Propaganda is usually truthful or exaggerated truth. It’s the framing that is important. Some facts are focused on. Some facts are omitted.

I acknowledge that Russia, China and the DPRK have made mistakes and even done things that are deeply questionable. But I’m interested in comparing their mistakes or misguided actions to those of the most powerful military empire on earth. The one involved in hundreds of military actions and dozens of coups since its inception. The one with the largest per capita prison population on earth. The one which controls many of the world’s financial levers.

There is a difference in the scale of their mistakes or bad actions. Propaganda distorts that difference of scale. It focuses on the crimes of the “enemies” / “axis of evil” / “rogue states” but doesn’t examine context or culpability of the empire. They’ll choose one conflict, downplay 9 others, and give a one-sided view of that one conflict.

That’s how propaganda works. Every state produces propaganda. One state produces billions of dollars of propaganda each year.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is straight up State department propaganda.

Is that David Frum, speechwriter to the Bush Jr administration? Writer of speeches about the axis of evil? Writer of speeches to whip up frenzy for an invasion of Iraq? An invasion based on lies? That David Frum?

Calculator?! Those thieving, energy-sucking piles of garbage! Abacus till I die!

But seriously, AI is insidious in how it data mines us to give us answers, and data mines our questions to build profiles of users. I distrust assurances of anonymity by big data corpos.

Thanks for your thoughtful answer. I agree that so much is at stake with diet. It all changed for me when I hit 40. I’m going to have to think about the manageable pieces of diet you mentioned. That appeals to me as practical.

The article states that there is no evidence that this is caused by Russia. But then goes on to speculate that it’s caused by Russia. Journalistic standards have fallen.

Why do you think it is especially difficult to follow this diet now? I keep trying to implement it myself but find the high effort required difficult to sustain, given other demands on my attention and will power.

When they die … Of natural causes… Like a swift knife chop to the neck.

ISTG stands for It’s Studio Giblets

Ironically this is probably made by Biden’s team to scare people into voting Biden because those Russkis are tryin to steal our 'lection!

Would be funny if Boeing started cutting corners with their hitmen, too.

Went downstairs and had a cup

That was very amusing.

Reminds me of buying coffee at franchises in China. They won’t take cash. You have to have the app, and the banking app.

I have to hand my phone to a coffee shop worker to scroll through infinite options and then look at my banking app because… It’s more convenient!!!

What if we didn’t even have ads on the internet?

That’s because you haven’t tried cool ranch yet

Purchased upvotes and downvotes that make criticism invisible

Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton, which is book 2. Book 1 in the series is Pandora’s Star.

Space opera.

I’m listening to a 44 hour audio book on YouTube.

Unfortunately they would quickly be replaced by their heirs who would continue to employ the same business people to manage their empires. We need to change the system at the root, not just chop off the top.