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#519 - Balaji Srinivasan - Legacy Media Is Lying To You

Modern Wisdom

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Digital Hard Power Is Not Soft Power, Right?

Sally Kohn: The one thing that the US establishment has in its back pocket is digital power. It's not really soft power, right, meaning being deplatformed and seeing all your money frozen. That's much more than just influence. But it's also not traditional hard power because invisible,. You can use it against a hundred million people and no one sees it. There's no bruises, no explosions. And so when soft power isn't there, the establishment is trying to use hard power. Hard power means even more disrespect unless you're able to atomic bomb somebody into submission or denozzify them like they did to Germans.

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