I’m not skeptical per se. I’ve just been propagandized so fucking much—I grew up watching those propagandocumentaries on the National Geographic Channel about the DPRK, etc., fr that was what I watched instead of cartoons lol.

Pretend I’m a lib who you’re trying to convince, or something. In addition to calming this feeling in my gut like something isn’t making sense, I want to be able to make this argument, myself.

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    I don’t know that there’s a simple answer for what you’re looking for. We’re talking about trying to undo a lifetime of propaganda.

    For me, Blackshirts and Reds, Yellow Parenti, The Jakarta Method, Wretched of the Earth and then Blowback were probably the biggest de-brainworms. Plus, lot of books on US history to realize how much of what I’d known was more mythology than history.