This isn't "conservative propaganda." Oh, right, it's critical of the government currently in power, so it must be Republican because liberals literally cannot conceptualize anyone being further to the left than the current Democratic party.
It's being pushed because it's effective propaganda, and it's effective propaganda because it's true, the government is underserving disaster victims, it always has, this is a long-running criticism that has been practically unaltered since at least Hurricane Katrina. It has spanned multiple presidential nominations and is truly bipartisan.
As with many things, there are shades of truth to it, but all-in-all it’s deeply misleading. There’s plenty of money to help hurricane victims, regardless of the Israel situation. But one party (and only one party) has consistently blocked those efforts. NC state assembly tried to pass a bill giving hurricane victims a mere 5-day extension to the voter registration deadline, and all repubs voted no, which prevented its passage.
Please try to keep the bigger picture in mind when expressing your frustration with our funding of Israel. There’s nothing wrong with advocating on behalf of hurricane victims. In fact, it’s noble. But when it crosses over into perpetuating false repub talking points, it uses those victims as pawns in misinformation campaigns, at which point it becomes deeply disrespectful to them.
I’m probably making myself vulnerable to claims of being overly selective in my wider interpretation, but given the reality of our climate crisis, anyone who goes too far in obfuscating the culpability of those who refuse to even acknowledge the existence of the crisis is basically doing the same.
There isn't "plenty of money" going to hurricane victims or victims of any of the global warming induced natural disasters that have struck in the past few decades. The people who live in the affected areas were underserved before the disaster, they are underserved during the disaster and they will continue to be underserved in the years to come.
The comments are the only place where this is divided. The post itself indicates the American Government, which is currently predominately conservative. I agree with your points, but you're fighting for no reason in a philosophy sub which is lost to memes because it has anti-liberal moderators.
It literally isn't true. FEMA is doing it job right now. Congress is failing to reconvene for any further assistance because the GOP speaker is refusing to do so. I was in these folks shoes 4 years ago when Laura and Delta came in quick succession. FEMA came in & did their job, just as before. Our congressman and senators had zero interest in actually getting assistance to us and no one cared enough to make propaganda about it. It's GOO propaganda because they are trying to frame all of these failures as the fault of one person who is currently using the levers of government at their disposal to do what is possible.
Fema is drastically under-funded, meanwhile billions go to Israel. We see where our government's priorities are. This isn't a Democrats vs. Republicans issue, this is an issue of the US once again living up to its nickname "the Great Satan."
It is not despicable people like Trump and his affiliated using it as propaganda that makes it exclusively "conservative propaganda", or right or wrong, true or false,
and that should be clear for everyone from every side. That's what makes the distinction between fanaticism and serenity.
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u/beardedheathen Oct 12 '24
Why are you spreading conservative propaganda? Yes we are sending a ton to Israel but the hurricane victims are being helped.