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From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on power
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Interesting he uses the same techniques we have become so familiar. "As soon as the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in a Siberian penal colony was announced in February, conspiracy theories about who was behind it began circulating in Russia. “That he was killed by his puppet masters from the west, not the Kremlin. That he was killed by them because his murder would actually make Putin look awful in the eyes of global community,” explains Ilya Yablokov, a lecturer in digital journalism and disinformation at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Yablokov studies the spread of conspiracy theories in post-Soviet Russia, and says the stories about Navalny are the most prominent of many circulating ahead of a presidential election that looks certain to keep Putin in the Kremlin until at least 2030. Yablokov tells The Conversation Weekly that Russia’s conspiracy culture has become a key tool for Putin’s regime: “Conspiracy theories are one of the few ways of keeping the society together and to prevent the change of the regime.” Fear of anti-Russian conspiracy now informs many pieces of domestic legislation, such as the 2022 changes to the criminal code that were aimed at censoring criticism of the Russian military, and in particular its actions in Ukraine. Yablokov adds: Every possible activity that can shake up the regime and question its actions is forbidden on the grounds of an existing conspiracy against Russia and its regime. Conspiracy theories used to exist on the margins of Russian culture. Putin typically avoided mentioning them too much, except at key political moments such as elections or Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. But now, and in particular since the Ukraine war, they have moved to the centre of political debate." |
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From: shatterbrain, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on...
| The two characters that so enthusiastically subscribe and adhere to conspiracy theories are of course Mad Vlad and Donald J.Trump. Such kindred spirits LOVE trashing and pissing on anything that is good, wholesome, decent and pure. Prepare yourselves for new levels of debauchery and debasement. |
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From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on...
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The normalization of the extremism is really scary. I'm watching friends of many decades walk away because of visceral political views. Crazy. I'm quite serious about the civil war as in Missouri playing out again. Michael Fellman Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War Reprint Edition ISBN-13: 978-0195064711, ISBN-10: 0195064712 |
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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: conspiracy theories help to maintain Vladimir Putin’s grip on...
| it's video games and dumbphones...both normalize extremism...and lack of any moral fiber of course... |
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