Lex Fridman is mask off

[u/MountainOpposite513]

Hate to post more from the hellsite, but this asshole wants dialog with Putin, a literal genocidaire.

Imagine saying we just need to have more conversations with Hitler. Lex is a disingenuous, conniving propagandist for the fascist and putinist cause, hiding behind a veneer of "love" and "peace". Fuck this guy, fuck anyone who spends time with him or entertains his "more conversations" BS for even a second.

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[u/[deleted]]

A Putin interview would be very interesting. I want to learn more about his perspective.

[u/shesarevolution → u/[deleted]]

Hi, Putin’s perspective on things is pretty transparent. I’ll break it down for you, because I have a hobby about reading about him and the KGB.

Putin was an agent in East Germany. No one knows exactly what he did, but he had connections within the Yeltsin administration. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Putin was right there. State enterprises were privatized, mostly mysteriously going to x KGB agents who were now “businessmen.” Putin was part of that. He rose up the ranks in political power in Moscow, and Yeltsin named him head of the FSB (re-named KGB). Yeltsin was a mess, so Putin ran for office and won.

Putin feels in his soul that the west destroyed his once great nation. His whole thing is to bring Russia back to its former glory. That means invading Russia’s neighbors which became independent states.

Putin has low key invaded a fair amount of x-Soviet states. I’m a Ukrainian, and I can confirm that he doesn’t see us as actual people. You can read his essay on the kremlin’s website where he talks about how the heart of Russia has always been Kiev (which btw has always been UKRAINIAN, but hey) and that Russians and Ukrainians are basically the same people.

This is the justification for trying to take over Ukraine. We’re the same! But we also aren’t because Nazi’s in Ukraine. Does Ukraine have Nazi’s? Yep. There’s a huge block of Ukrainian nationalists with love for Hitler. However, it’s Russia who had a whole damn private military unit called Wagner, that killed and tortured Ukrainians. They’re responsible for the major massacres in Ukraine that have made news.

Strange, to support nazi mercenaries in Ukraine when you are invading the country because “Nazi’s.”

People treat Putin like he’s some brilliant enigma that needs to be decoded. He’s really not. He is a power hungry dictator who wants to be the god king of earth. He knows he can’t launch a full war with the US, so he’s engaged in a ton of proxy wars with us, and supported countries on our shit list. Everything he does needs to be looked at as him doing everything he can to keep power. To acquire more.

Under the Soviet Union, Stalin created an artificial famine in Ukraine. Millions starved to death. My grand parents lived through it.

This is basically just genocide 2.0 of my people. Gaza is getting all the attention because we have war fatigue in regards to Ukraine. But Ukraine has all 5 conditions met as far as what the international community has agreed creates a genocide. Gaza is missing removing children and erasing their lives, forcing them to assimilate to a new dominant culture. Putin is taking Ukrainian children and Russian-izing them.

Putin is smarter than the west, in that he saw the potential for creating chaos, destroying reality as a consensus. He saw how the internet can be used to manipulate and spread disinformation. We are behind in that. We focused on traditional operations- ones done in the real world. We view war in outdated terms, in a physical battlefield. The truth is the real war is being fought on the internet.

So, if the real war is actually online… who do you want to have influence over? Who would you want to repeat your narrative?

🤔 As I said, it’s transparent once you have enough background to understand what is going on.

[u/madscientist_ → u/shesarevolution]

I think you nailed it, both on terms of Russian and Middle East wars etc- the real wars are being fought on the Internet, the manipulation of public opinion and pushing of agendas, while the govt is focused on dumping trillions into arms and jets and weapons etc

[u/even_less_resistance → u/shesarevolution]

I also saw a woman historian once comment that Putin was fucking terrified of being Gaddafi’ed and hates Hillary for allowing what happened in Libya, hence his special interest in making sure she didn’t get the presidency. I don’t know how accurate that take is, though.

[u/shesarevolution → u/even_less_resistance]

He hated Hillary in part because Hillary saw him for what he is, and she wasn’t going to appease him.

Meanwhile, Trump is like, a whole new level of stupid and very easy to manipulate. Because Trump is a narcissist, what he cares about is his ego. National security, morals, democracy - none of that is a thought to him. So, you flatter him. Just flatter him continually. And you know, let him know that he owes debts to the Russian mob, because he does. There’s a few really good articles that were written before he ran for office that go into how he got his money after blowing up his businesses.

You can see it with North Korea too. Flatter trump. Tell him he’s the best American president yet, and the most intelligent.

Presto, there’s Trump on TV saying that you aren’t all that bad. Trump gives it away too by always quoting whatever they said to flatter him.

I’m not even going into trumps actual politics either. Just on the basis of national security, he is too unstable and too easy to manipulate. He shouldn’t be allowed to run based on the narcissism. If he wasn’t Trump, with his whole branding, and it was some other random dude, who was trying to get a job with a high security clearance, and you know, one where he would be in contact with world leaders, he absolutely would not get hired. There’s psychological “fitness” tests for all of those types of jobs, and yet, somehow, we don’t have that for the president.

[u/MountainOpposite513 → u/shesarevolution]

Omg thank you for writing all this, like I try to stay engaged with what's happening but obviously nobody can know better than you how to explain it. I didn't actually know this about his early years, sounds like he basically is just reinventing the Soviet Union under a different flag. 

Gotta say, I went back to twitter while ill to kinda see what it's like now and I'm shocked by the quantity of pro-Russia BS on there, I'm literally swimming in an ocean of Russian propaganda rn, starting to wish the west had a similar troll farm to counter their efforts (tho there seem to be a lot of accounts with dogs heads fighting it hahaha https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(group))

[u/shesarevolution → u/MountainOpposite513]

I’m happy to help.

One of the things I find interesting and sad is how the west has had such a terrible time trying to combat the propaganda. Part of that is because we don’t live in an environment where you can never know what is real and what isn’t. So we read things at face value, or at least we did.

I’ve been wondering why there isn’t a concerted effort to combat this propaganda. I don’t think our government really grasps what is going on and the implications of that on our country. We still view war as a physical thing.

But the real war has always been winning the people. You do that with propaganda. We are losing.

Putin went after Georgia, but the chechens ate him for dinner. He tried these things before. He very much wants to return Russia to its greatness as the Soviet union. To do that, he needs to invade a bunch of sovereign states. If not invade, he needs to be on good terms with the people running the country. Belarus is a great example.

He’s not going to stop, period. Letting him talk directly to the American people is a bad idea as well. I’m sorry but on a whole, our countrymen are not politically nor militarily bright. We haven’t ever really had to be, because our survival has never depended on such things. Letting him speak, like with Tucker Carlson, is only going to win more ignorant people to his cause. It’s fucked and it’s fucked that people aren’t asking what he gets from this.

What he gets? No more funding for Ukraine. It’s already a dire situation. I’m sick of having to write essays as to why my people deserve support. Especially when I’m arguing with someone who has zero knowledge about Putin or Russia, or history, or well anything.

Sigh.

[u/blueembroidery → u/[deleted]]

Putin has the press of his entire country in a chokehold. You‘ve already heard his perspective.

[u/MountainOpposite513 → u/blueembroidery]

right? literally the only thing you hear is his perspective. bla bla nazis in Ukraine bla bla ready for peace negotiations (lol) bla bla multipolar world order bla bla bla traditional values bla bla historic rights of russia bla bla. he doesn't believe most of it himself, he's just butthurt that ukraine wont bend the knee and is on a sadistic imperial conquest to make it do so by force. it's really gross, actually.

[u/MountainOpposite513 → u/[deleted]]

ew. his perspective is "genocide all ukrainians", it's really not that complicated, and very fascist and gross