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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by majormajor on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:58PM (#35417633)
> The idea that their army is the coolest and will save us from aliens, that their bilionaires (oligarchs) are secretly superheroes, that foreign leaders are crooks secretly plotting to conquer the world and so on.

Nothing more American than this example of how an oft-derided-in-the-rest-of-the-US bunch of coastal Hollywood elites constantly put out a bunch of movies glorifying guns, violence, capitalism, and the USA.

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by pastacacioepepe on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:08AM (#35420135)
It doesn't matter how USAers see it, it's how it's propagated in the rest of the world that makes how we see them. Together with the news of course, but Hollywood is probably the most efficient propaganda machine ever created.

Also it's not just about this over-the-top movies that are completely out of touch with reality. Often the propaganda is subtle and even unintentional, made by victims of propaganda themselves.

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