Russia's useful idiots
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2024
106 points (98.2% liked)
World News
38956 readers
1639 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News [email protected]
Politics [email protected]
World Politics [email protected]
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Under pressure from Nazis and tankies.
Red-Brown alliance.
Which are paid by ... guess
I think it is important to understand what gave them their recent power. The self imposed neoliberal austerity and self imposed paralysis of the current government of social demcorats, greens and liberals had pushed the small fissures that developed through rising inequality over the past 30 years in Germany into fully blown open cracks. Especially the failure to address the economic and social impact the Covid pandemic had swiftly followed by the huge inflation with Covid and the invasion shorty after, cracked a lot of people. Meanwhile the conservative CDU just went into full right to far right populist attack mode, actively sabotaging both the federal and local governments.
Russian has been playing its propaganda game for at least a decade before that, but instead of addressing the systemic issues in Germany, politics ever only chased the next few years and Merkel just smothered the country into sleep, while the problems grew.
Now the solution would be to address necessary investments, providing a vision for a secure and positive future. Instead the government runs after far right populist ideas, becoming ever more authoritarian and racist. And this only further helps the populists of AfD and BSW presenting these as "solutions".
Meanwhile Scholz declared "all is right with my style" while having worse popularity ratings than Schröder in his worst time. Gas-Gerhard ffs. Everybody hated that guy and kicked him out of office.
SPD, I know you're not interested in my opinion. But people need hope, not a damp towel. Even if that hope is a lie, they need it. AfD and the most self centered Sahra of all times thrive on the hope of the people without bringing anything to the table. I don't wanna live with chancellor Merz and minister of foreign affairs Höcke. Fucking do something! Or bring Mutti back. I'd even vote CDU (for Merkel, not Merz) for the first time in my life just to stomp the assholes back to the gutter.