Årets NHL-sesong godt i gang. Fleste folka her inne mer på fotballen. Derfor har jeg satt opp en liste over hvilket NHL-lag som passer deg, basert på fotballaget ditt:
Americans absorb information the same way a peasant in antiquity did.
They hear rumors about it, maybe 1 or 2 vague, half-true stories from others, and just kinda guess the rest.
If you asked a provincial Roman who assassinated Caesar, they would have had a similar reply.
How Russian propaganda works abroad, in one sentence per layer:
For the right: "Russia defends tradition." For the left: "NATO caused this." For the pacifist: "Weapons prolong war." For the cynic: "Everyone lies equally." For the tired: "It's complicated."
Five contradictory messages, one output: do nothing.
Russian propaganda doesn't need you to love Moscow. It needs you paralyzed — and it has a script for whichever ideology you brought to the table.
Whenever a take ends in "therefore, inaction," check the return address.
Tucker Carlson is one of the reasons I have lost so much respect for a large part of the American public. Not simply because he exists, but because millions of people willingly treat this grotesque propagandist as some kind of fearless truth-teller.
On Ukraine, he has spent years doing the Kremlin’s work for free, or at least pretending it is free. He downplays Russian aggression, strips Ukraine of any agency, blames NATO and Washington for a war Putin chose to launch, and presents every Ukrainian flaw as proof that the country deserves to be abandoned.
Then he went to Moscow, sat in front of Putin like an awestruck intern, and gave him hours to vomit historical revisionism and imperial propaganda with barely any serious challenge. Afterwards he wandered around Russian supermarkets and metro stations acting as if clean floors and cheap bread had disproved dictatorship, repression and war crimes.
The entire act is a grift built on cynicism. He tells gullible Americans that everyone is lying except him, that the aggressor is the victim, and that treachery is courage as long as it is packaged as anti-establishment rebellion.
He is not a brave dissident. He is a smug, dishonest salesman who discovered that laundering Kremlin propaganda is extremely profitable when your audience is desperate to feel smarter than everyone else.
Må tydeligvis begynne å kjøpe Milan-drakter med spillere jeg ikke liker, for like etter jeg har så forsvinner de. Kjøper Zlatan, han drar. Romagnoli, han drar. Tonali, han drar. Leao, nå på vei bort. Fikk i hvert fall Maldini-drakt fra 98 til 30-årsdagen
En tsjekkisk versjon av amerikanernes «Pulisic er verdens beste spiller» man hører her? Ser på VM nede i Tsjekkia og han ved siden av meg er helt overbevist om at David Pastrnak er verdens beste hockeyspiller. Femstjernes spiller så klart, men altså. McDavid er også i blant oss
I don’t understand these accounts that claim to be pro European while constantly ridiculing Europe.
Every time Europe tries to assert itself, you turn it into a joke.
Every time it talks about defense, you mock our soldiers.
They are not patriots, they are vassals.