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@stux @Bellingcat Thank you for posting this and thank you for your excellent response. There's no end to how insidious Russian manipulation is in trying to shift views, and there's much too much apologia for it online — including on the Fediverse. Being open and transparent about it like this is super helpful in combating it. 6 comments
@erosdiscordia @rhys @stux @Bellingcat it really is. it makes me feel a little hopeless about being ever able to reach people again, but it also gives me a shred of hope. this tells us that the people who are winning the propaganda wars think the kinds of propaganda we can create and disseminate the easiest works. it also gets me thinking about where i see the most christofascist messaging: on street corners. well guess what!? we got posterboards and magic markers, too. @FlexFoot @erosdiscordia @rhys @stux @Bellingcat there's some chance it's deliberately designed to split society, and run by russian assets. I'm sure things are bad in America but it's in a lot of people's interest to make them appear even worse than they are. @aliengasmask @FlexFoot @rhys @stux @Bellingcat I do think Russian propaganda is in large part designed to cultivate a sense of hopelessness in people, and make them feel like it isn't worth trying to fight back. The players behind all that crap do have power, but are way weaker than they want anyone to believe. @erosdiscordia @aliengasmask @rhys @stux @Bellingcat there is no greater power in the land than a band of working men, one industrial union strong. solidarity forever. and that's the power they can never wield against us. they are all single parasites hoarding power. their power is measurable in munitions, but what if the working folk they "force" to fire on us just… stopped firing? what if the genocidal freaks' armies woke up to the truth we know: that more unites us than divides? |
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@rhys @stux @Bellingcat i've been seeing a rising wave of russian propaganda in the streets, too. people are putting up pro-russian street art in here in the united states, especially near towns with Trump stores. i can't prove a connection, but i have my suspicions that this is no accident. it's really important right now that if you have the power to do so, start putting out anti-authoritarian propaganda in physical space