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In 2024, it's completely rational to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Because this time, the Russians are really behind all of it.
by wwilim 2y ago
In 2024, it's completely rational to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Because this time, the Russians are really behind all of it.
- dewclin 2y agoBoth sides use propaganda.
- mgoetzke 2y agoThere is a definite imbalance. Russia is using it way more aggressively by far. And they actually physically attack us as well
- martinko 2y agoThis false equivalence is literally russian propaganda.
- dewclin 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_propaganda_during_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_propaganda_during_Ru...
- martinko 2y agoReally comparing the 'ghost of kiev' to the systemic undermining of western democracy by russia?
- viridian 2y agoThis just reads as "propaganda is when people say things I don't like". An actual, academic study of propaganda, such as the course that the University of Nottingham offers, makes clear a very different fact. The USA is far and away the greatest propaganda engine the world has ever seen, and it hasn't been close since the cold war was raging. We push out our ideologies and force the normalization of American culture onto half of the world. Looking at a globe it's actually harder to find a nation that isn't a client state than is. The lumbering, outdated regional power that is the current Russian state wishes they could wield propaganda a quarter as well as America.
- aredox 2y agoOnly one side is invading the other in order to annihilate it, and it is Russia.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoThats like saying both horses and container ships are used to transport cargo.
- piva00 2y agoNot necessarily behind all of it, they just learned to push the right buttons and tilt the scale. They just fuel wedges, disatisfactions, and divisions that already exist, they learned that amplifying them is making democracies ungovernable. So they keep doing it because, unfortunately, it's absurdly effective. Only blaming Russia for all of it is just another way they win this propaganda/hybrid warfare, you don't take seriously the grievances of the "other side" because you feel it's all just fueled by Russia. It isn't, those grievances and problems are real, they've just been amplified and twisted, and by getting worn down of how much vitriol is spewed from whatever is the "other side" to you it works. It makes you emotionally tired and wanting to fight back by spewing your own vitriol, there's no more conversation, only stupid discourse, the division only grows from there.
- surfingdino 2y agoRussians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken. Pity they never learned how to make their own society work.
- dewclin 2y ago> Russians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken Do you not also think the West understands how Russian society works and how it can be broken? I find it interesting how we're ignorant of our own propaganda activities in other countries. For example, in the UK we have a dedicated army unit [1] that: > uses social media such as Twitter and Facebook to influence populations and behaviour [which is] involved in manipulation of the media including using fake online profiles [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#Activities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#...
- surfingdino 2y agoYes, we understand how the Russian society works. Or, rather, how it does not work.
- snowpid 2y ago