Sure, propaganda works as long as it has some material basis behind it. Whose propaganda it is has no impact on that.

All effective propaganda is based on truth.

The way I see it, the brain is essentially a neural network that builds a model of the world through experience. It then uses this model to make predictions. Its primary function is to maintain homeostasis within the body, reacting to chemical signals like hunger, emotions, or pain. Our volition stems from the brain’s effort to achieve this balance, using its world model as the foundation for action.

bro forgot how to capitalism

Yup, and that’s the opposite of what the admin wants right now.

I mean it’s not like all these problems just magically appeared in the past few months. The proxy war Biden’s been running over the past three years certainly played a role here.

I mean… not false

The states is literally running a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine, but yeah we’ll just ignore that important context because it doesn’t fit with the narrative you’re peddling right?

It’s a really convenient narrative based on the fallacy of homogenizing Ukraine. Let’s take a look at a few slides from this lecture that Mearsheimer gave back in 2015 to get a bit of background on the subject. Mearsheimer is certainly not pro Russian in any sense, and a proponent of US global hegemony. First, here’s the demographic breakdown of Ukraine:

here’s how the election in 2004 went:

this is the 2010 election:

As we can clearly see from the voting patterns in both elections, the country is divided exactly across the current line of conflict. Furthermore, a survey conducted in 2015 further shows that there is a sharp division between people of eastern and western Ukraine on which economic bloc they would rather belong to:

Either you’re intentionally spreading misinformation here, or you’re far too ignorant to discuss the subject you’re attempting to debate here.

Why would you lie about something that’s well documented, this isn’t reddit.

Burgerland occupies Hawaii and part of Cuba just to name a couple of places, but sure it’s defending sovereignty of a nation where it overthrew the legitimate government in a violent coup. 🤡

the least propagnadized lemm.ee lib has logged on everybody

Absolutely no reason to expect that the US will survive as a country at this point.

Given that universities in US are effectively run as a business nowadays, the fact that they’re becoming insolvent should be more than mildly concerning.

That’s precisely what Bessent and Lutnick running around promising would happen.

The US military-industrial complex operates as a wealth transfer scheme, designed to funnel taxpayer money away from public needs and back into oligarchs’ pockets. This creates perverse incentives to develop overly complex, expensive weapons systems produced in small batches with lucrative maintenance contracts. The result is fragile equipment that’s costly to maintain which is precisely what you don’t want in actual warfare. Given that systemic pressures remain the same, I expect that the dynamic isn’t going to change either.

The irony is that this mirrors Nazi Germany’s WW2 mistakes. Their pride in advanced, precision weapons worked against smaller nations, but failed catastrophically against the Soviet Union’s strategy of mass-producing ‘good enough’ weapons at overwhelming scale. When quality met quantity in a war of attrition, quantity won decisively.

these are the minds of people running the US government

21T in 17 years does seem fantastical to me as well.

I think the scale of it is almost certainly bullshit, but given that we know there are billionaire bunkers, I can imagine that there would’ve been some program in a similar style for the political class.