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    4 hours ago

    Anything involving Taylor Sheridan makes USSR propaganda look tame.

    In some show about Cowboys or Special Ops people, there are these moments inserted where one of the main characters turns to the token soft-hearted libtard from a big city, and explains how the world really works. How you can’t trust the media, how windmills and solar energy doesn’t work, how communists are infesting universities. The poor libtard thinks they have “facts” and “information” on their side, but the rugged individualist schools them on the “Way Things Really Are”.

    There has always been propaganda, but mostly it’s stuff like Top Gun. A movie is made where the heroes are Navy fighter pilots, and we see how they live cool lives, and have adventures, and end up protecting us from the arab bad guys.

    Taylor Sheridan’s stuff is unique in how blatant the propaganda is. There’s a scene in Landman that’s especially famous for this, and of course the clip on YouTube is full of morons agreeing with it, or talking about Joe Rogan. But, it was also so blatant that there are dozens of articles and videos debunking it.

    It’s hard to fact check Top Gun. Yes, such a school exists, yes fighter pilots get goofy nicknames (but not cool ones like Maverick or Ice Man unless it’s actually a super embarrassing story). But, they’re not generally making factual claims in those movies. But, these Taylor Sheridan shows, while they’re absolutely filled with that kind of generic “rah rah USA, individualism, roll coal, blah blah” bullshit, they also have these scenes that might as well be introduced with a trumpet and someone saying “and now, for the propaganda moment!”

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      Right? At least back in the day we got like cool video games like America’s Army and 24 hour Walmarts and the dollar menu to convince us capitalism and the military was cool as fuck. What do even have now? Shitty AI generated sounding country music and lame ass square dancing? Cmon man.

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    I always find it really funny when they don’t even bother with arguments anymore. They just present left policies as is, but say it in a way that shows they think that it’s obvious why these are bad. Like they shouldn’t even have to explain themselves.

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    Bernie Sanders is going to take control of all the toothbrush factories. You will be assigned a toothbrush bristle hardness designated by your socialist dentist. If you drive a lifted truck you will be assigned to work in a gay cake factory that only bakes cakes for gay weddings.

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      As long as it comes with decent health insurance and dental I don’t give a shit anymore. I’ll make those cakes so fucking gay I don’t even care.

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    At least in Germany, MSM have definitely been moving in direction of the far right after the last federal elections a year ago when the fascists became the strongest party.
    Very recently, when the socialists won Berlin - Germany’s capital and largest city - they were immediately smeared as “anti-semitic” (of course) and “having connections to criminal gangs” by some parts of the MSM which I thought had resisted this trend. I quit their shit on the spot.

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    And shit like Ancient Aliens is just straight up psyops and ofcourse all the bread and circuses sports events. Seriously people in my country get more riled up about football than the shit politicians do.

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      9 hours ago

      Brown people can move rocks, you guys! Aliens didnt put things up your dads butt, he just got a little adventurous and is closeted.

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    My guess is that back in the day TV was one of the main source of entertainment, so you had a lot of eyes on it, nowadays only dead brain people watch it so they can go all out between propaganda and drama, also it’s probably easier for some stuff to get lost as it’s mostly bullshit and almost no one gonna save it.

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      That Landman show, the one where Billy Bob Thorton literally tilts at windmills, and goes off on this whole speech filled with falsehoods, had oil companies in the credits.

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      Or just mis/underinformed. You can’t know what you haven’t learned yet and not all people have easy access to reliable sources of information.

      That’s how it got so bad before the majority of the population noticed it. And also how it continues to be allowed to persist.