Why the U.S. is very unlikely to become Russia-style authoritarian any time soon

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

1 hour ago, Daniel Balan said:

Finally someone sane and wise on this sub forum and not just anti west propagandists. 

I've yet to enounter on this subforum someone who I can criticize the west with, that hasn't a BRICS agenda and rhetoric. Because of these propagandists that so nonchalantly spew their iliberal agenda 24/7, I can't genuinely criticise the west because I have to defend it from the bullshit that comes from the ones that parrot the propaganda of the BRICS world. These people didn't exist like 6 years ago. 6 years ago the propaganda wasn't yet been instilled in their mind with all this garbage that these guys are now reciting day after day. Since the pandemic the western informational ecosystem has been hijacked by propaganda funded from the pockets of those who are very irritated by liberal democracies. I wouldn't mind if this was just propaganda, but this is actually electoral campaign because across the west in every western country there are illiberal puppets of the authoritarian world that will be voted precisely by those whose minds have been hijacked by this vile propaganda. 

I want to criticize the west so badly because it has so many flaws, so much corruption, i want to settle our disputes in the liberal democratic family, not with the enemies of liberal democracy. The zone has been flood with so much shit and the worst part is that quite intelligent people on this forum have fallen for the foreign authoritarian propaganda. Such intelligent people are thinking and reasoning and speaking in the exact way the Kremlin and Beijing want. I'm 100% sure that if Putin or Xi would read this subforum they would smile to see how effective their propaganda apparatus works. 

Yeah, I've noticed, it's always been pretty blatant, in-your-face propaganda. But with the recent rise of AI-generated images, text, and videos, it's reached a whole new level. Now they can create entire propaganda videos featuring fake people or impersonators of real individuals "confessing" to things they never did. It's turning all our media into a cesspool of misinformation.

Just take a look at this video from The Times of India, it's clearly AI-generated. It supposedly depicts a Ukrainian soldier who fought in Pokrovsk, but it's easy to tell it's fake once you notice the unnatural movement patterns and the monotone voice. They probably removed the Sora logo, and that alone was enough to convince a lot of people it was real. Most people really are that simple.

 

 

India, clearly doesn’t give much shits and plays its own game, since it's strong enough to do so. That might partly explain why one of their media outlets published such an obvious fake. Or maybe it's just incompetence and amateurism. Would not surprise me in this case LOL

[Daniel Balan]

1 hour ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Yeah, I've noticed, it's always been pretty blatant, in-your-face propaganda. But with the recent rise of AI-generated images, text, and videos, it's reached a whole new level. Now they can create entire propaganda videos featuring fake people or impersonators of real individuals "confessing" to things they never did. It's turning all our media into a cesspool of misinformation.

Just take a look at this video from The Times of India, it's clearly AI-generated. It supposedly depicts a Ukrainian soldier who fought in Pokrovsk, but it's easy to tell it's fake once you notice the unnatural movement patterns and the monotone voice. They probably removed the Sora logo, and that alone was enough to convince a lot of people it was real. Most people really are that simple.

 

 

India, clearly doesn’t give much shits and plays its own game, since it's strong enough to do so. That might partly explain why one of their media outlets published such an obvious fake. Or maybe it's just incompetence and amateurism. Would not surprise me in this case LOL

This is some low level propaganda, but most of the times it is really vile and mischievous in its forms. It tingles your reptile brain so much, it hits every corner of your brain. It is astonishing how well polished and how well crafted the anti-liberal democracy propaganda is working. There are multiple types of propaganda, it is low level propaganda that is very effective for dumb normies and there is also extremely sophisticated propaganda that works on the inteligent, the intellectuals like the guys we have here on this subforum. You can say many things about the guys that defend China and Russia on this subforum, but you can't say that they are not highly intelligent. 

This works precisely because the west has in deed many problems, it is also corrupt, in its past has done extreme damage to the world like the nuking of japan, the genocide in Iraq, the endless wars during the cold war and after, the backing of Israel of their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the attack on Iran this summer etc. The west is having tons of issues and is no saint at all, quite the opposite. But that being said, the west also leads in every metrics when it comes to freedom, safety for the individuals, education, healthcare, welfare, etc. TL;DR Basically the west takes the most care of its citizens, more so than any other side. Also the west isn't a monolith. I'd say Europe and its liberal democracy are the best in the world right now when it comes to human rights and how the government behaves to its citizens. Europe treats its citizens like an angel compared to how Russia and China are treating their citizens. Europe is heaven on earth for the individual citizen, compared to BRICS. Europe also hasn't been the architect of the wars and the atrocities that the west as a whole did, that was America, Europe nuked nobody and European countries were the only countries in the so called west that supported Palestine. Europe joined the US in its wars because the US has saved our backs 2 times in the 20th century and without America, Europe would have been either a soviet satelite or lebensraum for the nazis, so we Europeans don't have much say when it comes to helping the US in its stupid wars because if we don't help them, they won't help us when the Russians will come once again after us. 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Daniel Balan