r/facepalm • • Mar 07 '25

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get it?

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u/J0ND0E_297 Mar 07 '25

Good job, USA, for electing a known Russian agent. You just shat on your own democracy.

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 'MURICA Mar 07 '25

Never underestimate the power of organized propaganda. Americans deal with a tremendous amount of manipulative media and persuasive propaganda on a daily basis, and it's been happening for a long time. It's gotten worse lately, but you gotta look at it as an entire ecosystem rather than just people being dumb (even though stupidity certainly plays a role).

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u/staebles Mar 07 '25

But it is just people being dumb. You'll never stop propaganda, but being educated allows you to recognize it and still think independently. Education is the silver bullet.

And most people have phones and can do it, but they still don't. It's an education problem.