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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought, growing in Russia, that such things are not possible in the West. (They were and to some extent still are quite popular here, though, with Fomenko and thousand other freaks.)

Do I look stupid?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not at all. We are all easy victims to propaganda.

Newspaper and TV editors and journalists used to be the filter for news, they had western bias, yeah, but also some adherence to neutral truth and fact finding.

Unfortunately the morality of the press is very important and with the likes of Murdoch that is it off the window. The internet makes for an easy place to search' facts' compatible with your gut feeling...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Not at all. We are all easy victims to propaganda.

Oh, not about that - that I know well since year 2020 when everybody went with "territorial integrity of Azerbaijan" over every agreement and every other principle and every other circumstance during Artsakh war.

This was equivalent to 1993 in Russia (no, I didn't see it, I was born in 1996), when it turned out that Yeltsin being the elected president means that what he does is democratic, despite the parliament, the constitution and the supreme court being on the other side.

It actually sucks more with people from the West because they often sincerely believe that "free world" bullshit, while Russians parroting propaganda know that it's propaganda, they are just cowards or picked a side.

The internet makes for an easy place to search’ facts’ compatible with your gut feeling…

Not limited to that. It's also that a lot of people in a lot of situations today are spectators, while 30 years ago they would be participants. It's not only the Web, it's the whole cultural shift which is catastrophic and if it's not reverted, we'll be nostalgic over WWII with the "at least then you could heroically die on the side of the good guys" mood.