Our propagandists are doing the best they can, but they just don't have the material they need. It's really bad and it alienates all even the most lukewarm skeptics, who feel about the US govt as textbooks teach you to feel about the USSR. Putin has material, his enemies are literally satanic and he can just say so, just parrot what real people already think and say. Can simply tell the truth about us in a way that distracts from his own sins.
When we copycat that tactic, but with a bed of bullshit, it sounds like everything else we say: bullshit, bc we burned out our bullshitting machines circa 2017. It's just a mountain of poop now. By contrast to Putin our own govts have to call a vast majority of its taxpayers evil terrorists to help perpetuate 1+1=3 and tons of Americans are tacitly hoping for some disastrous event to unseat their own leaders without swirling endless pleb lives down the toilet.
I think Putin is evil but it is hard to believe he is THAT evil, largely because the gross intensity of modern western evil would be hard for me to believe if I hadn't experienced it myself over a lifetime.
Our propagandists are doing the best they can, but they just don't have the material they need. It's really bad and it alienates all even the most lukewarm skeptics, who feel about the US govt as textbooks teach you to feel about the USSR. Putin has material, his enemies are literally satanic and he can just say so, just parrot what real people already think and say. Can simply tell the truth about us in a way that distracts from his own sins.
When we copycat that tactic, but with a bed of bullshit, it sounds like everything else we say: bullshit, bc we burned out our bullshitting machines circa 2017. It's just a mountain of poop now. By contrast to Putin our own govts have to call a vast majority of its taxpayers evil terrorists to help perpetuate 1+1=3 and tons of Americans are tacitly hoping for some disastrous event to unseat their own leaders without swirling endless pleb lives down the toilet.
I think Putin is evil but it is hard to believe he is THAT evil, largely because the gross intensity of modern western evil would be hard for me to believe if I hadn't experienced it myself over a lifetime.