think I noticed this in '99 when every god-damned outlet in the country was talking about how Clinton was "stepping up" attacks on Yugoslavia for about eight weeks straight
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Replying to @eigenrobot
it's astonishing that they don't attempt to deviate from the script at all. they must know that it breaks the kayfabe and either don't care, or possibly are under explicit instructions to use the language given to them by corporate.
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It’s mainly rational laziness. Most people can’t be arsed to put in extra effort when nobody really cares, and they have bills to pay, and a sprawling list of overdue deadlines, etc
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you're probably right but I choose to believe that they are intentionally more malicious than is necessary because they enjoy getting away with evil
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it's not my fault! my parents showed me Manufacturing Consent instead of the Lion King!
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Oh the State is definitely in the business of that. Want to see some real evil shit look up how the US Army uses modern marketing funnels + scifi movies to do hypertargeted recruitment
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strong prior that the army's recruitment strategies are about as disconnected from outcomes as everything else the government does
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Not sure what you mean by that...? That the org is too big to appreciate what it’s doing? That’s probably true; still the reality is the most gullible of bros are funneled and patriotpilled into thinking they’re joining a glorious battle of good vs evil
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you described the recruitment as "hypertargeted" but it is seems unlikely that the military is actually "hypertargeting" very well except by accident; I doubt that there is a tight feedback loop from recruiting outcomes to the people doing the targeting
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