As if I am myself immune to propaganda. Thanks for a daily reminder, kind stranger.

invasion happened in '21

24 February 2022. I see that you’re not from a neighboring country, otherwise you would have remembered this date

Nobody was talking about invading Ukraine before 2010, even in 2014 the idea about invasion was marginal: Crimea was something that wasn’t generally perceived as a part of Ukraine (bc reasons, don’t dive into it), while Donbass was washed as a separatist movement.

But there was also a significant piece of propaganda that demonized the new Ukrainian government, its people, and the whole premise of Ukraine’s existence. This propaganda was not a deliberate preparation for invasion, but a move that put the invasion card on Putin’s table as an option.

The very same is happening in the western media with the same methods used, like one discussed before. To have this option just in case they need to engage in a war with Russia.

I hate the US and Russia equally

As a Russian myself, I don’t. They are not equal at all: Russia is an established authoritarian state with imperialistic ambitions, while the US is a fully fledged imperialist with authoritarian ambitions. They both deserve hate, but for different aspects

You wouldn’t believe that this was one of the narratives for justifying the invasion to Ukraine in early 2022. Russian social media was full of narratives basically saying that Ukrainians are no longer able to scam common Russians, because the so-called “scam centers” were hit by missiles.

It’s 2k26 and the same warmongering narrative is everywhere in the west social media. Y’all think you are invincible to propaganda, yet you’re falling to it in the same way.

This hook you’re describing is intentional

Matrix has you

That’s how you get class consciousness

You’re absolutely right!

Israel

Racism is never about empirical properties of its object. The object is always constructed and reflects the racist’s fantasies

BECAUSE THEY ARENT SENTIENT NOR ARE THEY A RACE.

They are not, but you still can be racist towards them

They do not, but you can still be a racist towards them. It’s not about llms, it’s about you

Like fuck AI, but the general vibe is that bots are anthropomorphic and we should exclude them by the same reasons we previously were excluding black folks.

The whole text sounds racist AF

Both dead

My favorite episode with them happened in Russia. There was an internet community “Leave us alone” that was simultaneously pro-Putin and opposed COVID restrictions. Then, in February 2022 they supported the war in Ukraine. But when the draft process started, the community got renamed to only include the leader name (Mashkova). Naturally, they were supporting the draft.

All conspiracies but antivax struggle with the common question: if the conspiracy is true, why should you do what you are doing?

Antivax in this weird sense is adequate. If vaccines are engineered in order to shrink the population, you shouldn’t give a shot to your kid.

Is it me or is this a recent trend of making the impression that paedophilia in the 70s-80s was normal? Like a week or so

I’m going to open it wide open to kill every spider in my body

“but have they tried Opus 4.6/ChatGPT 5.3? No? Then disregard the research, we’re on the exponential curve, nothing is relevant”

Sorry, I’ve opened reddit this week