one of the few sane takes I've seen recently on social media. I'm gonna add why I think the BRICS (because it's always not being just Russia, but Iran and China as well) propaganda works so well: It's really simple: the bots are exploiting our significantly higher free speech while clamping down on their own criticism within those countries. It's really easy to do this when you can stop your own citizens from criticizing. I remember this from Communist Yugoslavia and I've been trying to explain people how obvious it is and practically nobody understands that they are tapdancing for the exact enemy that wants to destroy them. Look how nice and clean Moscow looks! Well.. so did fucking Belgrade in Yugoslavia and so is Pyongyang in North Korea ffs! All the big cites have always been monuments to dictators. "Look how united are Russians!" screams a Western man not knowing a Russian can't say much else but to praise the government. Everyone else is locked up already. This is btw why we have Westerners demonstrating with fcking pictures of a dead Iranian dictator who just a month ago killed 35000 of their own citizens, while Iranians are literally DJing on the roofs of their houses while the bombs and rockets are crashing IRGC. They get it. We don't. We can't understand the difference between the 'one-opinion state' (aka only one opinion allowed) and what we have here. Here we have whole media centres operating exclusively for propaganda of non-western bullshittery. And it doesn't even matter what kind as long as it sees the West as 'evil'. When I realized this to be an actual fact I decided for myself that I'm gonna become a radically self-interested person, by which I mean I'm gonna err on the side of Western ideals because, well.. I'm fucking living here! It really is that obvious once you read through all the mud that is being thrown at you daily
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