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This feels like an masterfully written propaganda statement to me, made to sneak in a lot of hidden / unjustified assumptions and stir up feelings. - As a fore
by Faark 7y ago
This feels like an masterfully written propaganda statement to me, made to sneak in a lot of hidden / unjustified assumptions and stir up feelings.
- As a foreigner, I'm amazed by how little weight Americans seem to put on international competitiveness will certainly rile up a lot of readers. Those who don't like the plan and thus disagree with it being equated as "American" just like that who don't think it will ruin everything.
- The second sentence overtly states "US competitiveness == Big companies (and nothing else)" while painting the politicians as intensionally harmful
- The last one again presupposes the plan to fail, and now also for it to necessarily crush the "post-breakup pieces".
- There also seems to be a general sentiment that non-american must be bad for America.
And this are just the ones I spotted. The post doesn't justify any of those. In a verbal conversation, this would certainly harmful to the exchange of ideas and likely be used by people wanting to further their agenda by driving the other side into defending positions (if lucky with those facts included). I hope the effects in text are not as bad.