Propagandists make up obviously false nonsense, and then disseminate it into the general population. In just a few "hops", it becomes so widespread that it acquires a kind of psychic weight, such that it feels real, even though it actually isn't.
Me: Yeah, Red Scare, McCarthyism, Domino Theory, War on Drugs, War on Terror, Iran nuclear weapons program, etc... checks out
This is a Russian technique.
:stalin-stressed:
Fuck the end game: any critique of the status quo is a Russian technique
Post one: Putin occupies the same exact psychic space in these libs minds as Satan himself for Christians. He is the font of all that is evil in the world, even within our own minds.
Post two: Putin hacked my brain and turned me into a bimbo catgirl OwO
Funny, because in a way it's true. Putin can sit back, do nothing, and liberals will still see him everywhere. Every unfavorable story is Russian disinformation, every critic from the left is a Russian asset, every Republican works for Russia...
It's kind of genius (in a bad way) actually, the feds just have to sit back and relax while the brainworms do most of the work.
Can confirm. Everything fucked here but at least I can take comfort in the fact that fsb seems to be very capable of striking fear into the hearts of US libs witn their 1337 haxxor skillz.
Sorry, I just saw the AmericanFascism2020 and my mind just went blank.
Should be AmericanFascism1776.
Imagine not knowing that the US was always a facist country.
Friend, this is chapo.chat where it’s okay to include the Democrat presidents in the precursors that led to Trump
Yeah they make it obvious how much of the liberal dislike of trump is aesthetics.
Fuck it.
The whole "American revolution" was just a bunch of rich assholes that wanted to have even more power, land, and money.
fascism is a product of the 20th century created in reaction to communism, america could not have been a fascist country in 1776
There was a mixed class composition to the American "revolution." There were significant renter and smallholder components. Good examples would be the Ethan Allen boys kidnapping the governor of New York or the Boston Rent riots.
The Mercantile and slave owning class was able to channel this energy with promises to seize Indian land and lower the price of goods. Add in nascent patriotism and you've got a revolutionary cocktail.
Also, not only the US participated in the war. The French ruling classes saw it as an opportunity to weaken England's imperial hold, and the Mohawk fought with their American allies against the English who were encroaching on their land from the north.
The Mercantile class were the main organizers, but calling petite bourgeois grievance the driving force is unfair.
Edit: there was also a sort of duel (or even quintuple) power situation to begin with where there were the colonial governors (both domestic and english appointments, multi class democratic assemblies, colonial outposts, indigenous power formations, French holdings... that was rife with contradictions. The mercantile grievances wouldn't have had traction without that.
Broke: Trump is a fascist who was elected as a result of a combination of a broken electoral system, poor opposition choices, and existing political tensions in America.
Woke: Trump was a fascist who was elected because of racism
Bespoke: Trump is a fascist who was put in to power via a grand worldwide conspiracy (but not the jews, that's the one difference) to de-legitimize America. tRump Russia FBI Comey Mueller DRUMPF COVFEFE!
If you believe this - give up
If you think Putin has hacked your brain, why even try to combat it
This shit is stupider than Qanon
This is so funny because I distinctly remember seeing footage during the height of the Russiagate farce from Trump rallies of conservatives wearing shirts with the text "I'd rather be Russian than a democrat."
First Putin, then Moscow Mitch, recently I saw Leningrad Lindsey, and that's going too far m8 jfc
The subtext to this being “why won’t you inferior Americans believe us when we say [insert neoliberal policy] made your lives better???”
"Wittingly or unwittingly Trump uses an advanced secret Russian propaganda technique known as Bald-Faced Lying."
