Well, I made a generalization. Probably lots of people were against. And I agree that education is very important in order for people to become aware of things and intelligently question them. But again, who is going to educate people? The ruling class have the money and they do everything to degrade people. Although, I see little glimpses of hope in younger generation. For example, I read that they reject e-books and prefer printed. Maybe there is still some hope.
I think that there were not many Americans against the bombing of Jugoslavia because they either didn't understand or didn't care. Again, they are kept ignorant and stupid by their leaders. They were told by the Jews in power (Albright and Holbrooke, especially) that Milosevic was like Hitler and the Serbs (Serbs, not Jugslavs) were like Nazis. So, who can question that? You always have to be against whatever is named Nazi.
Hm... Could imagine something like that. Americans have barely an idea about European structures and ongoings, you could probably tell them any tale, about some country which doesn't belong to the famous Western ones they maybe heard about here or there, and they'd be able to believe it. The Europeans you can do this with do, see the Ukraine conflict and the constant repeating of "the annexion of Krim" in media without ever mentioning in between "until the '54 it was part of Russia, Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine, probably for the easier administration of the peninsula". Or the economical disaster in Greece. You got it pretty easily hammered into normal German heads that "Greeks are lazy", the mantra of the EU to cover up an imperial sell-out. If it's about territory that's barely ever the center of attention, I think, one can do this pretty easily. Only few percents of people go and do some research like "I wanna know his exactly"; part of them doesn't do because they like it easy, part of them lacks the brains to grasp it, part of them also does it because they don't have the time for it, besides all the fucking working more hours than the contract says.
I guess nobody cares unless it concerns them personally. And it is quite amazing how people just trust everything that is being labeled one way or another. I know mass culture and lack of quality education impairs people's critical thinking. But it is amazing how easily people believe everything they are told without any basis.
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Americans have barely an idea about European structures and ongoings, you could probably tell them any tale, about some country which doesn't belong to the famous Western ones they maybe heard about here or there, and they'd be able to believe it.
The Europeans you can do this with do, see the Ukraine conflict and the constant repeating of "the annexion of Krim" in media without ever mentioning in between "until the '54 it was part of Russia, Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine, probably for the easier administration of the peninsula".
Or the economical disaster in Greece. You got it pretty easily hammered into normal German heads that "Greeks are lazy", the mantra of the EU to cover up an imperial sell-out.
If it's about territory that's barely ever the center of attention, I think, one can do this pretty easily. Only few percents of people go and do some research like "I wanna know his exactly"; part of them doesn't do because they like it easy, part of them lacks the brains to grasp it, part of them also does it because they don't have the time for it, besides all the fucking working more hours than the contract says.
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Where you born in the USA?
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