American soft power has been crippled worldwide. You really have to ask yourself when the moderators of Wikipedia are going to go ahead and edit the Cold War page.
People have been joking about fake as hell NGOs being used for espionage and misinformation for decades, but its weird they they're actually throwing away their leverage across the board.
Unless they plan to just move the funding to another organization like the CIA.
"any media outlet, no matter how big an empire it is, that is not owned or funded by the state" is not the common definition of "independent media" (it's not even the definition given in the hyperlinked definition). "Independence" in this context refers to journalistic independence.
the only media i care about is people or outlets supported by small donations from regular people & lots of transparency about their sources. if otherwise, they can go fuck off
i love mintpressnews. their links were and probably still are banned on facebook and instagram and probably more places. the great firewall of the US is too good
Their links are banned on .world as well.
.stormfront Putting the Fed in fediverse as always.
I wonder if they're really that stupid to give up this super-efficient means of soft power over some progressive things they've done or intentionally handing influence in parts of the world to Russia for a bit of money for themselves while taking a calculated risk of maybe having to retake control militarily (which is more costly but could be a problem for the next admin).
Part of the problem is that sufficient wealth seems to destroy people's understanding of consequence. They don't experience them very often, and so reach a point where they can simply pursue whatever their feelings tell them to do and the world magically restructures itself to allow them to do so.
Combine this with how the incentives of the social system result in the people who are most likely to pursue a selfish course being the most financially successful- you get a recipe for short-sighted, ignorant and self-important nonsense.
Trump is a Russian agent. It immediately explains everything he does.
It's never a good idea to confuse shared class interests with a wacky conspiracy theory.
If Trump is indeed a Russian agent, why not make him use the soft power to actually help shift the narrative in favor of Russia?
Based if true! Death to Amerikkka!
The Russians aren't stupid enough to rely on and big-mouthed idiot like Trump.
An American in America does something stupid in a deeply American way:
BlueAnon liberals: "this is clearly the fault of foreigners!"
It's hard for me to believe that Occam's Razor applies here. It's hard for me to believe that someone this stupid can become president and think he's doing something good for America.
So he became president to do something bad to America, and he does it in the way Putin says to.
It’s hard for me to believe that Occam’s Razor applies here. It’s hard for me to believe
LOL! Occam's Razor is a universal principle, it applies everywhere. Ohhh but, "it's hard for you to believe", never mind then, clearly let's just reject all reason.
So he became president to do something bad to America, and he does it in the way Putin says to.
Amazing how shitlibs have decided to create their own version of Qanon.
Ok buddy dude
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Russia isnt that big or powerful, and is much less so today than 2 years ago.
While it is true that the tail doesn't wag the dog, it's false to claim Russia isn't big and is shrinking.
In terms of GDP PPP it's the 4th biggest economy in the entire world, bigger than Japan. The war has put a dent in their European exports but domestic markets are booming.
It doesn't explain his anti-China stance. China is an important economic and civic partner with Russia, it's a very strong relationship.
It does when you realize that China isn't Russia's partner, it's the dishonest business partner you do business with when you have no other options
Racism.
What? China is the largest trading partner for the great majority of the world. It’s the partner of first resort.
Though I’m sure some of them will find new funding through whatever new channels the Trump administration builds.
Doesn't every government do this?
No? You're not going to find a huge network of propaganda outlets funded by New Zealand, or Botswana, or Ireland, etc.
Not America, the greatest country in the world according to Lemmy.world, at least they must think that to always uncritically consume their propaganda.
I don’t usually look at which instance a news article comes from, but in lemmy world I can tell it’s them by the comments. They are a little creepy.
.world is if the white dudes from get out had their own instance.
I used to think people who used the phrase “blue maga” were trolling a little bit, but that’s what they are politically over there. Joe Biden was the only candidate who could win, even when it was obvious that he has dementia or something.
Yeah but this is a pick on the US post, and that thinking ruins their narrative.
Only one country has over 800+ external military bases. The rest of the world combined only has ~20.
The US is easily the most evil country in world history.
It's more that as the World Hegemon, the US' propaganda network is far more extensive and developed, and defunding USAID is exposing that side.
Yeah sadly the consolidated the more nefarious regime change part into the state department.
Pick on the US? Lmao oh no, the poor widdle fascist empire. Leave the Nazis alone.
All for-profit media is state run.
That's factually innacurate
That's factually inaccurate.
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