We literally have a user named @Z_Poster365 who said yesterday "I’m [sic] yet to see a single instance of official Russian sources saying anything false or deceptive since the start of this operation."
https://hexbear.net/post/197669/comment/2488038
In that comment chain they then sarcastically said "All information is the same and it’s all propaganda and trying to make any sense of it is futile, nothing can be known." But then further down in the same chain they also said "How about you learn your place as westoids, your role is to destroy your empire from within. That’s it. It is never, ever to criticize the targets of your imperialist empire and align with them. To use rhetorical tricks to obfuscate the truth of the one-sided evil that must be destroyed"
So which is it? Is it true that westerners can somehow gain truth through critical assessment of sources, or that westerners are unable to be critical of the positions of those struggling against western empire? If both these statements are simultaneously true, then the seeking out the truth about the situation is purely an academic and recreational exercise since the application of that knowledge (i.e. making a critique) is considered unacceptable.
It's an incoherent framing with the goal of portraying Russia positively and shielding it from criticism.
Vaguely implying all Russian media is propaganda is not assessing any truth. It’s repeating Liberal ideology. It’s mystifying, it does not lead to any further understanding but is a thought-terminating knee-jerk Liberal chauvinist reflex
Except I'm not vaguely implying anything about Russian media. You made a strong statement that you have seen no false or deceptive reporting about what's been happening. Those are your words.
Some of the responses to you in that comment chain clearly show that isn't the case with the example of the Moskva coverage.
What makes you think it's not just as bad? Every time I've touched pro-Russian news sourced they always presented info that makes Russia seem like the good guy and as the clearly winning side.
How am I, with limited knowledge of how warfare works, supposed to ascertain what is propaganda and what isn't?
Its all going to be propaganda. That's not the problem, we're all smart enough to realize this.
But which propaganda is more truthful and which is less truthful is where the money is. Western sources are doing a bang up job of making shit up whole cloth right now and Russian sources have less reason to.
Russian source exaggerated event, while western source put up ghost of Kiev, snake island, glorifying Nazi and put them on the front page, give Ukraine hope that they going to take back crimea. I know which is worst out of the two
I just don't think trying to figure out which is "worse" is useful. I think we can get more utility out of trying to figure out "what the propaganda is for" from our sources.
My bias is pro-colonized of the world and anti-imperialist, you got me. I should be more neutral and consider the empire the same as it’s colonies, you are right! Why didn’t I think of that?
Next time I’ll make sure I don’t prioritize the interests of the workers over that of the bourgeois either
I touched pro Russian propaganda and most of them is just exaggerating event, not fabricated ghost of Kiev, snake island , put up illusion that Ukraine going to take back crimea and Donbass, put video games footage as war footage. At that point, western propaganda just putting up fake news
I'm not saying anything about one being more bad than the other or them being equally bad.
You're allowed to say that your claim that I linked is too strong in retrospect but that we nonetheless should consider Russian media coverage to be better than Western coverage. (Whether or not I agree with that is a different question.)
Because that what the Russian said, and they slowly denazify Ukraine, why don’t you get the rest of my other comment saying that the invasion was a huge mistake and Putin go crazy instead of cherry pick?
Who support Russian invasion in here? If it somewhere on Twitter or shite, then you gotta ask those peoples.
We literally have a user named @Z_Poster365 who said yesterday "I’m [sic] yet to see a single instance of official Russian sources saying anything false or deceptive since the start of this operation."
https://hexbear.net/post/197669/comment/2488038
In that comment chain they then sarcastically said "All information is the same and it’s all propaganda and trying to make any sense of it is futile, nothing can be known." But then further down in the same chain they also said "How about you learn your place as westoids, your role is to destroy your empire from within. That’s it. It is never, ever to criticize the targets of your imperialist empire and align with them. To use rhetorical tricks to obfuscate the truth of the one-sided evil that must be destroyed"
So which is it? Is it true that westerners can somehow gain truth through critical assessment of sources, or that westerners are unable to be critical of the positions of those struggling against western empire? If both these statements are simultaneously true, then the seeking out the truth about the situation is purely an academic and recreational exercise since the application of that knowledge (i.e. making a critique) is considered unacceptable.
It's an incoherent framing with the goal of portraying Russia positively and shielding it from criticism.
Vaguely implying all Russian media is propaganda is not assessing any truth. It’s repeating Liberal ideology. It’s mystifying, it does not lead to any further understanding but is a thought-terminating knee-jerk Liberal chauvinist reflex
Except I'm not vaguely implying anything about Russian media. You made a strong statement that you have seen no false or deceptive reporting about what's been happening. Those are your words.
Some of the responses to you in that comment chain clearly show that isn't the case with the example of the Moskva coverage.
The original comment that started that thread was implying it by calling Russian media propaganda that was just as bad as western propaganda.
It’s not “just as bad” and if you think that you are a chauvinist. It’s that simple
What makes you think it's not just as bad? Every time I've touched pro-Russian news sourced they always presented info that makes Russia seem like the good guy and as the clearly winning side.
How am I, with limited knowledge of how warfare works, supposed to ascertain what is propaganda and what isn't?
Its all going to be propaganda. That's not the problem, we're all smart enough to realize this.
But which propaganda is more truthful and which is less truthful is where the money is. Western sources are doing a bang up job of making shit up whole cloth right now and Russian sources have less reason to.
Russian source exaggerated event, while western source put up ghost of Kiev, snake island, glorifying Nazi and put them on the front page, give Ukraine hope that they going to take back crimea. I know which is worst out of the two
I just don't think trying to figure out which is "worse" is useful. I think we can get more utility out of trying to figure out "what the propaganda is for" from our sources.
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I asked a legitimate question. It seems you're just biased and don't really have the answer.
My bias is pro-colonized of the world and anti-imperialist, you got me. I should be more neutral and consider the empire the same as it’s colonies, you are right! Why didn’t I think of that?
Next time I’ll make sure I don’t prioritize the interests of the workers over that of the bourgeois either
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Ok so if Iran and Hezbollah invaded and liberated Palestine you would call them “imperialist capitalists” and condemn their “aggressive invasion”?
Or is that different somehow? Because you have internalized Russophobia
I touched pro Russian propaganda and most of them is just exaggerating event, not fabricated ghost of Kiev, snake island , put up illusion that Ukraine going to take back crimea and Donbass, put video games footage as war footage. At that point, western propaganda just putting up fake news
I'm not saying anything about one being more bad than the other or them being equally bad.
You're allowed to say that your claim that I linked is too strong in retrospect but that we nonetheless should consider Russian media coverage to be better than Western coverage. (Whether or not I agree with that is a different question.)
Also when the invasion first started you made a post saying "Denazification begin" which I read as being supportive.
Yes, based. De-nazification is happening and it is good
Because that what the Russian said, and they slowly denazify Ukraine, why don’t you get the rest of my other comment saying that the invasion was a huge mistake and Putin go crazy instead of cherry pick?