Or maybe you have a media literacy problem.

I only believe western media when it suits my world view vibes

Ye NK is not for me but we are world’s apart on this topic. It’s hard for me to articulate how propagandized the US is and how you are demonstrating that by thinking that NK is more propaganized. That very notion itself is proof of my observation but I realise this is not an argument that will cut through the noise for you and demonstrating this will be too time consuming so instead of arguing I would just invite you to think about your life journey until now, your education, the pledge of allegiance, the idea of the free market you grew up with and how that maps to ever growing wealth inequality, how health insurance is tied to employment, the endless support for war from both parties, the fact there are only 2 parties and this is somehow the pinnacle of democracy, the fact that no matter who you vote in they just do whatever capital tells them to do etc etc.

You’re not seeing this clearly. NK propaganda is so primitive they need to restrict the media people can consume. US propaganda mechanisms are so advanced and sophisticated that they can create the illusion of choice and the majority fall for it. There are so many avenues and strategies. The Koreans can’t compete. North Korea has a GDP of $34B. US marketing industry is nearly 18 times bigger than the whole of the NK economy. Do you understand what that means? They have to use crude methods because they can’t afford sophisticated ones.

I’m not a tankie I just find the content there more interesting than whatever bullshit PR puff pieces get posted elsewhere. Do you want to engage with what I said on a factual basis or is your max level ad hominem? The marketing industry literally evolved out of Freud’s psychoanalysis work as applied to US propaganda in the 2nd world war by his nephew Edward Bernays who then needed something else to apply it to after the war finished. American propaganda is so pervasive it’s fucking depressing. You go to Europe it’s there slapping you in the face. You go to South East Asia and it’s there again. I have never seen any NK propaganda outside what I see on Youtube.

Nowhere on earth is more propagandized than the US. It’s a literal $607B a year industry and it’s infected most of the planet at this stage.

No point in winning every side battle if it means you don’t win the war.

I’ve pointed out the same here and you simply won’t get anywhere with these “ultra ideologically pure leftists”. As I mentioned before I suspect some or even many of the loudest voices in left spaces are plants. Otherwise you would have to deduce that left wing people are intellectually challenged as to not see this but given my lived experience that is not remotely the case.

They’ll do everything but hold social media companies to account for their editorial decisions (ie recommendation algorithms). All this would be very easily solved by banning algorithmic recommendations or at least mandating pluggable algorithms with a sane default that doesn’t prioritise rage bait over everything else.