Mega Man Star Force 3 has a film studio where humans and the sentient AI partners/assistants many people in-universe possess (called "Wizards" as in "installation wizard") work alongside eachother as equals. It also has a "Director Wizard", which I already thought while playing was a bad idea. Now I'm reading this and going
Overall, that paper is mostly the same as this one, comparing "tankie" subreddits to demsoc and anarchists ones and drawing the same conclusions about "muh extremism".
I then noticed this claim:
[The idea of tankies dismissing the Uyghur genocide] is strengthened by reports of r/GenZedong (a tankie subreddit) showing aggression towards Uyghurs online.
Seemed suspicious. They cite a Time article about harrassment on Reddit that mentions in passing:
In subreddits about China like r/sino and r/genzedong, users attack Uyghurs and promote violence against them.
The sources for these two claims are two posts on r/chinareddits. This is like Ethan Klein sourcing all his Hasan footage from r/destiny.
The post for the latter claim has been deleted by the creator, but for "users [verbally] attacking Uyghurs" the evidence is this:
Users piling on a "Uyghur activist" who works in motherfuckin' Guantanamo Bay.
And just this one person, so talking about harrassmnt of "Uyghurs" plural is unsubstantiated extrapolation.
[Jeremy Blackburn's] award-winning research into understanding toxic behaviour, hate speech, and fringe and extremist Web communities has been covered in the press by The Washington Post, the New York Times, and Infowars, among others.
Bild is Germany's most-read newspaper. Their owner is Axel Springer SE, this is from their website (auto-translated) about what values its employees are expected to have:
Axel Springer's offices in Hamburg were once bombed by the RAF (Red Army Faction).
The name just makes me think of how in Mega Man Battle Network 3 "Alpha" was the original Internet but it became cancerous, turned everything into a shapeless blob and had to be sealed away and replaced with a new Net.
I ended up reading the article beneath because I enjoyed this one and the man seemed cool, I end up finding bits like this:
Eastern countries, [...] tend to download [sic] or even cover-up instances of foreign intrusions into their systems, treating them as a source of embarrassment.
One point of note here is how quickly the US public lost their appetite for supporting Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s invasion. Much of this sentiment was driven by disinformation feeding into people [sic] fears about their own economic situation, as well as the unrealistic prospect of [...] nuclear war or WW3. Having seen how easy it was for Russia to degrade US support for Ukraine purely via information warfare, China may see the very real threat they pose to US infrastructure as a potential win condition.
When you look at previous wars involving the US, it’s evident that it has never been realistic nor possible to defeat the US military, but a viable strategy to just wait them out. There’s plenty such examples from Vietnam to the Afghanistan. Eventually, the public loses their appetite for war, and the US withdraws its forces.
Western Ukraine moment. What you said is true, there's no disagreement here.
What I meant to say is that outside of Western Ukraine, few people were buying into the rehabilitation campaign because they had no interest in a crusade against Russia that would just rock the boat. Foreign propaganda campaigns only work if the populace is interested in the narrative.
Then the invasion/SMO happened "anyway" in their eyes and people went: "Maybe the nationalists talking about Russia as an existential threat were right after all". I called it "knee-jerk" because it's grounded in little other than "Russia bad, Ukraine good". This is my explanation for the sudden surge between the 2021 and 2022 polls.
Domestic efforts with support or tolerance from Western governments have engineered the parameters of political debate since 1991, that's of course undeniable. I'm just a little wary of chalking it all up to Western interference as it makes the average Ukrainian sound like a gullible dupe without agency.
No news sources bring him up it seems, they only mention Macron and Zelensky. My guess is that it's just one of the White House aides.