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I mean democracy has never been real in The West. It always operates and constrains popular media, and cultural forces to constrain the resistance to Capitalism.
It's always coopted and cooperative with the forces of wealth and repression. So yeah, yell this shit on social media, maybe one day a diluted form will appear on CNN or NBC, but there's no way it will go further than that.
We're along for the ride, censored, confined, robbed of time, money, power and lifeforce... And only existing to be used in someone else's dreams of wealth extraction and labour exploitation.
EDIT: people don't understand manufacturing consent anymore.
The West^tm^
insert message shitting on The West^tm^, no matter if it's on topic or not
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I mean, I agree with you, but I don't see what that has to do with this post?