As an American I can identify with this. It's hilarious how petty propaganda can really go: right down to using the bathroom.
Don't even think about buying a Bidet, you stupid French pussy!
Instead, buy this wasteful disposable paper product on par with using a piece of tanbark.
Good plan.
There are so many commercials and brands to choose from when figuring out how to clean up literal shit with dried out wood particles.
In general, sustainable solutions are constantly laughed off the stage in America.
I think we probably went a bit backwards when we got indoor plumbing. It's nice to be able to wash your hands...but I'm starting to think a toilet isn't actually any better than an outhouse. After all, an outhouse is kinda just a basic composting toilet. Just put some saw dust on top when it stinks and put in a fan. At least you don't have issues with them dumping all your poop in your drinking water, or it causing an algae bloom.
But, as with almost everything in the world today, the main problem is implementation. Toilets wouldn't be a problem if they just filtered the water, perhaps even using the waste for power generation or fertilizing plants or algae that AREN'T for human consumption, to produce oxygen. They could even use it to make biofuel. Same with toilet paper, it wouldn't be as bad of an issue environmentally if they made it from recycled material. Then it would just biodegrade with everything else, if they, you know, composted the whole waste properly. Still kinda gross though.
As to it being propaganda...I dunno that the pentagon edits scripts to insert horrible comments about bidets into scripts...but they do about everything else, so maybe. Sounds like a really shitty job though. Pun intended.
It was liberal use of the word propaganda. More just a social construct that promotes hating Europe.