The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Powell Memorandum
• The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

* I’ve criticized MBFC & Ad Fontes before:

• https://lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172
• https://lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612

Navalny was seen as a hero by US liberals, because that’s how the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Endowment for Democracy wanted them to see him, so that’s how US corporate media portrayed him.

• 2007: Video: Alexei Navalny Compares Muslims to Cockroaches
• BBC, 2021: Amnesty [International] strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status
• Workers World, 2024: Who was Alexei Navalny? A violent white supremacist and fascist on U.S. payroll

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Democrat/Liberal candidate’s slogan was “they go low, we go high.”

The thing is, this is largely kayfabe. The Democrats aren’t that dumb: they lose on purpose. It’s a big good cop, bad cop club, and you ain’t in it. Recent blatant examples under the Biden administration:

• 2021: Senate Can’t Vote On $15 Minimum Wage, Parliamentarian Rules
• 2022: Rail Workers Betrayed By Biden & The “Squad”

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The Democratic Party’s deceitful game They are willing to bravely support any progressive bill as long as there’s no chance it can pass

The primary tactic in this game is Villain Rotation. They always have a handful of Democratic Senators announce that they will be the ones to deviate this time from the ostensible party position and impede success, but the designated Villain constantly shifts, so the Party itself can claim it supports these measures while an always-changing handful of their members invariably prevent it.

You strike me as someone who would have written a hit piece on Marx for profiting from British imperialism and his capitalist buddy Engels

I don’t why you’d have that impression, but you guessed wrong.

Can someone be a landlord and a communist at the same time?

<davel> It’s a red flag. At the highest level this boils down to whether that someone is consistently a traitor to their class.

In my estimation Engels was consistent.

his drinking habits to make clear that he is an immature mind

How are you deciding I would think anything like that from what little you know about me? Very strange assumptions.

Okay, Holden Caulfield, best of luck with your own personal, non-phony, left-libertarian revolution.

Others have already given adequate answers, but another angle from which to view the US is as the very core of the imperial core. You can’t maintain that level of global imperialism and a kayfabe democracy at the same time without massive amounts of propaganda and the suppression of any effective left-wing organizing. The most impressive part is that most USians don’t think they’re even being propagandized.

• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
• Shock therapy (economics)
• World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country
• Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.
• Are We The Baddies?
• Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich

We apparently read different articles. I bet you didn’t even read it.

invests no proper effort to do what actual communists like Marx and Lenin did

😂

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Rockhill
• https://gabrielrockhill.com/
• https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/about-2/

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No one knows the compatible left better than Rockhill, because he did his graduate work under some of them, namely Derrida & Badiou.

• Foucault: The Faux Radical
• The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism
• The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback
• Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

This sounds like some Žižekian nonsense. Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

Is this a joke? The only reason the “free market” pretended to align with DEI in the first place was for regulations and public relations purposes. The capitalist class has never and will never give a fuck about DEI. You know that HR departments are not our friends, right? Their job is to execute the will of the capitalist class upon the working class.

• AP, Jan. 2024: As diversity, equity and inclusion comes under legal attack, companies quietly alter their programs
• Bloomberg, Feb. 2024: Why Companies Are Scaling Back DEI in America
• Morningstar, Mar. 2024: Companies are pulling back on DEI. What will be lost in the process?

Not a problem: the federal government, the banks, the mortgage brokers, and corporate media will just redefine affordable in order to juke the numbers. Say 35% instead of 28%.

Why am I not surprised to find post-coup leader having links to the NED? Aung San Suu Kyi to address NED 2012 Democracy Award in U.S. Capitol

A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA. — NED cofounder Allen Weinstein, 1991

I see, you wore out your welcome with your previous account 😂 https://lemmy.ml/modlog?userId=1264834

I wonder why you keep catching bans.

“As Ukraine’s struggle against Russia and its proxies continues,”

Some Reuters reporter’s interpretation of the war proves nothing.

Why is it whenever you tankie clowns post this crap it’s always rags like truthout.org and never wikipedia??

Also, the majority of news articles I posted in my “gish gallop” is from a mainstream corporate outlet, so you’ve clowned yourself.

She’s a font of vicarious embarrassment. Philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller makes a case study of one of her performances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu1lnTQM0Gw&t=269s

He has a whole video on what cringe is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVy7LL7hvbk

peaceful people’s revolution to take back control

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• Truthout, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev

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Fascist Russia

Oh, so it’s Russia that has a fascism problem?

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• AP, 2014: Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences

• History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I: The Origins of the OUN 1917-1941
• History of Fascism in Ukraine Part II: The OUN during World War 2, 1941-1945
• History of Fascism in Ukraine Part III: 1944-1963 UPA War, Ratlines, and the Assassination of Stepan Bandera
• History of Fascism in Ukraine Part IV: The Global OUN Network in Exile, 1962-1992
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

I still wonder how Brautigam & Rithmire managed to slip that one into the neoliberal Atlantic; it seems they’ve never been invited back.

You’re assuming that the 20 minute video isn’t already a short summary of something larger. You can only summarize something so much before reducing it to uselessness.

Windows is always going to be proprietary software, so I’m never going to give it the time of day.
Next question.

Uh, China doesn’t forgive the loans, they seize the assets, that’s the whole point of debt colonialism.

Show me these supposed seizures; you’re talking out your ass. Imperial core corporate media are projecting their own states’ neocolonialism onto China, and you’re accepting their propaganda like a good Council on Foreign Relations consumer.