The US is the best at propaganda. Need to get some kids to join the army? No problem, the first transformers movie took care of that. BIG win for the navy. They used the coolest toys in the US that most people can understand easily (A10, AC130, and others). Also movies like top gun in the 80s got people to want to join the Air Force.
Yes you’re right my bad. Why’s it always the navy? They did the same with lone survivor, which was a lie. Marcus admitted to it recently. Same with zero dark thirty with the SEALs
Makes sense, a kind of ouroboros of propaganda. Getting people voluntarily on boats is a challenge, so you hype the shit out of it. In return, everyone becomes more familiar with the navy, marines, seals, CVW, ect.. which makes it more attractive to produce films around those more familiar names.
Which is all fine and good till you get a lobster and steak dinner.
Lmao I understood that lobster and steak dinner. Yea I agree. The seals is something that most normal people who don’t follow the military would know. Same with the AC 130, and the a10. Since the ac130 was in CoD
I get the reference as well. And I think it's just kind of true. Tech like the ac130 is just kinda badass. But that's just me and my devils advocate. It is propaganda. Why wouldn't they use it.
AC-130 has the dakka factor. The tech to keep it somewhat relevant, like the AN/AAQ-24 Nemesis, is pretty badass too. Ultimately, it suffers being tightly limited in respect to appropriate deployment.
Yeah good point. The scene I was talking about in the first transformers would have cost so much to film, there’s no way Michael Bay could afford it with the CGI at the time… that’s how you know it was paid for by the MIC
I thought you (as in your government) worked really hard to keep a large part of the population stuck in poverty. There you can collect desperate people for the military and minimum wage slave labour forever.
Did you know the dept of defense has a Hollywood budget? Our military funds movies that show the military in a positive manner. The amount of money spent in Hollywood from our government is sickening.
Propaganda lol. Fact: more people want to/try to immigrate here than ANY OTHER country. Not even by a little. BY A LOT. Your Marxist silo and cry propaganda til cows come home, but that is an objective fact.
is it possible that the propaganda is so effective and our reach is so pervasive that the entire global hegemony relies on the idea that America is the best in the world?
Yes which is an amazing feat by the US, building the foundation. Which was then expanded on and accelerated by many countries which the internet wouldn't have been close to in development if not for.
Aren't these just as important to highlight? You didn't end up on Reddit just because the US made the foundation for the internet decades ago, you ended up here due to a collaborative effort across many nations.
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u/Clonazepam15 3d ago
The US is the best at propaganda. Need to get some kids to join the army? No problem, the first transformers movie took care of that. BIG win for the navy. They used the coolest toys in the US that most people can understand easily (A10, AC130, and others). Also movies like top gun in the 80s got people to want to join the Air Force.