Brutkey

tef
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@misty@digipres.club years ago, decades even, i bumped into the "stuff white people like" post about how we love raising awareness and honestly i will never unsee it

there's this belief that with enough attention a problem gets solved, and that we as consumers set the narrative and the press reports on it

and well it's usually a cruel awakening when it's "wait why didn't they cover our protest" happens for the first time

i should stop before i turn into a chomsky parody

tef
@tef@mastodon.social

@misty@digipres.club aside, my "you are not immune to propaganda" moment, of many, was realising that in a "the purpose is what it does" way, the function of NASA was so that america could employ war criminals to build rockets to carry nuclear weapons, while putting a happy civilian smile on the end product

cf why the shuttle is like that, to steal satellites heh

the cognitive dissonance is akin to the NYT, which also hires war criminals, but to write propaganda, rather than engineering