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In a broader sense, the exhaustive storm of BS is deliberate: When the people are too damn tired to care about which story is really true, it changes the playing field to favor whoever is willing to tell the most-pleasing lies.



That is classic Russian disinformation isn't it? Fill every channel with contradictory information, until no-one knows what to believe.


Eventually it dovetails with the dynamics of: "The way you have to pretend to believe/avoid my obvious lies is a demonstration of my power and an implicit threat to others."

Then: "By forcing you to publicly sacrifice your integrity, I've poisoned any future resistance with mutual doubt."

> He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. You can’t help it. You catch it off him.

-- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett


Yes, it is known as Hypernormalization.


My understand of Hyper Normalisation is that it is the construction of a fake reality that everyone agrees on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

Which is different to flooding the channels with contradictory information, so that no-one knows what to believe.

The film 'Hyper Normalisation', by Adam Curtis, is well worth watching, BTW.


Flooding the channels is step one. Construction of the fake reality follows. I also recommend that documentary, it details "how we got here".


Well, that fits as well for the CG crowd.


CG?


Calin Georgescu, the candidate that hasrussian support. Kind of how US abbreviates Donald Trump as DJT.


>that everyone agrees on

(or, at least, pretends to)


I don't think this is what's happening. There is no confusion.

Europe is going down the drain due to the lack of innovation and over-regulation making people poorer and poorer. Refugees cause crime on the street making people feel unsafe.

The average Joe is pissed and votes whatever extremists, as long as they oppose the EU.


Trust me, there is confusion.

We have inequality in Romania, but we don't have flrefugees causing crime or making people feel unsafe.

The quality of life as steadily been improving.

There is lack of faith in the political class.


And Russia is happily adding fuel to that fire. It's a divide and conquer strategy for them.




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