A while back I caught my Arabic relatives from the old country trading a Facebook article about how 7 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices were Jewish, proving that the US is a puppet of the Jews. I had to use the translate feature to understand what they were talking about, but they all speak English and I showed them definitive evidence of the religious affiliation of every justice, demonstrating that they were not 7/9 Jewish.
They said “okay maybe not.”
I said “So maybe the US isn’t a puppet of a Jewish conspiracy?”
They said “oh no, it definitely still is.”
People are 100% out there manufacturing disinformation to advance their agendas, and for Russia and China, the polarizing rancor in the US is an agenda unto itself.
And we are incredibly susceptible to this. It will only change with critical thinking skills among the general populace. I forged mine in the decades prior to the internet even existing. I have zero notion how anyone forges theirs today, growing up in a roiling soup of disinformation.
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A while back I caught my Arabic relatives from the old country trading a Facebook article about how 7 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices were Jewish, proving that the US is a puppet of the Jews. I had to use the translate feature to understand what they were talking about, but they all speak English and I showed them definitive evidence of the religious affiliation of every justice, demonstrating that they were not 7/9 Jewish.
They said “okay maybe not.”
I said “So maybe the US isn’t a puppet of a Jewish conspiracy?”
They said “oh no, it definitely still is.”
People are 100% out there manufacturing disinformation to advance their agendas, and for Russia and China, the polarizing rancor in the US is an agenda unto itself.
And we are incredibly susceptible to this. It will only change with critical thinking skills among the general populace. I forged mine in the decades prior to the internet even existing. I have zero notion how anyone forges theirs today, growing up in a roiling soup of disinformation.