Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "What's the deal with defectors?" video.
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Great points as usual Hakim. So... I live here, and that has its plusses and minuses. Some pluses, certainly, but a lot of minuses. And as anyone who's managed to put down the kool-aid can see, anytime the Pentagon and by extension their loyal lapdogs in Congress (usually a GOP jerkwad but not always) want to drum up public support for a new and shiny or ongoing foreign intervention (always a hostile one of course), they will have a "verified testifier" or group of persons ready to testify to how terrible said foreign country is. Of course the MSM them does their part and disseminates it, and suddenly it's the new narrative; and unless one digs or looks beyond those that's all anyone will hear. Very standard propaganda 101; manufactured consent, etc.
Even I'm starting to question the NK stories that I used to take as gospel just a relatively short while ago. It never occured to me that any of them would be falsified in any way to serve the US's political agenda, bec clearly life in NK "must" be that bad! It certainly was in line what I had always heard. Ofc now seems quite clear (at least to an extent) that that is exactly what's going on. And ofc, as you know, it wouldn't be the first time demonstrably false or misleading characterizations of "enemy" states are allowed to percolate and propagate through the American consciousness.
When the business of the US stops being war and mass death abroad, including sanctions, this may stop, but not until then. In order to always have an enemy, demonization of targets must continue. But now with social media I think more and more people in the West are able to sift thru all the Pentagon-sponsored agenda, and recognize it for what it is. Not that those who were determined couldn't do so before, but I'd definitely say it's easier now thanks to the online world.
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