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[from TFA]: The offending content was a page titled, "Minimal and Reliable Methods for Growing Psilocybe Mushrooms." It's no suprise that they would ban the wh

[from TFA]: The offending content was a page titled, "Minimal and Reliable Methods for Growing Psilocybe Mushrooms." It's no suprise that they would ban the whole of Reddit rather then let people grow and eat psychedelic mushrooms. It's just a testament to how dangerous they think this is for their current regime. Drugs, especially psychedelics, are antidotes for brainwashing and they know it and won't allow it. I strongly believe that if more people took psychedelics in Russia, the regime would melt away and young people would start inventing crazy cool stuff and organizing Burning Man's instead of listening to state propaganda and preparing for WW3. Theories aside, I'm really sorry for the people in Russia who are affected by the decisions of these zombie officials and each time I see something like this, I feel a greater need for a decentralized web which would be impossible (or extremely difficult) to block. (If you're working on something like a decentralized/p2p web/Internet/content distribution platform), let me know, I'd love to join you.

maxxxxx 11y ago
Somehow I doubt that in Russia young people "listen to state propaganda and prepare WW3". If you believe this you are probably victim of other state propaganda.
- sandworm101 11y ago
  Russia still does conscription. So all, well at least all MALE young people, do listen to propaganda and prepare for WW3. They do not have a choice.
  - maxxxxx 11y ago
    I was in a conscripted army too. Technically I was preparing for WW3 but in reality we drank a lot of beer and waited to get out again. We certainly didn't think about fighting a war. I don't think Russian soldiers think differently.
    - ild 11y ago
      Russian Army is like American Prison. Violence, a lot of violence.
      - elementai 11y ago
        It's more like boredom and stupidity, but that's probably universal between countries.
        ild 11y ago
        No, violence in Russian Army is institutionalized, it is called "dedovshina".
        elementai 11y ago
        How do you know actually? A lot changed in past 4-5 years, having a soldier with a black eye is a whole lot of trouble for commanding officers and they sometimes take ridiculous measures to prevent that. Of course it's not same everywhere, but it's army after all.
  - SXX 11y ago
    Young people in Russia usually don't have a job and have a big issue getting one; even if they have a job they clearly don't have salary high enough (not talk about Moscow there) so they work a lot. As result they have limited amount of money or just live with parents for long time. Fortunatelly there is internet, computer games, series, films so in both cases these people don't have a time to watch propaganda TV. Sadly I can't tell the same about other parts of country population because there is huge amount of older people that don't have a job (and have absolutely no way to get one because in Russia nobody need you once you're older than 40) and of course they have nothing else to do than get drunk and watch TV. It's also a lot easier brainwash people that had no life, have no money to live like in US / EU and have no future.
- codeshaman 11y ago
  I speak Russian and I read and watch Russian media from time to time. I'm sure not all young people are buying into the official propaganda. Unfortunately 80%+ approval rating for Putin shows that most of the people, including young ones, are believers in the same state-produced message: fear and caution, revisionism, nationalism, conservationism, etc, etc. And the subject of WW3 is discussed quite frequently, on talk shows on state tv channels.
  - SXX 11y ago
    80%+ approval only saying that 60%+ of country population don't care about politics. At all. People have too many other problems to worry about: how to pay bills, where to work to get money for food and few others needs (like to buy expensive clothes / iphone / etc). Unfortunately very little percentage of country population have even rough understanding what things like "democracy" or "liberalism" mean, but this is expected because there was never democracy in Russia. Pretty sure that North Korea would have 100% approval rating for almost same reasons. Also to be clear I don't mean that no one affected by propaganda. Pretty sure that like 70% of people may actually agree on many things shocking for average european. Though very few of these brainwashed people will actually go defend Putin regime in case something happen. Likely it's about the same amount of people you may see participate protests in past years.
  - fokinsean 11y ago
    What kinds of things about WW3?
moron4hire 11y ago
Or, it could radicalize them.
cnp 11y ago
Agree, but also believe that the great barrier to clear thinking is extreme alcohol consumption. That's where they get you!
supergirl 11y ago
great theory, man. i don't know who is brainwashed more, the Russians or the Westerners
- exelius 11y ago
  Well, half of the Russian populace is so drunk they don't care. And apparently half of the US populace is high on mushrooms because Donald Trump is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate... But the biggest difference is that the US government doesn't throw people in jail who disagree with their policies... yet.
  - supergirl 11y ago
    US will do anything to protect itself, same as Russia. US politicians will do anything to get votes, same as Russians. there is nothing fundamentally different between them. just different circumstances, different cultures, etc.
    - exelius 11y ago
      Yep; that's basically the definition of realpolitik. People everywhere just want to live and be happy.
  - moron4hire 11y ago
    >> But the biggest difference is that the US government doesn't throw people in jail who disagree with their policies... yet You sure about that? Tell that to all the people in jail for non-violent drug offenses. Tell that to Aaron Schwarz. Tell that to Chelsey Manning. Tell that to Edward Snowden (if they ever catch him).
  - sosborn 11y ago
    >Donald Trump is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate Not really. Those numbers are for the Republican Primary and you better believe they are being pushed up by Democrats. Democrats would love nothing better than for the Republicans to march out Trump as their candidate.
kushti 11y ago
From the text, it seems you've eaten way too much psychedelics trying to wash out Russian propaganda from your brain
paulojreis 11y ago
Well, talk about (effective) propaganda...

maxxxxx 11y ago

Somehow I doubt that in Russia young people "listen to state propaganda and prepare WW3". If you believe this you are probably victim of other state propaganda.

sandworm101 11y ago
Russia still does conscription. So all, well at least all MALE young people, do listen to propaganda and prepare for WW3. They do not have a choice.
- maxxxxx 11y ago
  I was in a conscripted army too. Technically I was preparing for WW3 but in reality we drank a lot of beer and waited to get out again. We certainly didn't think about fighting a war. I don't think Russian soldiers think differently.
  - ild 11y ago
    Russian Army is like American Prison. Violence, a lot of violence.
    - elementai 11y ago
      It's more like boredom and stupidity, but that's probably universal between countries.
      - ild 11y ago
        No, violence in Russian Army is institutionalized, it is called "dedovshina".
        elementai 11y ago
        How do you know actually? A lot changed in past 4-5 years, having a soldier with a black eye is a whole lot of trouble for commanding officers and they sometimes take ridiculous measures to prevent that. Of course it's not same everywhere, but it's army after all.
- SXX 11y ago
  Young people in Russia usually don't have a job and have a big issue getting one; even if they have a job they clearly don't have salary high enough (not talk about Moscow there) so they work a lot. As result they have limited amount of money or just live with parents for long time. Fortunatelly there is internet, computer games, series, films so in both cases these people don't have a time to watch propaganda TV. Sadly I can't tell the same about other parts of country population because there is huge amount of older people that don't have a job (and have absolutely no way to get one because in Russia nobody need you once you're older than 40) and of course they have nothing else to do than get drunk and watch TV. It's also a lot easier brainwash people that had no life, have no money to live like in US / EU and have no future.
codeshaman 11y ago
I speak Russian and I read and watch Russian media from time to time. I'm sure not all young people are buying into the official propaganda. Unfortunately 80%+ approval rating for Putin shows that most of the people, including young ones, are believers in the same state-produced message: fear and caution, revisionism, nationalism, conservationism, etc, etc. And the subject of WW3 is discussed quite frequently, on talk shows on state tv channels.
- SXX 11y ago
  80%+ approval only saying that 60%+ of country population don't care about politics. At all. People have too many other problems to worry about: how to pay bills, where to work to get money for food and few others needs (like to buy expensive clothes / iphone / etc). Unfortunately very little percentage of country population have even rough understanding what things like "democracy" or "liberalism" mean, but this is expected because there was never democracy in Russia. Pretty sure that North Korea would have 100% approval rating for almost same reasons. Also to be clear I don't mean that no one affected by propaganda. Pretty sure that like 70% of people may actually agree on many things shocking for average european. Though very few of these brainwashed people will actually go defend Putin regime in case something happen. Likely it's about the same amount of people you may see participate protests in past years.
- fokinsean 11y ago
  What kinds of things about WW3?

moron4hire 11y ago

Or, it could radicalize them.

cnp 11y ago

Agree, but also believe that the great barrier to clear thinking is extreme alcohol consumption. That's where they get you!

supergirl 11y ago

great theory, man. i don't know who is brainwashed more, the Russians or the Westerners

exelius 11y ago
Well, half of the Russian populace is so drunk they don't care. And apparently half of the US populace is high on mushrooms because Donald Trump is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate... But the biggest difference is that the US government doesn't throw people in jail who disagree with their policies... yet.
- supergirl 11y ago
  US will do anything to protect itself, same as Russia. US politicians will do anything to get votes, same as Russians. there is nothing fundamentally different between them. just different circumstances, different cultures, etc.
  - exelius 11y ago
    Yep; that's basically the definition of realpolitik. People everywhere just want to live and be happy.
- moron4hire 11y ago
  >> But the biggest difference is that the US government doesn't throw people in jail who disagree with their policies... yet You sure about that? Tell that to all the people in jail for non-violent drug offenses. Tell that to Aaron Schwarz. Tell that to Chelsey Manning. Tell that to Edward Snowden (if they ever catch him).
- sosborn 11y ago
  >Donald Trump is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate Not really. Those numbers are for the Republican Primary and you better believe they are being pushed up by Democrats. Democrats would love nothing better than for the Republicans to march out Trump as their candidate.

kushti 11y ago

From the text, it seems you've eaten way too much psychedelics trying to wash out Russian propaganda from your brain

paulojreis 11y ago

Well, talk about (effective) propaganda...