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EightBitBlood russia is not the only country in the world that spend billions in propaganda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1962%E2%80%931979)
No shit.
Is it only the biggest spender of propaganda that makes them bad? Or is all propaganda bad? Maybe it's what propaganda does to a country that's the problem.
You know - just like how the propaganda Trump used for his US Covid response killed more Americans than anywhere else in the world. Actually, it's now killed more Americans than all the wars they've ever faught in combined.
That's the propaganda I'm fighting. Mostly because it killed friends and family.
My country is now radicalized not just into voting away their own rights, but their own lives. The dead and suffering are now ignored by the corporate controlled media, to the point where Trump was elected again despite fucking up everything he ever touched and killing over a million citizens.
Russia is now targeting Canada and Europe using these same tactics, and if those citizens are too resilient, well thankfully he's about to step over Ukraine to get there too.
But sure, let's talk about who's spending money on propaganda instead of what each kind of propaganda is doing to the world. Definitley makes for a good strawman.
Covid is not gone in the US. Here's the CDC data:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
Thousands are still dying from it every day in March of 2025. Largly due to the poor adoption rate of the vaccine due to propaganda.
Good job admitting you've turned a blind eye to thousands dying every day. The loss of life only counts when it isn't American lives right?
You're a really great example of the effects of propaganda making anyone intolerant.
But do go on about the spending. Maybe you can figure out how much each American death costs Russia per capita, and compare it to how much they spent to make you apathetic about it.
You can't reason with that person.
They're a Russian troll.
I'm aware. I got them to shut up. And I distracted them from doing whatever the FSB tasked them with.
They only way you can fight trolls like that is by wasting their time. Hopefully in a way they realize their work isn't worth the pay.
(But appreciate the heads up!)
Yeah.
Check out my last chat with them.
I completely even called out how it's gonna go, and he played it to the letter.
It's always the same with those fuckers. All one can do — just like you said — is to waste their time and piss them off a bit.
You might enjoy using вахтера as an insult against them. ~ "Watchman" / "janitor".
There's a thing called Синдром вахтёра, "Watchman's/janitor syndrome" sort of. The connotations don't translate well, as you can't perhaps see from how my translator considers this site. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%82%D1%91%D1%80%D0%B0
Use your own translator:
Oh hell yeah. Thank you for this! I was unaware of the insult. Great to learn, and much appreciate the info! Glad to know you're fighting the good fight as well. That was a great time hilariously good exchange you had with them. You called it out perfectly haha
Haha.
I'm not.. inexperienced.
Honestly, Lemmy is infested with Russians.
It's sad how any openness or non-monopolies, slight lack of total moderation and actually trusting the people instantly gets shot down by Russia.
I have a real world equivalent; Gotland.
A large Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. Sweden completely demilitarised it at one point. And instantly it got infested with Russian "tourists" and started getting Russian subs passing by.
Sweden re-established a base on the island for this reason.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-boost-military-gotland-amid-russia-fears-2022-04-29/
I'm Finnish. I'm trained for war, literally. I mean, 75% of Finnish adult males are, but, still. I'm ready.
Fucking come at me, Vanja