afronaut

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[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You’re making the assumption that these protests don’t have designated people to cover and publicize their actions. We already know Meta and Twitter have been literally suppressing and shadow banning leftist associated tags and keywords on their platforms.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Not a conspiracy when Trump literally says Elon helped secure states like Pennsylvania.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

J6 was an astroturfed operation by the current dictator in charge. We currently have several grassroots protests around the country being suppressed, and have a long history of protesting and rioting for civil rights in this country.

You clearly get your news from corporate media or else you’d be aware of this.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Getting sick of Europeans falling for the blatant suppression and propaganda that our corporate-elite overlords are spoon-feeding them and using that to act superior.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, who are “these guys” you’re referring to?

I hope it’s not the 380 million Americans who absolutely did not elect the white foreign colonizer to gut our economy.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Historically, that is how elites have always maintained their power, so yes. It’s just a lot more difficult to 1) mobilize an overworked and comfort-seeking populace, and 2) we are more interconnected than ever before.

The power of propaganda is being seized by the people. We create the content. We cover current and localized events (in actual real time) because it’s our actual communities. We know who is who and what is what.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

I think it goes Luigi > Tesla Removal > and some time down the road, we’ll be in what would later be historically considered a revolution— what’s crazy is with how interconnected we are today, it could be a global revolution of some kind.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Yea, colonialism/imperialism share a lot of characteristics with parasites.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago

They employ people for that very reason. It’s called Public Relations. When they hear something that sounds villainous, their job is to sanitize the message before it’s sent out to the public.

But, that’s only during a neoliberal zeitgeist where companies implement half-assed programs like DEI, pink and rainbow washing advertising, etc. because it’s the mainstream. As soon as Trump took office, they shifted their strategy, which includes their public relations. They ditched the flowery language and diversity campaigns because they don’t feel they need to appeal to the consumer anymore. We are a captive consumer now.

Except for Target. They FAFO.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Precisely. Makes you wonder what sociopolitical shit some amoeba are dealing with at the moment lol

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Some higher being observing Earth from a far distance must be intrigued by the pattern recognition of us destroying one specific car while completely ignoring the thousands of others.

Like, imagine when we look at single-cell organisms and see them swarm something. We’d never apply any kind of nuanced interpersonal/sociopolitical reasons to be the cause.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

I did see that. I will say, as a history buff, what I find both fascinating and terrifying is that we are at a point in history where we, the people, are able to see so much current events in actual real time.

No more waiting for the newspaper or the pre-recorded news. The immediacy of media today has kind of forced a level of transparency we haven’t see before when considering events like the rise of a Hitler-type, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, police brutality, protests, riots, genocides, wars, etc.

These kinds of political acts we’re witnessing today were always happening, right? Just completely hidden from public view and delayed by days or weeks even if it is revealed to them. This hasn’t entirely changed either. I remember hearing about an Iraq War vet who came back to the States and saw a “breaking news” report about an operation happening “now”; except he was part of that operation that happened a year prior.

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