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Sounds like a fun new game, called "Propaganda or not?"
"Corn is $7/lb in America" is either propaganda or a joke from Arrested Development
Corn is 64c a pound where I am, not close at all to where it’s grown.
2$ here in houston
What grocer? 64 is at Aldis in FL.
Heb
Aldis is always cheaper than Americas grocery store chains, often by a lot.
Sounds like you should go there then, there’s a bunch if Aldis in Houston TX.
I'm saying that because its common that aldis has corn for say 75 cents a pound and kroger has it for 2$ a pound. They are less than a mile apart by me.
The best kind of propaganda is simply a perspective on the truth.
Back when Drudge Report and Brietbart were a huge hit online, the sites would have subcommunities that were entirely "Black Crime" and "Radical Islamism". They got flooded with videos, screenshots, testimonials, news reports, publicly available statistics - anything to reinforce the base claim that black and Muslim people were inherently dangerous to be around. You'll find lots of communities like that today on Reddit and 4chan and Twitter and in the back corners of your Joe Rogan Fan Community message boards, too.
People who come out of these media ecosystems are primed to be reflexively angry and terrified. They've been filling their brains with data point after data point - plenty of which are technically accurate - cementing the justification for their racist attitudes.
Now you're seeing something of the reverse on sites like Rednote. Endless iterations of data from Americans signaling that we are all miserable and impoverished and horribly abused by state administrators. What's that going to do to the brains of the people who consume it?