how you recognize propaganda is that everything is propaganda. your comment, this comment, the original article, the concept that russia remains communist, it’s all propaganda. the key isn’t learning to recognize propaganda, it’s learning to analyze the biases of who’s presenting the propaganda.

here, i’ll tell you my biases. i’m an anarcho communist located in the united states. there. now that you have that intel, you can start to assess what kinds of propaganda you’d expect to see from me. more, when i don’t put out the kinds of propaganda you expect, you can question the following:

1. do i have a blindspot? are my politics and my propaganda out of alignment because there’s something that’s been normalized to me that you should point out in the hopes i’m capable of growth (that’s what i did when i said russia remaining communist simply isn’t true)
2. am i misrepresenting myself or my propaganda? maybe i’m just saying i’m something i’m not to get my propaganda to people who are susceptible to not knowing my misinformation is misinformation, and then they’ll be shifted. or, is my propaganda lie meant to draw people to my misinformation stream. in this case, it’s best to disengage. block+report+ostricize+move on. this is what i would have done if i thought you were a tankie
3. do you have a blindspot? are my politics and my propaganda out of alignment because you, the recipient, are missing some piece of the puzzle. do you need to look into the validity of my claims to find out if you need to learn and grow and change? the equivalent to this would be if i found your message and your politics compelling enough to change my views

the kinds of classes we receive on how propaganda works in elementary and high school are meant to get us to rigidly stick to the status quo that benefits the authoritarian rulers of society. they are, themselves, propaganda. in fact, this notion you have that we can talk about propaganda without context i actually find a little bit dangerous. by stripping context and discussion of origins of propaganda, we actually create the exact form of non critical environment that benefits the misinformation peddlar.

then again, you don’t have to find my perspective compelling. that’s why i told you up front what it was, as well as what my propaganda is.

where did i name call? i was just pointing out that it’s some tankie propaganda. i think your post was overall fine. ohhhh, wait did you think i was calling you a tankie? shit, i didn’t mean that, i just meant the propaganda was tankist in origin

i don’t think you’re evil. i just think it’s fascinating how pervasive “russia is still communist” is as a talking point when it’s decidedly not

russia decidedly does not continue to claim to be communist. putin’s parties have all been various forms of anti-comm far right nationalist parties. the idea that russia is still a champion of communism worldwide is some weapons grade tankie copium

Estonia

sounds like elon just found some new inefficiency

/s

until we all start a major global conflict by invading you. also tradition

Ukraine has an instance: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/

that’s why the broligarchs are buddying up to the dictators. the bottom is falling out of the surveillance capitalism market for advertising because it was never as effective as the ad marketplace brokers said it was. so the broligarchs need to sell their spying on us service to someone else and they’ve elected for the police state

The average republican voter (and American voter, regardless of party preference, really) doesn’t actually understand how our government works. They think they vote November 2-8th, and the new government takes office as soon as the television declares a winner. And this includes people who participated in the January 6th insurrection. Some people who were there did not understand that what was really going on was an attempt to disrupt the certification of the electoral college ballots. They thought they were preventing a hostile government takeover (ironic). This is how powerful propaganda can be. It can inflame people who only kind of know what’s going on into thinking they’re experts. It tricks the sleeping into thinking they are away

Yup. We can’t vote for the best possible outcome until our voting system lets us. Now we might never get the chance in my lifetime. The goal needed to be to vote in the best possible outcome candidate (the lesser of two evils in a binary choice election) and keep advocating for election reform. But instead we’re here, with the eviler of two evils in a binary choice election, and the possibility we’ll never get to vote again.

the number of republican voters i encountered after the election who weren’t worried about project 2025 because they were going to vote against it in 2025…

if only anyone had been warning against this!

morons.

wrong washington

✨ legally weird for historical slavery reasons ✨

he’ll be pardoned because this is the kind of loser our two presidents are

Yeah dipshit we’re not asking you to lie down on the tracks and die, we’re asking you to do what russian anarchists do and rip out the the tracks entirely

Hulk Hogan was close personal friends with someone that raped Andre the Giant’s best friend. Also keyfabe got Andre needing to say the thing because that’s how the business works. But also its easier to make your keyfabe hatred of someone believable when you actually factually hate that person. Which in this case Andre the Giant did