Watch this…
Radio Free Asia: "did you know in North Korea they eat babies?"
Me: "I don't believe that."
Radio Free Asia: "WHAT?!?!? How did you do that???"
See. And I'm just a dumbass who does nothing but smoke weed and watch pirated b-horror movies. Whats everyone else's fucking excuse?
People fall for this shit because they want to, not because the state department has magical brainwashing powers. Propaganda doesn't mean people don't have fucking agency.
Yeah, I think we think that, because we consider our opinions on politics to be carefully considered, that we forget there’s worlds of other topics that are tangentially related but that we don’t really give a shit about putting in the effort to be correct about.