• Saryn@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Your logic completely nullifies human capacity for agency and thus makes no sense whatsoever. Conditioning is important but it does not negate responsibility. Not yet anyway…

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      4 hours ago

      If my argument nullified the capacity for agency then propaganda could not exist.

      I am saying that propaganda was used to make people vote for Trump. Without that propaganda, they may have voted in their own interests, like protecting bodily autonomy and basic human rights.

      Propaganda is the thing that swayed them.

      Some people are defenseless to it. They never stood a chance against the billion-dollar machine built specifically to win their vote. I feel sorry for them because they were tricked into giving away their futures.