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I don’t think noting that Kim Jong-Un’s sister beats Pence on TV charisma counts as supporting North Korea over the US. It’s merely observing skill at optics.
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appearances are effective insofar as people react to them -- how differently would people remember this if media said the opposite?
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Most Americans think that they won the war against Hitler (and not the Soviet Union), that they didn't start the Vietnam and Afghan war, or that Putin stole the elections. I wouldn't call people idiots, but media spin generally works.
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Sure. And it works well in narrow cases full of esoteric facts like climate science or tobacco. Not so much when it's basic tribalism. There they can only be fuel not spark.
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