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lies from the tablecloth (feddit.org)

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's a consequence and a symptom, not the cause. The people manufacturing the consent and the one being manipulated into it are different groups of people. One is choosing and consenting, the other ones are more victims than anything else. It doesn't excuse the heinous shit some of them do or believe, but it explains it.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 13 hours ago

The cause is choosing to be manufactured consent. Choosing that manufacturing is the consequence we keep revisiting. If the ones being manipulated stopped to think “maybe we keep choosing wrong” they wouldn't be in position where manufacturing consent would exist, they would instead choose to simply collaborate with despots that happen to be corrupt old white men.