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Which is fucking hilarious, when you think about it: we are the ones who have filtered media. They speak from a script approved by the billionaires.
It will never fail to amaze me how you can prove to an American that all mainstream media is owned by CORPO and they accept that but they can't rub two brain cells together and extrapolate how CORPO would want to control the narrative.
Hasn't it been almost a decade since smaller media outlets there all but died out? If you don't have much other information available for you to consume, you're not going to learn much or have any 2's to put 2 and 2 together
Any American who wishes to know what is really going on must do a very deep dive into many rabbit holes to find what they are looking for. I started questioning the narrative at about 3o years old, which was about 30 years ago. I asked everyone "how does one learn the truth?" no one I knew could answer that. I would watch the news and be so confused all the time. I read a lot of books in my life from Dickens to Salinger etc, every classic I could get my hands on, I read, and I think that helped some. And I traveled to other countries when someone else would pay for it, which also helped a little bit. but it wasn't until I found people like Lee Camp (who was on R.T. when I first found him) and he led me to Richard D. Wolff who led me to Chris Hedges. I now primarily listen to Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges-- and thereby get all my truth. But look how long it took to find them! I was a liberal up until I found Wolff. Which was about 2015. I also listen to Sam Vaknin on occasion. I refuse to listen to mainstream media but every liberal I know is absolutely engrossed in the cult of personality in which they sit around watching late night comedians while texting their friends about the comedian's words and they think that this is being involved. And when someone like me who has been listening to Richard Wolff for a few years (he's a Marxist economist if you have not heard of him) actually knows what is going on in the world and tries to have a conversation with one of these people (like my sister or brother or any of their friends) about current events I am told I am insane, stupid, don't know what I am talking about and should just shut up.They refuse to listen. If it wasn't said by their favorite political comedian or their favorite news anchor or People Magazine they refuse to hear it. Because to have a different opinion than those outlets would get them thrown out of their 'friends' groups. And that friend group is all they have, people who sit around eating chips, texting each other while watching TV -- that's all they have.