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This rather parochially presupposes the whole world operates on the same basis as the two-bit low-grade binary oppositional shit-flinging that passes for politi
by inopinatus 5y ago
This rather parochially presupposes the whole world operates on the same basis as the two-bit low-grade binary oppositional shit-flinging that passes for political discourse in the USA, or even cares much about it.
Fortunately, that isn’t how this works. Since I don’t live in the US or read its tattered, overwrought media except by accident, I can comfortably say “what political narrative are you on about mate”, and make my analysis free of whatever baggage that entails.
Which leads me back to saying, no thanks. What’s being peddled here creates no fundamental value, so the only beneficiaries are middlemen, their equivalents, and their proxies.
- jrsj 5y agoRepeating a narrative that was crafted with a particular political intent is furthering that intent regardless of how you’re thinking about it internally. And unfortunately us Americans are really good at exporting our shittiest ideas everywhere else (especially Western Europe) so it still has meaning regardless of where you live
- inopinatus 5y agoExcept I'm not "repeating a narrative", I'm drawing my own conclusions. The assertion that anyone who disagrees with (whatever) must have been brainwashed by something they read is pathological for debate.