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the sad thing about american propagandists is that they willingly participate completely free of pressure from their government
by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
the sad thing about american propagandists is that they willingly participate completely free of pressure from their government
- close04 2mo agoDon't generalize. You have "principle propagandists" who just prosternate for free and become someone else's mouthpiece because their propagandist upbringing taught them so. But what you're replying to is nothing like that, it's the propagandist who does it for personal (and massive) financial gain.
- micromacrofoot 2mo agoI suppose maybe I'm giving him too much credit with the assumption that he could make money without parroting propaganda mindlessly
- vrganj 2mo agoThat's a very charitable take. My take is that his objection to a Chinese repressive regime isn't the repressive nature, it's that he's not part of the class doing the repressing.
- micromacrofoot 2mo agotrue maybe he seems himself as a temporarily embarrassed dictator
- Obscurity4340 2mo agoTemporarily embarassed billionaire cum Dictator