Fug it, you deserve your subjugation

[woo me with science]

5. DU suggests that

the propaganda machine, like the government's spying infrastructure, is reaching a level of depth, interactivity, and microscopic invasiveness consistent with the deep pockets of the corporatists and the authoritarian state. We live in a creepy new reality in which Americans who believe they are merely having political conversations on the internet meet immediate, relentless, swarming, and manipulative pushback to any criticism they might level at the Powers That Be.

There is an entire machine in place to manufacture the illusion that Americans welcome what is being done to us and have contempt for those who would disrupt it.

It is creepy as hell, and, when combined with awareness of the metastasizing spying and police state infrastructure, truly chilling.