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Propaganda doesn't totally rob people of ~~agency~~ free will (more accurate term), if it did this site wouldn't exist. People do have the capacity to develop critical thinking, skepticism, and a basic curiosity about the world that allow them to develop some resistance to propaganda.

You can hold people accountable for failing to even attempt to do this.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, but this doesn't really map properly into the real world. People don't just receive discrete, neutral information which they either do or don't have the training to verify. The circumstances that lead to the development of ideology (bourgeois or proleratian) vary wildly and some people get radicalized into good comrades by mostly the same conditions that turn others into Klansmen. We do have a right to get a little bit angry at people who fall for propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, I very much recommend reading up on Classical Conditioning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

me, a beast: waking up

my scientist: let's put that beast in a situation

me: yes honey yes-honey-left