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Definitely more. The propaganda machine with modern technology and the internet has only gotten much much worse

You only need to look at the stuff people believe about DPRK, China, and Russia today to see

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On the other hand, I think a larger proportion of people would refuse to believe it purely on partisan lines. So if Biden tried to sell the world on Iraqi WMDs, the Republicans would all refuse to believe it and younger right wingers would call Saddam based for fighting Iran that one time - and if Trump did it then the libs would take the position that he was obviously lying. In neither case would the opinion of the American people affect the actions of the government.

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But that somehow only applies to trump. Becasue the libs hate him for asthetic reasons. If it was another goul the libs would eat it up.

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Interesting take, I gotta agree.

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One could easily imagine a situation in which fewer people would reject the lies for good reasons (genuine anti-imperialist analysis, critical assessment of facts, that kind of thing) while at the same time more people would reject the lies for stupid reasons (the claims are all Russian manipulation/made up by the deep state to replace white people).

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