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It was scary when Russiagate first started and liberals began turning into cold war zombies. You could just tell the brainwashing was going to be used to get them to consent to ugly, dangerous things. The brainwashing about China is even scarier, and it's just getting started.
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If your government is showing a clear interest in the outcome of a foreign war, and your first response isn't to do some rigorous and intellectually honest investigation as to whether your government played a role in starting that war, then there's something wrong with your mind.
If this is you, don't feel bad: there's something wrong with most people's minds. What's wrong with most people's minds is that the powerful pour a vast amount of energy into manipulating them toward their advantage. This has been known about and studied for a long time.
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There really is a widespread, mainstream belief that it is the job of the news media and watchdog organizations to help Ukraine win a propaganda war against Russia:
Do people really not understand that wanting the media and watchdog organizations to tell the truth and wanting them to help Ukraine win an information war are two mutually exclusive concepts? You cannot have both. You either want to be lied to or you want to be told the truth.
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Americans are the most propagandized population on earth, and US military personnel are the most propagandized Americans.
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Liberals spent the entire Trump administration yelling about the looming threat of fascism only to wind up cheerleading for the f*cking Espionage Act.
Rand Paul is now calling to repeal the Espionage Act after the world learned Donald Trump is under investigation for violating it.
When I am elected to the Senate, you will never have to question my loyalty to our country.
"- Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) August 14, 2022
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