@PattyHanson

What's interesting to me about this propaganda onslaught (and why it's, frankly, working) is that the US could have inoculated its population against this kind of manipulation if it had actually acted with ANY accountability in its history.

But it didn't. It loves its white supremacy and nationalist patriarchy too much. It refuses to evolve.

So here we are. Ingesting the propaganda of another country against our own because there's a sizeable kernel of truth embedded in it. Truth our own nation refuses to recognize.

@PattyHanson

A journalist (I think she was a journalist) made this really good point:

These are basically a type of ISIS videos.

Back in the day, she said, she and her colleagues would receive these and would never share them because their recruiting intent was so clear.

But they were also largely Other and so less successful in the West. But instead of some hooded dude speaking another language in front of an ISIS flag in a stark room, reading a speech into a camera, we have hip hop and LEGOs.

But the LEGO diss tracks allow direct and wider messaging - they're basically the same thing (harsh indictment of corrupt and immoral America) but the call to action, like you said, is a bit more opaque and the messenger (a LEGO) is already inside our cultural reference bank.