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Fellow American Comrades, how were you able to overcome the liberal propaganda? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by materialanalysis1938@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I grew up in a conservative American family and was indoctrinated with chauvinistic beliefs from the beginning. It took me years of studying political science and economics just to warm up to leftist ideas, let alone embrace them.

Finally, I decided to read “Dialectical and Historical Materialism” by Stalin off a recommendation from one of my professors and it really changed my entire interpretation of the world. That started me down a path of reading any Marxist literature I could find.

I’m curious about the path that the rest of you took to get here!

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[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 days ago

Being Palestinian, growing up on the receiving end of Islamophobia post-9/11.

I always had "progressive" stances but fell into the pro-ukkkraine. Russia bad mentality. I never really cared for China at that point other than "police state! Whinnie the Pooh!" I never really understood the fearmongering of TikTok harvesting our data, why should I care more about a country across the world accessing the same data US has been harvesting?

It wasn't until post-October 7th when my eyes were fully open. The rampant disinformation by all these western media outlets, even from the "progressive" ones like CNN.

I always knew Amerikkka was a terrible country, but they're good at whitewashing their actions after it's too late to do anything about it. This country committed genocide against the indigenous population. Of course they'll shed fake tears about their previous actions while stifling all reporting of current atrocities being committed against the indigenous peoples (all the land grabs, water rights being stolen, crimes against them being unsolved due to not allocating federal resources, etc.)

They're still gonna apologize years later, and pretend they didn't know how terrible things were at the time. The same playbook is seen with movies and public perception alike. From "Killers of the Flower Moon" being a box-office hit while the media is silencing all current indigenous affairs, to the public perception of the invasion of Iraq being a "bad call" after a million people were murdered. They even have the gall to release movies about how soldiers feel bad for killing children (American Sniper).

When isntreal falls, they'll try to whitewash that as well, saying they were lied to about who they were targeting, or that they truly thought there were command centers under Gaza's hospitals. They know it isn't true, western media knew it wasn't true, but they still peddled the lie until they got what they wanted out of it.

The Amerikkkan public will all pretend like they were against it, even though they only were once the tides were already shifted.

Went on a long rant, but western governments are REALLY good at maintaining plausible deniability, which allows them to garner public support for the next atrocity that will be committed.