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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the largest, best funded, and most effective propaganda system in human history?

China?

What nation uses its global media apparatus to whitewash centuries of unending war?

Russia?

Like, if you want to tee up an "America bad" answer, just fucking ask. American propaganda has excused and made apologia for a great number of awful things that we should have opposed, or should continue to oppose, especially capitalist bullshit and rampant interventionism.