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> Though the U.S. government eventually got out of the propaganda business

Good one!

US politics has devolved to the point where the government can no longer promote basic public health measures and we all suffer for it. It’s a fucking tragedy.

The feds don't do a ton of health propoganda anymore. They mostly delegate and shuffle money to the state who do it. It still gets done, probably more so now than then.

O RLY? https://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/dig-posters

Six downloadable posters you can print yourself? They're really pulling out all the stops for this one.

All the stuff I see locally (billboards, local TV ads) is state and locally done with fed grant money (there's a little semi-transparent fine print that tells you).

this band looks rad

https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f...

Responses like this are both why I chuckled at how many “don’t tell me what to do!!!” retorts I could imagine a sizable portion of the US would reply with to so many of these (like the eat fruit one), but also it was a great reminder of how square and absolutely fucked we are as a nation due to those attitudes.

Which get amplified. For political points. Actually almost entirely amplified by political points.

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