cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58892455

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Donald Trump / White House has lost “Hearts and Minds” to Vlad Putin / Kremlin information warfare, KGB / FSB mental manipulation has won the Hybrid Warfare against USA / NATO

 

Rewind to December 2013 when this information warfare started

 

Please study this December 20, 2013 story in The Atlantic about Putin’s announcement of gender topics being the way he is going to manipulate the world in information warfare.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/

December 20, 2013
By Brian Whitmore
Vladimir Putin is calling on the conservatives of the world to unite—behind him. The Kremlin leader’s full-throated defense of Russia’s “traditional values” and his derision of the West’s “genderless and infertile”

 

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For Reference, see also: “This fusion of despotism and postmodernism, in which no truth is certain, is reflected in the craze among the Russian elite for neuro-linguistic programming and Eriksonian hypnosis: types of subliminal manipulation based largely on confusing your opponent” from October 2011.

  • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    What boggles my mind is that people actually spend LOTS of money to buy those award thingies and they send that to each other, the abject level of consoomerism.

    Actually that’s what people do to Mastodon and Lemmy operators, they donate money to the owners directly. I’m far more for that than psychologically manipulative advertising and marketing of the Edward Bernays style funding the site.

    I think Reddit in 2022 should have returned to open source like they were in earlier decades, fully release the source code, became a non-profit corporation, fully disclosed their accounting / financed like Beehaw does, an been run by donations only - renouncing advertising. Openly publish moderation logs and openly disclose what they are removing / ongoing SPAM attacks, etc. Be the the long-form (not short-length Twitter-length) Google Search hit-results website leader that appeals to book readers ( Read-it ) length consumers.

    Instead, they went the opposite of a non-profit Google Search engine destination for research and discussion and became a source of marketing and advertising content for Corporate America values / Elon Musk values.