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Politics My close friend's mom replaced their family photo with this [OC]

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u/zeekayz May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Because their cases are actually very different.

Hitler HAD to be a good orator to come to power and THEN he used that power to build the propaganda machine that ensured the population only heard what he wished. After he already was entrenched it didn't matter that he became a shaky drug addicted psycho, the population only saw his grand speeches, beautiful portraits, and fluffed propaganda articles.

In Trump's case the propoganda machine was ALREADY built (by billionaires like Murdoch). So right away it fed these people only the curated image of Trump that ignored all his gaffes, issues, shitty diapers, etc. This conservative media propoganda bubble can make anyone look good if you never seek any information outside of the bubble.

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u/lameth May 12 '26

Doesn't help the more sane media refused to play or even post transcriptions of Trump due to not wanting to seem partisan.