As we know, capital co-opts everything, especially criticisms of capital.

Homeopathy went out of favour once germ theory was established. From what I gather it was more or less dormant for a hundred years, then came back with the 1960s/70s counterculture movement and scepticism of modern pharmaceuticals. From then on it was turned into a huge (grift) industry of its own.

Germans also love anthroposophic remedies, which originated from a guy who would have been a Nazi had he only lived a bit longer.

other imperialist powers like China.

Whoa there, are Red ultras?

Otherwise, it hits most of the key points people are frustrated about. One big one to add is the underfunding of healthcare.

The German health minister finally had the nerve to suggest that health insurance should stop paying for homeopathic remedies (because it’s a two hundred year old grift) and people got really upset.

There’s a really good essay on Red Sails which discusses this in some detail.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

The tldr as well as a short answer to your question is that the propaganda may be seen through, or at least suspected as exaggerated in some way, but it doesn’t matter because it matches up with a person’s real and perceived material interests.

Interesting that the far-right opposition was absolutely incensed by the Liberal’s 2022 internet “misinformation” censorship proposal, but now that it’s TikTok in the crosshairs there isn’t a peep of criticism.

As (in)famous German internet comedian El Hotzo said, “how I make fun of how so many dumb Americans vote for Trump in a 25% AfD country.”

They pretended to not go along with Trump’s ideas the first time around, but as soon as everything went back to “normal” (ie. a polite president who doesn’t say the quiet parts out loud) they just went back to vassal mode.

The Europeans made some charade of distancing themselves from the US during Trump’s first term, but then Biden got elected and everyone just forgot why they were ever critical of vassalization to the US in the first place.

Every accusation is a confession.

BI has a history of praising the various Nazi tactics used in this war.

The ghost of my lai strikes again.

EU politicians: we have to protect our legally heavily subsidized auto industry from illegally subsidized foreign auto industry!

The heavily subsidized EU auto industry: we have to close EV factories because nobody is buying our EVs.

What We Do In the Shadows (2014)

There just aren’t competing colonial or imperial powers anymore. WWII and the agreements between the western powers directly afterwards set the stage for one imperialist power and many vassals. While non-US western countries certainly have their neocolonies and partipate in empire, they have no means with which to stand on their own as imperialist powers.

I think we are already starting to see what a multipolar world looks like: cross border cooperation to improve everyone’s material conditions.

AFAIK Twitter started flagging every .cn link as “Chinese state media” a few years ago already. Could be the same with .ru and .ir.

Are we on the Call of Duty timeline?

Basically simultaneously to his cheating scandal which led to his resignation as CIA director, the 2012 CoD released which portrayed him as being the Secretary of Defense in 2025.

It seemed hilarious then but it’s not so crazy now.

Just need an aircraft carrier called the Obama and we’re set.

It’s only a problem in capitalist societies, where exponential growth for the altar of capital is a requirement.

I wonder what those measures are. The article only says that thirteen were announced, but not their substance.

I host my own with Pihole and Unbound (which I would recommend if you have the technical expertise). Adguard gives you similar functionality on a hosted service (ie. you don’t have to set it up yourself).

In terms of which public servers are good, or at least censorship free, I just checked Google, Cloudflare, and Quad9 and they all resolved RT and Sputnik, sites censored by the EU. I’m located in the EU.

They start at $500 and go up from there. Now that I actually calculate it and don’t just do sleepy mental math it’s closer to the cost of one meal a day for a year (ca. $650) rather than all three meals (ca. $2000). Either way, the prices are completely absurd.