Capitalists will incorporate & commodify any^[1] trend/movement into their branding. 1971.

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Propaganda

It helps to check which mods are active, meaning which ones have recently made posts/comments. Otherwise your message may never be read.

I wouldn’t assume he’ll quit. He’s already got infinite money, and he and his tech multi-billionaire peers seem more interested in investing in political power nowadays.

Please don’t troll instances. Stirring inter-instance drama is corrosive to the threadiverse.

Money doesn’t always work. It usually does, but not always. Bloomberg, having made himself a symbol of corporate wealth, was a little too on the nose.

My first thought is that this may be for 1) political leverage and 2) propaganda. Leverage as a spoiler, to pressure/influence the other two parties in the election cycle. Propaganda is pretty self-explanatory, I think: getting into the news & podcaster cycles, throwing events, sending out mailers/flyers etc.

Some people (rich & poor) and interest groups/super PACs may fund it, so it won’t even have to be all his own money.

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A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

How do you not understand that most of us were raised under the same indoctrination and have experienced the same propaganda as everyone else here? We’re not the ones still propagandized by that upbringing, education, and media exposure. I suggest starting here to learn how to see past it.

I would ask them why they’re happy, not us.

The same Germany that is denying the genocide it is currently supporting and is suppressing anti-Zionist voices?

Some people seem to think LLMs are oracles of truth, so if you wanted to rewrite history, this is how you might try to go about it.

You do know what average means in this context, right? You divide the sum of the empires’ years by the number of empires.

Not really: The poorer you are, the less a person you are, which is why Enron Muck is the greatest person in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_dichotomy

Just vote blue no matter who^[1].

So if anything should happen, know that each incident was by a lone wolf and not a member of any fascist paramilitary organization.

I enjoyed A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail. They stopped producing new episodes, though.

Hopefully more people will realize that bourgeois democracy is working as intended, and that it cannot be reformed; it must be replaced.