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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFug it, you deserve your subjugation
You've been letting the ptb systematically dim your lights since 9/11. At this point it looks like you'll gladly surrender your rights and dignity if they tell you it's in your interest. But RAWR Greenwald! RAWR Snowden!... RAWRRRRR!
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)Look at the rec counts.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)It's too bad this otherwise exellent board can be swarmed and dominated by a handfull of operatives and trolls.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The most relentless voices are small in number. But they are working.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)the propaganda machine, like the government's spying infrastructure, is reaching a level of depth, interactivity, and microscopic invasiveness consistent with the deep pockets of the corporatists and the authoritarian state. We live in a creepy new reality in which Americans who believe they are merely having political conversations on the internet meet immediate, relentless, swarming, and manipulative pushback to any criticism they might level at the Powers That Be.
There is an entire machine in place to manufacture the illusion that Americans welcome what is being done to us and have contempt for those who would disrupt it.
It is creepy as hell, and, when combined with awareness of the metastasizing spying and police state infrastructure, truly chilling.
markpkessinger
(8,517 posts)librechik
(30,776 posts)however morbid.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)that they will be the exception.