• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What we are, specifically, is partially brainwashed. And I mean that quite literally. A large number of people have been watching “Fox News,” a fake “news” entertainment channel specifically designed to brainwash its viewers for literally their entire lives.

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      2 months ago

      All the big news channels are propaganda and entertainment machines in their own way. A majority of voting Americans are hooked into all of that trash TV

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      2 months ago

      Real brain washing involve depriving the victims from any news source beside what the brainwasher approves. It also involves some sort of torture.

      people watching fox news willingly are not brain washed.

      they might be ignorant, naive, uneducated, simpleton but not brain washed.

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        2 months ago

        If you check the definition of brainwashing, you are only using the more strict definition. They would technically be considered brainwashed.