A lot of US propaganda in World War II was actually not at a much higher intellectual level. In particular, the whole “victory girls” thing (inspiring the troops with porn and prostitution, basically), has often struck me as an instance of proto-reddit mind.
It’s like how the Vichy French gov’t was populated by rookie conservative nerd Heritage Foundation-esque freaks. The leaders of Western neoliberalism tomorrow are Reddit nerds whose interest in politics started from LARPing fascism in HOI4 and guzzling political compass memes.
It is very disturbing how Reddit-like that response is
Almost like they are all astroturfed by the same 3 letter agencies.
Absolutely surreal in the worst ways to see a major world conflict being fought in part with smug social media dunks.
A lot of US propaganda in World War II was actually not at a much higher intellectual level. In particular, the whole “victory girls” thing (inspiring the troops with porn and prostitution, basically), has often struck me as an instance of proto-reddit mind.
It’s like how the Vichy French gov’t was populated by rookie conservative nerd Heritage Foundation-esque freaks. The leaders of Western neoliberalism tomorrow are Reddit nerds whose interest in politics started from LARPing fascism in HOI4 and guzzling political compass memes.