seem to think platitudes and blanket statements should be accepted uncriticalally. They provide no sources or information for their worldview, they just dismiss ours.

    I think this problem (in the USA at least) goes deeper than shitty media coverage. The USA has such an anti-intellectual culture. People seem to be unaware of why they even think things.

    I used to be guilty of this myself. I remember one of the first doninos for me was when I realized I had no idea why I thought Cuba was an evil place. Then I did some reading and realized I had been lied to.

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      In my experience, no adult is more vulnerable to propaganda than one that believes they are immune to propaganda, and the United States is loaded with people that believe that while wallowing in unexamined ideology they absorb uncritically.