No, you’re thinking of the US.

But they told me that these CIA/MI6/Mossad-backed Salafi Jihadists were moderate rebels. At least that terrible, horrible no good, very bad Bashar al-Assad is gone, though!

Capitalists will incorporate & commodify any^[1] trend/movement into their branding. 1971.

Armenia’s PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row

A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia’s leader to reveal his private parts to prove he is a Christian.

Earlier this week, Pashinyan told his 1.1 million followers on Facebook he was prepared to expose himself to the head of the Armenian Church and his spokesman, to prove they were wrong that he had been circumcised.

There would still be some downvotes, because some people downvote any positive news about BRICS.

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Propaganda

It helps to check which mods are active, meaning which ones have recently made posts/comments. Otherwise your message may never be read.

I wouldn’t assume he’ll quit. He’s already got infinite money, and he and his tech multi-billionaire peers seem more interested in investing in political power nowadays.

Holy cow can this guy write.

Please don’t troll instances. Stirring inter-instance drama is corrosive to the threadiverse.

Money doesn’t always work. It usually does, but not always. Bloomberg, having made himself a symbol of corporate wealth, was a little too on the nose.

There’d be fewer dead people if you’d done this sooner.

My first thought is that this may be for 1) political leverage and 2) propaganda. Leverage as a spoiler, to pressure/influence the other two parties in the election cycle. Propaganda is pretty self-explanatory, I think: getting into the news & podcaster cycles, throwing events, sending out mailers/flyers etc.

Some people (rich & poor) and interest groups/super PACs may fund it, so it won’t even have to be all his own money.

The world was already like this. What’s being destroyed is people’s false consciousness of the world, especially people in the imperial core.

Big tech is a constituent part of the US military-intelligence-industrial complex, of US imperialism. Corporate social media, for instance, are a constituent part of US domestic & international intelligence gathering, censorship, and propaganda. “Russiagate” was itself a psyop. Previously.

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A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

How do you not understand that most of us were raised under the same indoctrination and have experienced the same propaganda as everyone else here? We’re not the ones still propagandized by that upbringing, education, and media exposure. I suggest starting here to learn how to see past it.

Don’t be fooled by their seeming friendliness: they’re just trying to fatten us up.