cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19346837
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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That was just the cost to buy a propaganda machine with over half a billions users.
And destroy its influence for the left
Prevent any more of those pesky arab springs or occupy movements.
Legit didn't think of it like that and I like to think of myself as an above-average-intellectual-left-wing-european.
Thank you for the spark.
Everyone has blind spots, intelligence has nothing to do with it.
Fair. I just didn't realise mine was so big. Time to have an existential crisis about how big my other blind spots are!