“Unscratched” liberals have much more in common with fascists than socialists.

• Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
• Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

We’re not indoctrinated with this theory for no reason. Anti-communist propaganda serves bourgeois interests.

‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common

This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve even considered an invasion to be in any way beneficial

Liberals oppose every war but the current one.

But the Iranians around me are telling me

They’re expats or n generations removed. They’re not in Iran, don’t know what’s really going on there and don’t speak for those who are and do.

Please tell me what you think the international community should be doing?

The international community:

After Russia it’s already the most sanctioned country in the world, and those sanctions have contributed to the discontent that fuels these protests.

Correct, and that’s exactly why the “international community” shouldn’t be imposing illegal sanctions in the first place. They’re not imposing collective punishment on the Iranian people out of the goodness of their hearts. They care about Iranians exactly as much as they care about Palestinians, namely: not a rat’s ass. Despite the bleeding heart rhetoric, the sanctions are for furthering imperialist interests, predominantly those of the US and Israel. They want regime change that vassalizes Iran.

Jeffrey Sachs: Engineering Iran’s Unrest

It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.

You’re not listening to the people. You’re listening to comprador plants.

• Accented Proxies: Imperialist Weaponisation Of Diaspora Voices
• Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of ‘Agency’ Discourse and How Media Chooses Which ‘Voices’ To Center
• The blueprint of regime change operations — How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
• “Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??”

You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran

You misspelled “astroturf.”

That’s the same reason. The “pro-monarchy insurrection” isn’t organic. It’s another facet of the imperialist hybrid war to vassalize Iran.

What’s ridiculous is that it isn’t even a socialist government. It’s a social democratic government, in other words a capitalist government with a (deteriorating) social safety net.

“War crimes on brown people are just a distraction from rape crimes on white people.”

3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts

We already went over this garbage study with your @Scotty@scribe.disroot.org account^[1] and @Sepia@mander.xyz account^[2] two days ago and your @Sepia@mander.xyz account two months ago^[3].

You’re like a broken record, bot.

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Ultimately the problem is that the mods for the communities they frequently post to have allowed this to go on for years. They have to know by now what’s going on, and by doing nothing they tacitly endorse it.

For a hot minute that ICE agent was a US “illegal” in Ecuadorian territory.

It’s widely-know.

So which instance is politically neutral

There is no such thing as “politically neutral.” What you perceive as neutral is that which is hegemonic.

Anything even remotely pertaining to China is flooded with the Chinese state actors reply guys and bots.

What’s rampant is imperial core propaganda. You see the “Chinese propaganda” as “rampant” because you’re used to seeing only imperial core propaganda, which is how the internet looks on corporate media, including corporate social media.

Previously:

The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’. This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Powell Memorandum
• The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

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* I’ve criticized MBFC & Ad Fontes before:

• https://lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172
• https://lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612