15 facebook memes can’t, but tens of millions working in concert with a mass propaganda establishment designed to churn out thematic nonsense at a rate impossible to refute while spurring the divisions in culture by doing things like subverting (via funding) establishsd american cultural commentators? Yea that probably had an effect. Did it dictate the results? no. But it sowed discord, and placed a heavy thumb on the side of the scales that won.

There are no more opponents of Putin’s course and, if there are, they are mentally ill and need to be sent off for clinical examination. Putin is everywhere, Putin is everything, Putin is absolute, and Putin is indispensable

That Aleksandr Dugin?

(I have read it, it’s… a textbook. Not derogatorily, it says nothing new because that’s not it’s goal and it does present it’s material in a pretty engaging way, it’s just not more than that (and it didn’t really claim to be))

Okay but like, how exactly, did MAGA rise? He doesn’t specify that either, mind, he just makes the controversial claim that people would talk about the rise of a social movement they oppose. This is, in this case literally, propaganda 101. That you’re entrenching yourself so hard against someone presenting a contrary idea is the fundamental way this works. I’m not attacking or rejecting you, I promise, please believe me. I used to be pretty anti-feminist as a teen (thanks reddit), and like the cat says, we all fall for propaganda. There’s no shame in that.

What I’m telling you is that this type of video (I think literally these ones with Yuri Bezmenov), where someone in a position of presumed authority claims that there’s a vast Global Communist Conspiracy (or the like) that will take down America if it doesn’t do things like “teach the next generation True Patriotism”, will be used ten years later as an example in Foundations of Geopolitics. You’re falling for the exact same propaganda that actually led to the rise of MAGA. It’s not “enabling social rise through careful manipulation and Marxist Leninist concepts being unchallenged”, it’s telling both sides they’re right and giving them proof that the other side is clearly being manipulated.

(“It’s right in front of you” in particular means nothing. You can’t hide a huge social movement of the kind needed to destabilize a country, that just… doesn’t even make sense. It’s just a call to accept your own biases as factual. "It’s not a shadowy baseless conspiracy, it’s exactly whatever you think it is!")

… That video is a former KGB guy claiming color revolution theory as a real thing - it’s total bullshit, dreamed up to entice the same people that fall for Cultural Marxism today. It sounds really good, doesn’t it? But it’s all just confirmation bias - you’re ignoring everything else that’s happening, and the beats he lists off are incredibly common. Oh look:

• The younger generation is more liberal
• Your politicians are corrupt
• The economy is being volatile
• People won’t like changing their mind even when presented with evidence

WOW! But we have recordings of people complaining about the same things carved into megaliths a few thousand years ago, so he’s not exactly going to burn out his crystal ball by predicting they might come up again. It’s the exact same kind of BS the CIA trots out to explain how it overthrew all those South American governments: they didn’t, they just took credit for it and everyone believed them because it sounds so good. If you want more evidence that his theories are bullshit, look around: Did the US fall to a “Global Communist Conspiracy” in the last 40 years…?

Thank you! That’s… not much better, but at least it hasn’t gotten quite as bad as it’s going to…?

sigh. This shit is so fucking exhausting. just. fuck.

I’ve seen this article a whole bunch now, and I have yet to see anyone day if these SK workers were even here under false visas or something? They say they haven’t been charged, but are they just rounding up “legitimate” immigrant labor now, not even holding to their own flimsy pretense?

Do they? I mean, there’s photos of literal piles of dead children and IDF executing people by tossing them off buildings - how much worse could it get? They pretty clearly aren’t a bit afraid of this being documented or ashamed when it is.

Aight the sad trolling is whatever, but why the bracket smileys? That a cultural thing or just, idk, a personal preference?

… Really selling the quality of your political insight here.

Hey, you said it.

This is just sad.

Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him - despite having been vocally pro-german before he saw the reality of what his country stood for. People change, shitty people included. Sometimes, they even change for the better.

Also I’m not white, nor a gringo. It’s pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.

He hasn’t been involved with the party for the last 20 years, has been vocally opposed to their values for most of those 20, and nonetheless is still presented as though he’s an active member & nazi by pro-russian media. The information is true, the context in which that information is presented is manipulated to be pro-russian.

I’m not… really sure what that means in this context.

A hermit nation like North Korea, but with a nuclear arsenal that works, is a really really bad idea. I mean, seriously, what could go wrong for the world?

Ah, I did indeed. Thank you!

wait, how? Last I checked we didn’t even know how it was spread, nor did we have a reliable treatment. This is huge, just weird to be this uninformed on the process of a super important medical development.

Lisps don’t make you a jerk, though…

So… about the Zetas…

Hobby.

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