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Engage a liberal on Marxism and witness pure ideological autocomplete when they start flawlessly regurgitating anti-communist talking points with zero cognitive friction. No material analysis, no historical engagement, just the frictionless recall of a language model trained on Cold War tropes.

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My favorite is “I lived through the Cold War”, as though being a veteran of propaganda saturation makes them an authority.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I lived through the cold war and believed most of the propaganda. The layers of the propaganda onion are seemingly infinite. It took about 20 years to peel them all.

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