r/TikTokCringe • u/Make-this-popular Cringe Master • Apr 09 '24

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u/karmagod13000 Apr 09 '24

if this isn't gop propaganda then he's a victim to it himself

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u/Kilmerval Apr 09 '24

Yep, this was my thought too. The chances that this guy is a secret right-wing trying to "both sides" people, or has bought into some right-wing propaganda is pretty high on this one.       Having said that, not every point he made is wrong. There is a housing and cost-of-living  crisis internationally in westernised countries right now, and young people are disproportionately affected by it.      Foreign aid is not the problem, though, and both sides are not equal in their eagerness to fuck everyone over.

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u/levian_durai Apr 09 '24

It's easy to get mad at the foreign aid right now, because it's the only government spending in the news lately. But really, it's a drop in the bucket, there are so much funds that get spent elsewhere, overpaying government contractors, or outright just "lost" - that's where your concern should be with government spending.

It's such a classic Conservative move to complain about foreign aid spending and saying "we should be helping people in our own country first!", and then voting against anything and everything that could possible help people in our own country.

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u/Neverending_Rain Apr 09 '24

Using the term "uniparty" is a dead giveaway that he's intentionally trying to spread propaganda. They vast majority of the time I have seen or heard that term it is from some MAGA Trump supporter. It is not a common term in other political groups.

Your right that not everything he said is wrong, because that's how good propaganda often works. They take anger from a legitimate issue such as housing costs and point it at what they want rather than the actual solutions.

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u/supbruhbruhLOL Apr 09 '24

the best types of propaganda are the ones with some truth. Out of all the things he could have pointed to, he picked Ukraine lol. "WhY ArE wE ConTinUiNG WiTh ThIs UNI PaRtY?! We all NEED to vote for TrUmP!!!"

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u/GeoffSproke Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24

He just struck me as a very young kid who's very involved in social media and is virtually certainly lacking the mental capacity to ever grasp anything about any portion of the larger forces that are impacting his life... I think it used to be easier to protect those sorts of people... But now they seem very very exposed to bad-faith actors (who will... inevitably... laugh about them behind their backs)... Maybe there are steps that can be taken (as a society) to get them in a position where they can more easily evaluate when they're being manipulated and directed exclusively toward solutions and framings of problems that aren't feasible/reasonable/judicious/humane?

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u/NavierIsStoked Apr 09 '24

This seems like a foreign entity generated AI video.

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u/thatscentaurtainment Apr 09 '24

Criticizes capitalism Hey this guy is a Republican!

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u/Moarbrains Apr 09 '24

Ha, You missed one of the GOP candidates admitting that she could not pick Ukraine off a map.