• @rodolfo
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    431 year ago

    soooooooo… drugs in the us get in by backpack? it seems to me he’s saying to his supporters that Florida gov is going to shoot on Mexicans just because…

    and well, you know, if you yourself shoot someone…

    i was listening to radio a few days back, and this us writer said something along the line “I fear that an American (he was meaning us citizen) is no longer admired, so in my story I …”

    admired? are people from us really convinced that there’s a sort of consensus by which united states people were/are admired?

    • @Bimbus
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      371 year ago

      Some of us, yes absolutely.

      Form of nationalism / hyper pride / drinking the kool aid that America is the perfect nation.

      • @tacosplease
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        231 year ago

        My backwards ass family is convinced. In reality they’re the type of people the rest of the world laughs at.

        • @rodolfo
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          21 year ago

          you’re welcome to read them my comment, maybe only just to annoy then or for shit and gigs. if you do, would you please give some feedback? ty

      • @KeyserSoze61
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        71 year ago

        Yup, those that say that we are the best country in the world typically have not left the US for more than a week at a time. It also fuels their xenophobia and the thought that resourceful immigrants that are taking the initiative to seek out a better life are somehow less than human.

      • @rodolfo
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        1 year ago

        may I ask you to stop using the kool aid metaphor and start using the term propaganda (if you think it’d be more effective, for example) ? just saying, eh.

        EDIT: downvote, but please explain, or ask me to explain. what kind of exchange is it otherwise?

        • @toasteecup
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          151 year ago

          It’s a reference to the followers of Jimmy Jones who upon being asked consumed poison laced kool-aid. I think it’s a rather fitting statement

          • @rodolfo
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            21 year ago

            oh finally I got some backstory on this. anyways my intent is to move away from pop culture. but I get your point, and I thank you

            • @toasteecup
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              61 year ago

              I’m curious, why the desire to do such? Pop culture provides one of the biggest methods to allow for social cohesion amongst various social circles

              • @rodolfo
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                pop culture it’s also a resonance chamber, where you get used to messages, finally losing deeper, inner meaning, in my opinion. propaganda, the term itself, won’t lose its meaning and, again in my opinion, ends being more effective. ty for asking

    • Poggervania
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      1 year ago

      Yes, and it varies between the gung-ho “AMERICA FIRST” people and the “well, at least it’s not (insert 3rd world country here) because they got no freedoms” people.

      As an American, I do not consider being American a point of pride. I’d rather tell people across the pond what state I’m from before telling people that I’m from America so I can distance myself from the US specifically, if that makes sense.

      • @rodolfo
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        11 year ago

        I got your point and I can’t find anything to add to what you wrote.