The best propaganda takes advantage of flaws already present in a culture, it doesn’t try to create new ones
Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔
DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not entirely sure why all of this is being blamed on Russian propaganda. To me, that seems like a lame excuse for the US getting itself into this mess.
In any case, there will certainly be no mysterious agents coming to rescue you from your self-imposed fascism. You’ll have to do that yourselves, so I would strongly recommend that you stop assigning blame and finally do something—otherwise, you won’t be able to post on Lemmy anymore because you’ll be brought into line by the state—then you could complain about Russian conditions, if that were still possible.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You mean like propaganda taking advantage of the fact that most Americans are already incredibly xenophobic to blame all of America’s problems on evil foreigners
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
This is an extension of the adage that the best lies contain elements of the truth.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’m not entirely sure why all of this is being blamed on Russian propaganda.
Because liberals are nationalist American exceptionalists, so they need to find something to blame Americas problems on other than America itself
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t know why because you are PROFOUNDLY uneducated about it.
Here’s a documentary from 2018 with McCain and Clinton: youtu.be/5umiMThrlsA
There’s also the book American Kompromat by Unger that goes into SUBSTANTIAL detail for DECADES and shows how Russia has been accruing blackmail globally.
And then multiple protests globally (Romania, Georgia, Slovakia, Serbia) regarding online Russian interference plus many many memos including from our own government.
home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766
Russia has engaged in MASSIVE MASSIVE online warfare, including on Lemmy (eg, you, maybe). It’s more effective than bullets and biowarfare in some ways. Idk how you can’t see how big of a deal it is.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I love completely unsourced xenophobic conspiracy theories topped of with McCarthyist witch hunting
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unsourced? It is thoroughly sourced. lemmy.world/post/36107411/19469733
I have no issue with the Russian people. It’s the Russian government/state I have an issue with, often I emphasize this but I truly thought it was clear by how I was saying they were enslaving their own people and harming them etc - average Russian doesn’t want this.
Being against a fascist leader actively attacking your country and other countries and funding Nazis and fascism globally isn’t xenophobia, that’s quite obvious.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
So all of those links contain evidence for the specific claim that Russian is engaged in “MASSIVE MASSIVE warfare on Lemmy” specifically? Because if not, and it’s actually just you posting every unrelated link about Russia doing anything bad you could find in the hope that the sheer number of them would dissuade anyone from actually double checking, then you are actively and deliberately lying through your teeth. So which is it?
Blaming all of your countries domestic problems on a secret conspiracy by your nations foreign enemies, while accusing anyone do disagrees with you of secretly being foreign agents is about as xenophobic as you can get.