Inevitably, my replies are now filling up with people who are eager for Kissinger to have been right that US national security required lots of murder, because it shows that US national security is a wicked goal from the outset.
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Frequently it's 'I believe in all the same basic factual claims as the Fox News Cinematic Universe, I just view them through a different ethical lens'.
Much more difficult problem in a lot of ways, because it's almost impossible to get them to admit it.
To be fair in the case of a lot of people it's just that they have such deep ambient vibes from the FNCU that they may find themselves accepting it in weird tangential ways.
That is, you might say, part of the point of the FNCU in general.
Well, negative polarization works in funky ways - you have people who would never agree that X Democrat is a secret Communist who nevertheless harbor the same core belief - 'Democrats lie about what they believe and want to harm working people' - and fill in the details their own way.
A lot of it is just shared low-information voter tics and weirdo communal vibe checks replacing basic factual understanding. Propaganda is designed to shift vibes, to create unconscious impressions - and it works beautifully.
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"Kissinger: not the man we needed, but the devil we deserved."
Much more difficult problem in a lot of ways, because it's almost impossible to get them to admit it.
That is, you might say, part of the point of the FNCU in general.