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>>19250453
>I don't deny there's pro-America propaganda. I'm not blind. Do you deny that the American people have some influence over their government at a local level? It's pretty ridiculous to me to act like the U.S state is as uniformly authoritarian and dystopi c as the CCP
You're responding to me, so I figured I should try to answer. Thing is, I don't actually know. Or maybe both are, they're just dystopian in different dimensions (fuck me I'm starting to sound like an anarchist). Like, my conservative friends here will be familiar with military recruitment ads, and the Chinese ones seem old-fashioned and authoritarian, but it's pretty straightforward stuff about "doing your duty," while the postmodern American ones say "I'm a lesbian mom and being in the military gives me a chance to express myself by operating a remote-controlled killbot."

But there's the more gung-ho stuff, too. There was a recent Marine ad where a guy is *living in a futuristic dystopian America* and he's so atomized and alienated he joins the Marines which is presented in this typically authoritarian way like a Chinese ad (which rules, it's very powerful):

https://youtu.be/bCjEV75F2tM

But he's fighting to defend that same dystopia! So what's more dystopian? I dunno. I think right-wing politics in America is kinda like that Marine ad, though.