Former adviser of V Putin. Political technologist, surrealist poet & ventriloquist. aka N. Dubovitsky. I am not Surkov. He is a hack and I'm obviously a genius.
The technique of art is to make debates unfamiliar, to make discussions difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of communication because the debate process is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. -Donald J. Trump #MAGA
@CIAdopeman@lordjackass4u@UScrimeReview One made commercials for Theranos, and the other made The Century of the Self. Yet one makes our knowledge of subjects more complex, while the other primarily aims to help people see through systematic methods for producing confusion. You can probably guess who I prefer.
@lordjackass4u@UScrimeReview You might be interested in this special issue of the Russian Politics & Law journal, including the article "Russian Political Culture: The View from Utopia". https://t.co/FOqR00MgJ6
@just_nikolai Dumbest shit I've heard in awhile, conflating science with faith. Hope you aren't a breeder, and if you are, hope you are American not Russian.
Putin's double has been doing such a great job all this time and then gave up the game the instant he tried to find his watch on his left hand, since real Putin wears his watch on his right.
This is a friendly reminder that the current military campaign by Russia in Ukraine, like in Syria before, is non-linear in nature. This evil war is part of a process, but not its most important part. Putin's chef switching sides mid battle aligns with a higher aim: confusion.
"We need to expose covert information operations–without starting to see information as something inherently dangerous. To truly win the information war you have to avoid the underlying cynicism and conspiracy thinking implicit in the very idea of information war itself." Peter P
'Information war' is the essence and practice of Putinism. It's an approach to communication that treats people as fools- not citizens. It's deeply cynical, and implies all words are weapons, that talk of 'values' and 'rights' are just manipulation...
@olgatokariuk The argument against No Fly Zone “because it could lead to nuclear war” starts to lose the upper hand when Putin is firing rockets on nuclear power plants.