This is probably the wildest assumption I’ve heard so far.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    honestly it’s good to have these conversations. your perceptions of eachothers comeups are heavily influenced by propaganda. your new friend has it in his head that we all have luxury underwear. this is not an accident. one of the things i’ve been bonding with my foreign coworker over is she’s been realizing my rural american upbringing matches her own experiences in a lot of ways she didn’t anticipate because the media about what america is like that reached her focused on specific urban and suburban experiences that aren’t… real. that’s the thing with sitcoms and dramas that we export. they influence perceptions of how we live abroad and that can influence people to see here as something it isn’t. having these talks help build international solidarity

    • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
      31·
      3 days ago

      this is a great insight. it echos hearing some americans say they’re glad they don’t live in russia or china, as those populations are totally brainwashed.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        to me it’s a matter of that everyone everywhere is victims to brainwashing. it’s more and less intense depending on where you are, but ultimately, any genocide anywhere requires the isolation and manipulation of everyone everywhere. nationalism and religious radicalism only get survive through the eras by tricking us into not seeing eachother for who we really are. it’s easier to convince someone that america is better than their homeplace if their homeplace is made terrible. it’s easier to convince americans they’re better for being american if america can make living other places worse. then you trick the people who make being american their whole personality into believing they have to keep people from shithole countries out or risk america becoming a shithole. and this is every imperial state.

        the way i see it, the system of torture we exist in is enabled, enforced, and continued to benefit a small cabal of powerful men who hate everyone and everything

  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    lol that’'s such a random assumption. It makes sense though from middle school onwards I thought victoria’s secret was “sexy” and popular with women since it was back then. When I went with my wife once I realized how garbage it was.