so RT is the Russian government's official propoganda arm in the English speaking world and the United States. their focus is on news stories that are embarrassing to the US or highlight it's devolution into a war-mongering security state corrupt empire. they also obviously boost russia, despite it being the exact same thing. a screen grab from what's on their site today: they hire washed up news personalities like larry king and young contrrians like abby martin to provide "counter narratives" to what the mainstream saudi-arabian-finaced US media like Fox News churn out On my university campus they put up posters of US politicians looking scary and evil, like this one:  so my question is, why is this "allowed" to happen? Why do comcast, dish, et. al. carry their network when it's openly the propaganda of a decadent foreign government designed to undermine the politics and culture of the nations it airs in? Why is life such a confusing mess? thanks in advance (oh and also I work for the CIA and wrote this post in an attempt to undermine putin's undermining. it's an enormously sweet gig.)
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basically in russia they eat beets and have vodka there. it's just cold and snowy all the time so the only thing there is to do is make propaganda and send it to the outside world.
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May 17, 2016 23:33
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Where do you get your news from, OP?
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May 17, 2016 23:33
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SpaceAceJase posted:Where do you get your news from, OP? General Bullshit: WGBS Channel 4 - Your local news leader
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May 17, 2016 23:34
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SpaceAceJase posted:Where do you get your news from, OP?
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My parents have RT and I always end up watching it because I'll flip between Fox, CNN and MSNBC and they'll all be covering some dumb poo poo like "student expelled for yelling at professor" while RT is covering "hey guys there's a war going on thousands of people are dying". Yeah they're obviously biased but I'd rather have biased actual news than non-news
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May 17, 2016 23:34
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No, it stands for re-tweet.
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May 17, 2016 23:35
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Hell Yeah posted:basically in russia they eat beets and have vodka there. it's just cold and snowy all the time so the only thing there is to do is make propaganda and send it to the outside world. checks out
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May 17, 2016 23:35
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they're the more effective incarnation of Yakov Smirnoff
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May 17, 2016 23:35
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It's a paradox -- people are loving stupid, and regular news channels need to make money, so they pander to stupid people and show dumb poo poo. RT doesn't need to make money because it's a state-funded propaganda tool, so they can show actual news? Even if they're biased, plus who cares it's not like the American channels aren't biased anyway
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May 17, 2016 23:37
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AugmentedVision posted:My parents have RT and I always end up watching it because I'll flip between Fox, CNN and MSNBC and they'll all be covering some dumb poo poo like "student expelled for yelling at professor" while RT is covering "hey guys there's a war going on thousands of people are dying". Yeah they're obviously biased but I'd rather have biased actual news than non-news yeah, I definitely see the appeal, and it makes sense that the only critical news source about our govt would come from a nation outside it's sphere of influence. but, then you have to mentally factor in its own pro-russian bias and agenda, so it ends up having the same issues as fox, bbc, al-jazeera, cnn and all the others, with the added ick value of comin' atcha from an even MORE corrupt and anti-freedom and repressive nation (OR IS THAT JUST WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRAINED TO BELIEVE BY OUR WESTERN OVERLORDS?!?!?)
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May 17, 2016 23:38
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This sounds real serious im glad op is on the case myself.
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May 17, 2016 23:38
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AugmentedVision posted:My parents have RT and I always end up watching it because I'll flip between Fox, CNN and MSNBC and they'll all be covering some dumb poo poo like "student expelled for yelling at professor" while RT is covering "hey guys there's a war going on thousands of people are dying". Yeah they're obviously biased but I'd rather have biased actual news than non-news This is a really good point, and I hope people don't gloss over it.
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May 17, 2016 23:40
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Kuato posted:This sounds real serious im glad op is on the case myself. media is serious. American media created trump's successful candiacy by jacking off to his ~outrageous zaniness~, what-will-he-do-next-everybody??? , which is currently the most embarrassing thing happening in the world
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May 17, 2016 23:41
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AugmentedVision posted:Yeah they're obviously biased but I'd rather have biased actual news than non-news hey guys, check out this quality program from RT, the channel that brings you the REAL news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tydyTenCI
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May 17, 2016 23:45
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If you're a piece of poo poo, and another piece of poo poo tells you that you're poo poo, and provides evidence that you're poo poo, should you be able to negate his true statement because it also applies to him?
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May 17, 2016 23:45
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It's my life's dream to get into the RT stable of experts
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May 17, 2016 23:47
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npr said Russia was banning jehovahs witness today one up on America imo
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May 17, 2016 23:47
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:media is serious. American media created trump's successful candiacy by jacking off to his ~outrageous zaniness~, what-will-he-do-next-everybody??? , which is currently the most embarrassing thing happening in the world yeah there hasn't been like hundreds of pages of posts on SA explaining in detail actual logical reasons for supporting trump, everyone is voting for him for the memes, having an alternative to the established oligarchy is so embarrassing
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May 17, 2016 23:47
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AugmentedVision posted:yeah there hasn't been like hundreds of pages of posts on SA explaining in detail actual logical reasons for supporting trump, everyone is voting for him for the memes, having an alternative to the established oligarchy is so embarrassing ah yes, the billionare businessman, an adequate alternative to the corporate oligarchy
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May 17, 2016 23:49
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:ah yes, the billionare businessman, an adequate alternative to the corporate oligarchy Well he's probably not even a billionaire, so Hey!
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May 17, 2016 23:50
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:ah yes, the billionare businessman, an adequate alternative to the corporate oligarchy
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May 17, 2016 23:51
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btw it's worth noting that Trump's candidacy, the great transgender bathroom culture war of 2016, and ISIS are all a shadowplay cooked up by the elites to keep us all outraged and entertained and distracted from the fact that the world is only years away from being destroyed by global warming, all while they quietly bug the gently caress out to outerspace colonies on their trillion dollar lifeboats built by Elon Musk like in that woody harrelson/john cusack film
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May 17, 2016 23:53
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:ah yes, the billionare businessman, an adequate alternative to the corporate oligarchy You are right, we should wait until a plumber becomes a major party nominee. The fact that we for once can vote for a non-war-criminal is of no importance, stay the course.
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May 17, 2016 23:54
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AugmentedVision posted:yeah there hasn't been like hundreds of pages of posts on SA explaining in detail actual logical reasons for supporting trump, everyone is voting for him for the memes, having an alternative to the established oligarchy is so embarrassing How does one have logical reasons to support someone if every fact about them is a moving target unless you're just being an accelerationist?
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May 17, 2016 23:54
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:How does one have logical reasons to support someone if every fact about them is a moving target unless you're just being an accelerationist? Hillary is a war criminal. He is not a war criminal yet.
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May 17, 2016 23:55
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I think they are a more or less reliable source about things that don't involve Russia in any way of form. Obviously the journalists can't veer away from the government line in "matters of Russian interest", but they seem to have a pretty free hand otherwise. But then I also assume that you should take any form of news with a grain of salt.
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May 17, 2016 23:56
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Ibogaine posted:I think they are a more or less reliable source about things that don't involve Russia in any way of form. Obviously the journalists can't veer away from the government line in "matters of Russian interest", but they seem to have a pretty free hand otherwise. Remember, EVERYTHING involves Russia, because Russia must prove superiority to all other nations.
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May 17, 2016 23:57
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i once had a friend who thought RT was a good news source, but he also thought there was nothing wrong with committing identity fraud for a living
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AugmentedVision posted:You are right, we should wait until a plumber becomes a major party nominee. The fact that we for once can vote for a non-war criminal is of no importance, stay the course. come on man. trump has good qualities like 1) outsider 2)not a war criminal 3) probably not in the pockets of investment banking lobbyists like cruz and the clintons, but he also 1) built his support with a base of the far-right pogrom-faced xenophobes who would gladly genocide immigrant populations 2) did weird, manic things like acting as his own spokesperson 3) is just kind of a dickhead. these things all cancel out the positive qualities, which can be found in a million other better alternates that aren't international jokes.
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May 17, 2016 23:58
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:How does one have logical reasons to support someone if every fact about them is a moving target unless you're just being an accelerationist? Of you had to choose, would you rather have a box that could be anything or a box that you know is full of human feces?
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You don't have to think RT or Donald Trump are very good to think they are better than the alternatives.
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AugmentedVision posted:Hillary is a war criminal. He is not a war criminal yet. Ok so accelerationism.
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May 18, 2016 00:00
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AugmentedVision posted:Hillary is a war criminal. He is not a war criminal yet. also, considering that trump has not yet backed away from his statement that we should not only kill theorists but also kill their family's, he's basically campaigning on the platform of wanting to become a war criminal, so considering it seems like that's your single big qualifier, maybe don't support trump?
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:come on man. trump has good qualities like 1) outsider 2)not a war criminal 3) probably not in the pockets of investment banking lobbyists like cruz and the clintons, but he also 1) built his support with a base of the far-right pogrom-faced xenophobes who would gladly genocide immigrant populations 2) did weird, manic things like acting as his own spokesperson 3) is just kind of a dickhead. these things all cancel out the positive qualities, which can be found in a million other better alternates that aren't international jokes. None of those alternatives have any chance of being elected. Trump is going to win unless Hillary is indicted or dies first
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:come on man. trump has good qualities like B-23 are gonna be true of anyone who satisfies B-1, and to me B-23 are way less bad than A-23. Yes, the positives can be found in a million other better alternatives, but those better alternatives would not get nominated because they do not fit B-1.
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Mange Mite posted:None of those alternatives have any chance of being elected. Trump is going to win unless Hillary is indicted or dies first who said anything about "elected"? the alternate is armed revolution
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May 18, 2016 00:02
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I hope the posters in here arent russian to any conclusions
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:who said anything about "elected"? the alternate is armed revolution Lol yeah ok buddy. I thought we were being serious here which i guess is my fault more than yours
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