Lord Wiggle @ LordWiggle @lemmy.world

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He should have been a long Island ICE tea

I just see through the "innocent facade" and judge the underlying bias. Propaganda these days can be hard to recognize for most people. Some are obvious AF, like Fox News, although loads of people are unable to even see that. Other sources, like Smarter Every Day, have a finesse and innocence built into it making it hard to recognize it has a strong bias foundation, even making you defend it even though I doubt you are MAGA yourself. Fox is for dumb people. Propaganda like Smarter Every Day is to trick people who won't fall for Fox.

There are news sites with relatively normal news articles. Not much opinions in them, not radical. On the surface it looks like a regular news site. Comparing it's articles to other news sources and it isn't much different. Trustworthy news site right?

But when you look at the web address, you see it is registered in Saint Petersburg. There are no ads on the website and there's no paid subscription plan. What is their source of income? When you check the articles on the website, they are almost all about something negative in the US. The same articles as on US respectable news sites. But only the news pertraying the US in a negative way. All the other articles you see on US news sites which aren't negativity tinted are missing on this website. But the articles there are rather solid.

This is an example of very subtle propaganda. It's not in the extreme form like with Fox News. It's in the absence of anything unfavorable to their naritive, which gives a certain view on the US in general.

It's like the review system on Amazon. When a product has 100 reviews, with 95 five star reviews and 5 is one star reviews. Pretty decent product, right? But when you only show the 5 one star reviews, the product looks like shit.

With Smarter Every Day it works somewhat similar. He scetches a scenario which is favorable to the Trump naritive, but leaves out a lot of other factors which are unfavorable, yet very real. With in the end the effect of people like you defending him and his naritive he tries to push.

Not all propaganda is obvious AF and focused on conspiracy loonies. There's all different kinds of propaganda tailored for everyone.

Thanks! <3

No, no bandcamp. I'm just jamming, playing around, I barily record anything. Whatever I did record is on Soundcloud but the last upload is already really old.

Are you aware he's a creationist, a republican and a Trump supporter? And this video about producing locally, the thing Trump tries to do with his tariff wars, isn't political? What got us into this Trump mess is people not seeing the political views in the content they see, believing anything they see and becoming pro Trump as they are constantly being fed MAGA propaganda. You not being able to see what this channel is trying to do is the issue with why fake news is having such an insane success rate.

But who am I, really. I'm only an OSINT analyst specialized in fact checking and analyzing fake news narrative in media and it's effects on the targeted crowd. See this article I was the leading researcher.

They should storm the Capitol, somehow that's totally accepted. No need for the military. Just poop on someone's desk and you'll get a pardon.

Tiananmen square LA.

Because there's no collateral damage too great when it comes to oppressing the fight against tyranny. Just wipe the event from history, act like nothing happened. Dehumanize the opposition and slaughter them like pigs, kill press freedom to control the narrative.

The police is already heavily militarized.

Yeah, it's called trade. Trade is good for the economy. Every economist will tell you that. But feel free to follow Trump, who says the economy will be better when everything is made in the US.

We all rely on each other. International trade has never been on a larger scale as it is right now. You can't have a complete production line in a single country. Like Nintendo said, it would cost billions to set up their entire production line of the swith 2 in the US, and even when they would try it would be impossible to do it a 100%. Resources come from all over the world. Rare earth metals are being imported into Taiwan, chips are being produced which are being imported into Japan. The chip machines are made in the Netherlands, which buys its resources from other European countries, the US, Asian countries like China. This is the entire process just to produce a chip. There's an entire different international production line for just the screens, as well as all the other parts.

Back in the days you needed copper for wiring and plastics to mold, and you basically had a rotary phone. Easy to produce in a single country. Not comparable to phones these days. Trading was expensive back then. These days trading is cheap. Beleving everything needs to be made in the US using US raw resources is completely dillusional. Like Trump.

Even for simple products like a grill scraper, the most economically efficient way is to use the international market. It might not feel nice to be reliant on other countries, especially when you start trade wars with everyone and make everyone your enemy. Look at Russia, and the European reliance on them with gass, oil and rare earth metals. Even now we buy Russian stuff, even though we don't want to. The alternative is to destroy our economy, like the US is doing right now. It isn't fun, but it's the reality. We slowly need to find substitutes. For that we can't just say we will do it ourselves, we need to look for new sources elsewhere.

The world isn't as simple as it was the 19th and early 20th century. You can't compare it to our current economy, products and lifestyles.

What a load of MAGA propaganda. Saying American made products are good quality. Ehm. No, they aren't. They are usually shit quality and aren't allowed in Europe because they are dangerous / toxic. It's overpriced junk.

Also his product looks shit. It's a combination of hard and soft materials. That means there are several weak points. The metal handle is connected with a single screw in plastic. The plastic will break and the sponge will wear really fast.

American producers need to cut costs, otherwise their already overpriced product will be insanely expensive. In China they have cheap labor, in the US they can only cut costs with cheaper materials and importing from China. When they don't import, they will have to be creative by using less material and cheaper stuff. Poorly regulated, toxic material for example. Softer metals / plastics. While in China they don't have to import most of their material, or it comes from neighboring countries. Chinese products are actually of better quality than American ones these days.

I remember buying my first Leatherman, a long time ago. The blade is made of extra hardened steel, it's impossible to dent it. I recently bought the new flagship Leatherman, for 300 euros. The blade got dented while cutting cardboard. The multitool I bought on aliexpress for 20 euros has a hardened steel blade and doesn't dent at all.

Now Trump is angry becssue the EU won't take poor quality American products. Like chicken for example, in Europe American chicken is concidered toxic.

Chinese EV's have surpassed American EV's by a long shot now.

The time of Chinese products being shit has passed. It's a struggle for European companies to compete. The time of American products being shit is now.

The smarter everyday videos do not fit their YouTube name anymore. I used to love his videos but for several years already it has become propaganda junk. He's just a MAGA hillbilly who thinks he's super smart.

https://youtube.com/shorts/EdzU9rzqtpU

Over here whenever you get a new provider, the voicemail is automatically enabled. You need to actively disable it or you are being spammed with messages from your mom saying "hi, yeah, so I tried to call, but you didn't pick up.... So, I'll try again in 2 minutes. Bye!" "hi, yeah, so I tried to call you again, but still you didn't pick up. Why aren't you picking up? Anyway, I'll try again in a bit. Bye!" etc.

I disabled my voicemail. Problem solved.

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Have a woman do it, or end up in a man cave like me.

Haha hahaha who would buy this! This is so funny! Does anyone have a link by any chance? So I can make fun of it there, of course. Totally not to make an offer. No no, I would never do that again. Trust me, I'm a professional couch fucker.

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Everything from Massive Attack

From what I've seen, they don't even learn about the law and often break the law by illegal detainment, searches and confiscation. Cops who served for over 20 years but don't know people their rights. They often get minimal training while having to serve alone where everyone carries a gun. That's asking for problems. And now cops in the US are militarized with heavy combat gear, while the majority is white and racist. So obesity is the least of the problems with US police.

The funniest thing he could do is drive a cybertruck off a cliff.

"Quick! The Gestapo is running into resistance, send in the SS!"

Well, Americans always defend their guns because they could use them to rise up against their government. So honestly, although normally considered impressive, you Americans raised our expectations even higher.