• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      35
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      Oh, I knew that.

      What I contend is that the reason such propaganda resonated among the peasantry and lasts to this day is because of how much of that propaganda felt true enough, even if it was for convenient ends.

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 month ago

        there’s that rich dude TODAY who gets his son’s blood injected into him. of course the vampire resonates today, THEY’RE LITERALLY AMONG US

        • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 month ago

          He’s not the only one, either.

          College kids get coerced into “donating” plasma “for research” and a lot of that plasma goes straight into billionaire veins because of totally-not-evil startups with names like “Ambrosia.”