I was talking to a colleague of mine, granted, he's an economics guy, but he seems really progressive and thoughtful. However, something about communism, and he went full on dummy brain.
Like, talking about the communist party of China, was uncritically saying the violence and body count speak for themselves, and how awful and repressive the authoritarian government is. I didn't push him on it, but I am sure he would uncritically recite us propaganda - after fully agreeing with me that the US media is the most successful propaganda machine in history.
Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised, but it is still insane to me.
There was an instance once where my cousin was freaking out about a defecting DPRK soldier who was found to have anthrax antibodies. He was sharing some FoxNews story with me that had the implication the DPRK was preparing a biological warfare attack. I told him soldiers getting anthrax vaccines was pretty normal for soldiers and in fact American military members also get it. So I tried leading him to the conclusion that the Koreans probably weren't planning an attack simply based on this one story, that FoxNews was wrong, ok? He then said "Maybe Fox is wrong about the facts, but their message is right."
absolute pure concentrated ideology brainworms