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What weird false belief did you have as a kid? (lemmy.ca)

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 44 points 4 weeks ago

That America was the greatest country in the world. And truly, not trying to be political, but honestly the propaganda in Midwest America was real. I didn't know anything about other countries - except for we were better. We figured it out, we built the best system ever and everyone else wanted to be like us.

Now those are the people I see overseas who are about to get punched in a pub.

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 25 points 4 weeks ago

That midwest propaganda is still around, just chewed out a coworker who said they'd be fine with everyone in Ukraine dying so that the US can 'have more money' and 'be independant'

[-] Famko@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

How did they react to you calling them out?

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 8 points 4 weeks ago

They shut up luckily enough

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