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    MoA: How To Plant Propaganda: "Putin has been weakened. Russia is crumbling." Archived Message

    Posted by t on June 27, 2023, 8:54 pm, in reply to "AM: Putin Strengthened After Mutiny Peacefully Quelled, Explains Tactic, Prigozhin to Belarus, US De"

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/the-making-of-propaganda-putin-has-been-weakened-russia-is-crumbling.html#more

    bevin comments:

    "..."It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true."..."
    james@3

    Perceived by whom? The eight columnists and their audiences, the few who listen to the noise that goes with the cabled wallpaper are unimportant. They don't think so changing their minds doesn't count.

    The US and its satellites have become a Totalitarian society of unprecedented tightness. And this tendency to suppress dissent and quiet disagreement, let alone debate, is constantly driven by technological 'advances' which allow the ruling class to monitor opinion to an extent that Orwell never dreamed would be possible.

    This discussion, obscure and trivial though it might be, is carefully recorded and analysed, (logarithmically? [easy there bevin .. did you mean algorithmically? : )] ). All participants are identified and their filed profiles constantly updated.

    And just because it can be done- it is illegal, it is pointless. And yet it leads inevitably, as we have seen during the 'disinformation' and 'misinformation' monitoring crazes, to demands for governmental action. To the creation of Assanges all over-truth tellers to be driven mad or buried.

    Hence the prosecutions of individuals calling for an end to pouring weaponry into Ukraine. And, here in Canada, the enormous difficulty peace campaigners and other opponents of Ukrainian Nazism have in hiring assembly rooms. And, having hired them, fighting off thugs determined to prevent discussion of Ukraine. Or Israel. Or Capitalism. Or pregnant men and the women who made them so.

    What this is leading to is a body politic without a functioning brain- legislatures that make Hitler's Reichstag look like a lively exchange of ideas, a media which pumps out, uncontradicted, increasingly extravagant and dangerous policy perspectives.

    In this world the advantage is with those countries with lower living standards, where 'education' is not omnipresent, and where the masses have more important things to do than pretend that their opinions matter on foreign policy matters. Those without TVs or the leisure to sprawl in front of them are better off, the illiterate are spared the poison from the Daily Mail or the NY Times. Those without elected governments are relieved of the burden of watching the Starmers and Sumacs playing with themselves.

    Russia has real problems, it has yet to escape the hell into which the Pied Pipers of Wall St and the City, Harvard and Oxbridge led it. But it will. Its people are alive and capable of returning to the mir and communal self rule. But the America that b reveals above, the dull stupidity and the sleazy misdirection, the columnists who have not had a new idea or an honest thought between them in eighty years, the economy a tribute to Ponzi and cheque kiting, the courtiers, like Blinken, surrounding the mafiosa officials. And the courtiers' courtiers, the journalists and TV presenters, themselves surrounded by sychophants and flatterers, bootlickers and careerists- America is in real trouble. Hundreds of millions hierarchically organised to conform- to 'go along to get along.'

    And Europe, admiring and attentive, eagerly emulating, aping everything that they see the drunken bully does. The countdown has begun.
    A ton of butter begging for a hot knife

    Posted by: bevin | Jun 27 2023 16:40 utc | 37

    Quite a reasonable rant by bevin

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