re: Does anyone else find it baffling how bad Americas image is

The media in this country lies to Us
The media is alegit propaganda under the guise of news.
When big pharma is running ads every commercial break do you think they are going to speak ill of big pharma.
When the news executives hide stories about Harvey Winestein, Epistein ect who does that help?.the victims, the public? It helps them.
The media controls what you see and hear even in passing.
The people who allow themselves to be consumed by the left or right media are just lost souls begging to be part of something a group / movement that gives the purpose, because their lives a generally sad and lonely. Except the cool grand pa who believes every conspiracy, he fun to be around!

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I have watched a ton of WC videos of foreign fans surprised they wouldn't get murdered in the streets.

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The socialist democratic media machine tried, but failed, and it's glorious to see.

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Unfortunately there is no IQ requirement to be able to express your views on the internet.

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And/or vote

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They figured out pretty quickly that the media here and in their home countries lied to them. Nothing baffling about that

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And there were also areas of Chiraq, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. that they didn't visit.

Everyone is realizing the media is a joke.

How many threads here are reshared tweets?


Yeah ,media gets America wrong
Some dipshit here thought France was in Civil War or savanah Guthrie mom missing would be solved by the OT

A while back X changed the algorithm to where we were getting a lot of posts from Japan.

I discovered that the Japanese seriously thought the rest of the world hated them. They are taught this in school and by their media. The rest of the world supposedly hated them because they were too "Eastern" and because of the Fukushima disaster after the tsunami. There was a lot of guilt about World War 2 also.

Americans were baffled by this. Most of us respect the Japanese and their unique culture. Not sure why they would think we hated them for a disaster that was not their fault. In fact it was pretty brave how they handled the situation.

The Japanese are widely recognized as always doing the right thing even when it's difficult. Hard to think of another nation or culture that shares that reputation.

I say all this to show that it's not just a European or American phenomena. The press lies to us all and are the enemy of the people.

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Yet, there are daily threads exaggerating any negative from Europe on this very board which have been shared constantly on social media.

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And most of that comes from X, not our mainstream media.

Media can be bad but it doesn't hold a candle to the Facebook and Twitter campaigns designed to throw gas on the fire of whatever political biases their target has, left or right.

I live in NYC so it's obvious how out of countless local news stories, the worst one always immediately makes it to Tigerdroppings.

That's everywhere on all sides these days and it's a lot more social media political influencer driven than simply traditional media, though all the niche cable news outlets are doing their part as well.