The junk food industry reverse-engineered your ancestral cravings and sold them back to you as toast.
You crave the SPD.
So they made SPD shaped toast.
PSA on spotting weird military propaganda (intentional or otherwise!) on your timeline!
According to DoD Instruction 5400.17 3.1.c, DoD personnel (including service members) are NOT allowed to use DoD trademarks or branding on their personal social media accounts. If you see anyone using official DoD branding (INCLUDING the insignia of specific service branches) on their account, they are either:
A. Illegally using those symbols, which would make them subject to disciplinary/legal action, or
B. Operating with the consent/approval/endorsement of the DoD, explicitly or otherwise
Either way, if they're:
- Posting thinly-veiled recruitment videos with titles like "Why Should YOU Enlist In The Navy?"
- Personifying the military as an approachable, friendly character
- Trying to promote service by acting as outreach to potential enlistees (cough cough 18-24yo male demographic)
- Promoting military service as a net positive
Then they are doing PROPAGANDA.
"Uncle Sam Wants YOU!" posters, those recruiters in your high school guidance counselor's office, military e-sports teams, sexy military tiktok influencers, military-themed vtubers - these are ALL forms of propaganda and should be recognized as such.
Propaganda doesn't have to be state-sanctioned or even intentional. Hell, you can even AGREE with whatever is being propagandized - I, myself, technically engage in propaganda whenever I say things like "workers should have more control over their own lives", "LGBTQ people are cool", "building a guillotine is a fun weekend craft project", etc - but ALL OF IT is, technically, propaganda!
Be aware!
Law & Order: SVU surprised fans by featuring an original VTuber in a new episode
Viewers were shocked to see the show use a fully rigged custom model instead of a generic animated avatar
This is the logical endpoint of gun ownership in America. 250 years removed from the fowling piece of the farmer or the cannon of the town militia, you get funko pops for Black Rifle Coffee-Americans who posture endlessly in the comments of predator-catcher Instagram Reels.
It's genuinely sweet to see how this resonated with so many people but it does remind me of the Stav bit where he's like "80% of ethnic groups are exactly the same everyone's like oh we're always late, we eat a lot. You call strangers aunts. Only WASPs are not like this"
Left wing conspiracy: I just spent several years battling the government to FOIA request documents proving CIA involvement in a foreign crisis only for the White House press secretary to admit it and nobody cared
Right wing conspiracy: Has anyone noticed theres a lot of daycares