Trump is a tool of the __ / nope, just a tool

[Smitty-48]

Making war against the media was the whole point, running against the media party was the path to power which the rest of the spinless cucks left open for Trump to take, the media can't be "charmed", you're either their creature or you're not, if not, that war is coming like clockwork anyways, so might as well just lean into it.

[Smitty-48]

For a moment there I thought Trump could launch a charm offensive, but I see now that I was wrong, the media has gone to "Soviet Union" levels of propagandistic hysteria, I've never seen them go this batshit crazy, ever.

CNN is the ZOMG Nuclear Hitler Channel, that's all they run, 24-7-3-6-5, total propaganda blackout, it's literally like something right out of the USSR.

If you've ever watched TASS from the Soviet Union during the Cold War; exactly like CNN is now. There's one enemy of the state, run a non stop propaganda blackout against it, nothing else on.

It's the same, right down to the talking head pundits of the Presidium; the Soviets had those too. TASS maintained the facade of being a real news channel, they had all the feexins, but only one enemy, one topic, one narrative, to the exclusion of anything else.

[Calculus Man]

How often did they change the enemy du jour?

[Smitty-48]

How often did they change the enemy du jour?

They never changed the overall enemy, it was always "America/The Imperialists", they would mix up the context, come at it in different ways, pick on certain sub-enemies within the camp of the main enemy, but the central narrative never changed.

[Smitty-48]

The Soviets had their version of the Red Scare, it was just the Red White and Blue Scare, and they just ran that 24hrs a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and it was so similar to this whole "An Underhanded Attack to Undermine America's Democracy!!!" hysteria, everything was "An Underhanded Attack to Undermine the Miracle of Socialist Labour!!!, same-same.

Didn't matter where they went, it was everywhere, TASS, Pravda, TV, Radio, on the walls, standing in line, riding the bus, coming over the loudspeakers, they had the totally immersive media saturation 1.0, they invented it.

Just watching CNN right now, and everytime they cut, to just another version of the same story, pounding it relentlessly, without any deviation, over and over, wash-rinse-repeat-wash-rinse-repeat-wash-rinse-repeat, well, as a Cold Warrior, who knew my enemy; kind of spooky.

[Smitty-48]

And the thing is, I can see the difference between our media and the American media, of course the CBC & Co will run their daily Trump bashing "ZOMG look at this clown" story, they ape the American media for the daily Trump headline, but then they move on, to the rest of the news, there's the obligatory Trump story, but it's not all encompassing, they check that box, then on to the rest, it's all liberal biased of course, it's all tainted by liberal propaganada, none the less, it's not a total blackout to the exclusion of everything but the singular enemy of the state...

...but CNN, wow, that is Orwellian, dictionary definition of. Somebody has touched Big Brother in a sensitive spot, and he is losing his shit over it.

[TheReal_ND]

Somebody has touched Big Brother in a sensitive spot, and he is losing his shit over it.

Heh

[Calculus Man]

Let me ask you something, Smitty. Do you think it's a coincidence that the first country to go Marxist and subject its citizens to that degree of propaganda now has a right-wing dictator in charge?

I have seen so many people pushed to the right by the American media, it's astounding. Sure, the rabble takes that crap literally. But the thinkers and the people of action just seem insulted by it. People I once considered "live-and-let-live" moderates are frothing at the mouth against cultural marxism.

Maybe future historians will write books about the diminishing returns of propaganda past a certain point? Or then again, maybe the rabble will win.

[Smitty-48]

Let me ask you something, Smitty. Do you think it's a coincidence that the first country to go Marxist and subject its citizens to that degree of propaganda now has a right-wing dictator in charge?

Putin is not Right-Wing, he's a Bolshevik through n' through, he masturbates over the Hammer n' Sickle, the whole point of Putin is; we're sorry, we didn't mean it, please, please, please, Comrade Stalin, we want you back.

Under Putin, Stalin has been rehabilitated, as a Hero of the Russian Nationalists... even though he was Georgian, and hated Russians with a passion, why you think he had so many killed?

But whatevs, who cares, he's back, baby! Comrade Stalin! Woooooo!




Trust me, guy, my Russian neighbours; they are Right Wing Nutjobs, like Mike Pencian Right Wing Nutjobs, and they hate Putin, with a passion.

[TheReal_ND]

I think it's possible Russians may look at the high point of the USSR circa 1950-60 with some nostalgia. I doubt it was as bad as one might think to hear another country tell it during their brief period where they were robbing Peter to pay Paul and it still worked. Not sure why they would venerate Stalin though as I don't think it was him that was in power during the space race. Kind of ironic how America propped them up so fucking hard.