#right wing propaganda machine

[himbosandhardwear]

I have never been so pissed off in my life. Who the fuck flagged this as mature content?! I just wanna talk

[an-absolute-nightmare]

me: india is not secular anymore it's turning into a hindu nationalist country :(

my so called liberal and open minded parents: india is not secular anymore it's turning into a hindu nationalist country :D:D:D:D:D

[eat-a-dicker]

if you want to turn bitch into a slur then dick's gotta go too. cock's out. cocksucker is especially out.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

As musk enshittens twitter more and more into a right wing propaganda machine bluesky is continuously rolling out updates that make the platform safer and more usable.

This is especially good timing as the right wing dipshits are now following people to bluesky to harass them because there’s nothing they hate more than to be ignored.

Bluesky has nuclear level block functionality as well as community curated lists of right wing accounts that allow you to block all of them in just a few clicks.

[eugenedebs1920]

Every maga in the comments…

Right wing media may be the most effective propaganda machine in modern times. So many maga will deny objective reality, despite it being as clear as day, because either the mandarin Mussolini said so or they heard it from some Russian paid, right wing personality.

[socialistexan]

I feel like this can be extended to almost every topic. Trans rights? People didn't really care until it became the 24/7 news cycle on Fox.

This is why politicians and pundits who constantly try to chase public opinion and treat it as a force of nature that someone can have no influence on will always fail. Partially because you'll never put Republican an actual Republican, but also because leaders are supposed to lead, not follow, and people can sense your lack of conviction and moral center.

Again, we've seen this with trans rights, before the conservative media machine really latched on to the issue, people were generally neutral to supportive of trans people and something like a bathroom ban was so politically toxic it lost Republicans state-wide office in southern red states.

The thing the left needs to do is start driving the conversation, pushing it towards things we have advantage on, while also putting forward counter narratives to the right on issues like immigration, women's rights, civil rights and LGBTQ rights.

This is something the right has done masterfully for decades now. They know voters (imo wrongly) trust them on issues of immigration and economics, so when they are out of power, their propaganda wings will begin to spin out stories on inflation and "migrant caravans" and other such nonsense aaaaalllll the way up to election day, and should a Republican win all of those stories disappear the second they're in office.

[papasmoke]

I think one avenue where Mamdani has a leg up over Sanders & Corbyn in his fight against the pro-genocide pro-war anti-migrant anti-worker propaganda machine that dominates western politics is that he and his campaign and his army of volunteers being social media savvy means he's beating right wing extremist media like the new york post, the new york times, the atlantic, CNN, msnbc, fox, the Facebook and Twitter algorithms, super pac mailers and TV attack ads to the punch on defining his policies.

[wilwheaton]

Vladimir Putin understands better than Democrats and Democratic donors how to seize control of a nation. And Democrats damn well better learn the lesson, and fast. Forget about the economy and even abortion: it’s the media, stupid! When Putin wanted the Central African Republic (CAR) to give him multiple gold and mineral mines in that resource-rich country, the first thing his agent, Yevgeny Prigozhin, did was to buy a radio station and start running propaganda about the benefits of the CAR creating closer ties to Russia. Similarly, when Putin wanted to put Trump into the White House, he had Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency — a massive, well-funded troll farm based in St. Petersburg — use swing-state polling and other internal RNC confidential information to send more than 100 million targeted Facebook impressions to swing state Americans.

Inside the fight to overcome America's dangerous right-wing media machine

[lune-moon-nuit]

A post to read and share absolutely

The media are lying about the Freedom Flotilla and Rima Hassan.

Let’s set the record straight against the echo chambers of genocide apologists saturating television and radio. For over 30 hours now, Netanyahu and the genocidal Israeli government have been forcibly detaining MEP Rima Hassan and three French nationals. They were illegally arrested despite the United Nations demanding a safe and secure passage for the Freedom Flotilla on its way to Gaza. This ship's mission was to break the blockade that is starving the people of Gaza.

The genocidal Israeli government is now imposing an intolerable and illegal condition for the release of Rima Hassan and the French citizens: they are being pressured to sign a document stating that they entered Israeli territory illegally. Rightfully, Rima Hassan and the French nationals have refused to sign this false document.

It is false because they did not enter Israeli territory illegally. They were illegally intercepted in international waters as they approached Palestinian territory and its maritime zone, which is itself illegally controlled and occupied by the Israeli state.

Mainstream media are repeating Netanyahu’s propaganda talking points word for word. They refer to the Flotilla as a “cruise,” they call it a “PR stunt” in an attempt to downplay the immense courage behind the Freedom Flotilla. Some even go as far as to claim that Rima Hassan does not wish to be expatriated and is refusing repatriation. None of this is true. They are lying live on air. They are carrying out the same mass disinformation campaign that has been ongoing for more than 20 months in an effort to erase the reality of the genocide. They are complicit.

And Emmanuel Macron is complicit too. Why hasn’t he condemned this illegal arrest even once? Why is he allowing French citizens to be illegally detained by a genocidal government?

The answer is quite clear: Just last week, he approved the delivery of fourteen tons of French-made assault rifle components to an Israeli arms manufacturer.

In short: French ammunition is killing Palestinians while France allows its own citizens to languish in Israeli detention centers—facilities that have already been condemned by the UN for multiple human rights violations.

Rima Hassan and the French citizens must be released immediately and unconditionally.

As a French citizen, I can testify that the majority of the French population supports Palestine and condemns Israel. The results of the surprise legislative elections imposed by Macron a year ago confirm this. Those elections were won by a coalition of left-wing parties, including La France Insoumise—of which Rima Hassan is a member—as well as the Greens.

Unfortunately, Macron, dishonest and driven by a fragile ego, never accepted this defeat. He appointed only right-wing politicians with far-right mindsets as ministers. He would rather let someone like Hitler stay in power than allow a single victorious left-wing MP from the last elections to become a minister.

Moreover, since Macron’s first election in 2017, all the major corporations and media outlets have been privatized and are now controlled by right-wing, far-right, and particularly Zionist billionaires and millionaires (like Vincent Bolloré or Bernard Arnault to name just two). As a result, French mainstream media have increasingly—and alarmingly—turned into pure propaganda machines serving the bourgeois, promoting racist, Zionist, and especially Islamophobic narratives.

They do not hesitate to scapegoat Muslims—especially veiled Muslim women—in order to distract public attention and blame them for all of France’s problems, problems which are in fact caused by the same capitalist bourgeois elites who continue to impoverish the working class to enrich themselves further. They have clearly taken a page from the playbook of Trumpism (and Hitler's nazism).

Since October 7th, their Zionist propaganda has been relentless. Macron even allowed Netanyahu to spew his propaganda during the week of June 6, 2024—daring to exploit the memory of France’s occupation and D-Day to weaponize Holocaust trauma and justify his ongoing genocide by portraying himself as a victim. I have never felt so insulted as a French citizen as I did that day.

Macron has allowed Zionist propaganda to dominate all private and mainstream media outlets. Peaceful, non-violent pro-Palestinian protesters denouncing the genocide are violently arrested by police forces, whose brutality continues to go unchecked. Netanyahu is allowed to fly through French airspace even though he is under international arrest warrant, and France is legally required to arrest him. Instead, they sell him weapons.

I don’t even have the words to fully express the disgust and humiliation this man makes us, the French people, endure. If you believe this government represents its people, I swear to you—it does not.

We are trying to fight every single day, even though we are beaten down, growing poorer, losing more and more of our social protections, getting arrested for protesting. Racism and homophobia are becoming normalized because of their propaganda.

Of course, Rima Hassan has been their enemy from the start. As a Franco-Palestinian MEP, she possesses an intimate and complete understanding of the Israeli genocide and the Zionist propaganda that has existed since 1948. Coming from a Palestinian family of survivors and resisters, it is obvious why she would threaten an entire system built on bourgeois Zionist interests.

They have always tried to silence her, to discredit her. But what they didn’t anticipate was that, by joining the Freedom Flotilla, Rima would expose the contradictions in Israel’s and Zionism’s false narratives and propaganda.

Israel and Zionists claimed that it was Hamas who was blocking the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. But when humanitarian aid comes by sailboat, they themselves prevent its arrival and arrest those involved—without any legal or valid justification, and in international waters.

Since yesterday, thousands of people have been protesting across France, especially in Paris. Some have set up tents in Place de la République, declaring that they will not leave until the blockade is lifted and Rima, along with the others, is fully and unconditionally released.

They are exposing the cognitive dissonance between Zionist propaganda and Israel’s actual actions. This will help awaken those who hadn’t yet paid close enough attention to realize the gravity and urgency of what is unfolding.

The reason why the bourgeoisie, the media, and right- and far-right political figures participating in the Zionist propaganda system harbor such intense hatred toward Rima Hassan right now is not only because, alongside the Freedom Flotilla team—including Greta Thunberg—she has once again brought the spotlight back onto Gaza, but also because Rima, like Palestine itself, is becoming a symbol. A symbol not only of the movement to end the genocide perpetrated by Israel, but of the broader fight to dismantle the colonial, far-right, racist, and capitalist system these people represent.

If Israel loses, they lose as well.

At every rally I’ve attended over the past 19 months, at every uprising against any form of oppression, every time the state has chosen to serve the destruction of the planet, to kill our children, to violate the rights of migrants, of women, of minorities—anywhere in the world—whether I was there in person or witnessing it through images: I saw keffiyehs.

And this is only the beginning.

They know they’ve already lost. This unleashed, frenzied violence we see everywhere marks the end of a system. They can feel it—and they are afraid.

When words no longer suffice, when their ideas no longer hold, all they have left is barbarity.

They have lost.

Every new victim, every mutilated and emaciated body only lengthens the already endless list of their crimes.

It’s over.

They have lost everything—starting with their souls.

Free Palestine, free world. We are all children of Gaza.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Qasim Rashid at Let's Address This:

The ink has barely dried on Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory as the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City—and already, the coordinated Islamophobia machine is kicking into overdrive. If you thought the post-9/11 era or the 2011 “Shariah law scare” were the peak of anti-Muslim hysteria in America, I regret to inform you: we’re about to surpass it. Let’s Address This. Donald Trump wasted no time unleashing a bigoted tirade against Mamdani—a U.S. citizen, an elected official, and now a front-running mayoral candidate. This is not new for Trump, a man whose entire political career is built on white grievance and manufactured Muslim threats. But what is especially insidious—and what corporate media refuses to acknowledge—is that every racist thing Trump has said about Mamdani has already been said by Democrats like Andrew Cuomo and billionaire Cuomo donor Whitney Tilson. Tilson’s smear campaign against Mamdani was one of the most vile in recent memory. He peddled grotesque Islamophobic ads falsely accusing Mamdani of wanting to kill Jews—an outrageous and dangerous lie with echoes of 20th-century blood libel propaganda. And the New York Times—with full knowledge of these attacks—endorsed Tilson anyway. What signal does that send to Muslim Americans across this country? Let’s be clear: Democrats will not defeat Trumpism by acting like Trump. You cannot denounce white supremacy at brunch and then endorse it at the ballot box. Islamophobia is not just a Republican problem—it is deeply embedded in bipartisan political strategy, media narratives, and donor influence. And it is used, always, to protect the status quo and vilify anyone who challenges concentrated wealth and power—especially if they are brown, Muslim, and unapologetically working-class. Now that Mamdani has prevailed, the billionaires who bankrolled Cuomo’s failed comeback have already pledged to spend even more to defeat him in the general. And right-wing outlets are following suit.

Right-wing and pro-Israel apartheid simps resorting to gross Islamophobia and false “antisemitism” accusations against progressive New York City mayoral election primary winner Zohran Mamdani (D) is just a sickening repeat of the immediate aftermath of the post-9/11 period.

[new-gender-who-dis-xd]

I just read the Erin in The Morning article about Sarah McBride, and the amount of trans people in the comments, blaming other trans people for "going too far", or "not seeing nuance", or "overplaying our hand", genuinely makes me want to throw up.

Look what they've done to us, the reason us trans people are losing our rights is because big, BIG money from right wing billionaires and think tanks are being funneled into systematically dismantling our rights.

You aren't losing your rights because Lia Thomas won 5th place at swim competition, or because some trans kids got healthcare, or because a girl 3 months on HRT used the restroom for the first time. You're losing your rights because BILLIONAIRES are funding RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM at levels never seen before in the history of this country.

I'm so fucking sick of hearing about the "radical left". There is no goddamn radical left in this country that has any amount of power, and the moment you idiots realize that is the moment we can stop this stupid fucking in-fighting and mobilize to protect ourselves.

If you are a trans person and think trans people are losing there rights because we've "gone too far" then you have fallen victim to the right wing propaganda machine.

Congratulations, you're now helping the same people who want to take even more from you.

Let's see where being nice to fascists gets you...

[iamthetruenhaz]

Russia's prep work

I originally wrote this as a reply to a reddit comment about the prep work Putin's Russia has done to reconquer Eastern Europe (and Central Asia) and soften up the West in order to "reclaim" the "lost" global power status the USSR had.

Putin* has been prepping his "reconquering" of Eastern Europe and Central Asia since he stepped into office. He took on an openly anti-western course since the Munich speech in 2007. He probably saw American global dominance weakening following Afghanistan and Iraq and because Russia had stabilised after the 90s, he thought it was time to act.

First he paved the way with the Chechen war where he "won" and got to jump on the War on terror bandwagon and use Islamic terrorism as a boogeyman for his own imperialistic purpose to rile up Russians against external threats.

Then he invaded Georgia to probe the soil and see how the west would react. They mostly ignored him so he went on to meddle in Eastern European politics, coerce Ukraine for gas and fund right-wing parties all across Europe (at the time mostly to drive a wedge between Eastern and Western Europe and suck EE countries back into Russian orbit) while pumping anti-western sentiment and Soviet nostalgia at home.

He saw that the west was disunited because of the US-UK-EU split following the wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria. He capitalized on that in several ways using both the wars and the refugee crisis that followed. One, to increase racist and nationalist propaganda and stir up hatred against "the liberal gay western cabal" and the resulting Euroscepticism. Two, to prop up the "proper" traditionalist Russia as an alternative. Three, to paint Eastern European countries as a puppet of the US liberals who were "ackschually" nazis in disguise, which was easy when the West was divided between trying to coax them into the EU and leaving them as a buffer-zone backwater. The brightest example of the latter was in late 2021 when Lukashenko started dumping Middle Eastern migrants on the Polish border so the Poles could be painted as a racist, white supremacist state. Unlike, you know, Belarus (really Russia) which weaponized the migrants.

Then he failed in Ukraine when his puppet's sharp turn away from a planned EU accession path caused the Euromaidan revolts. Pro-Russian protesters soon spawned, staging provications (my own country had a wave of protests and pro-russian counter-protests back then and I remember neonazis and other paid protesters being at the forefronts). Russian media started hurling accusations of nazism against pro-western protesters.

All of a sudden, it's like a switch was flipped in Russian society. Decommunization was out the window. In 2015, Stalin was chosen as the most influential figure in *world* history by Russians. All the anti-Western, Russian irredentist, traditionalist, racist and homophobic sentiments coalesced into one, directed against the "evil nazi gay jewish West". Putin started openly provoking the West with displays of military force, close flybys in territorial waters, playing Cuban missile crisis in Kaliningrad. All to rack up the atmosphere of an imminent Cold War II and maybe even WWIII where a "wronged", "humiliated" Russia would finally make the West pay. The WWII victory celebrations also took on the appearance of a war cult, with jingoistic slogans like "we can do it again", "to Berlin" and "we're coming for the German women" displayed on every 9th May parade. Eastern European countries, especially the Baltics and Poland, noticed and tried to raise alarm, but were mostly told to keep their paranoia down and ignored.

In the last decade, he used his military and propaganda machine (what we call "hybrid warfare") to create the impression of the following: (1) The West is imperialist (and is being hypocritical about it), waging pointless bloody wars in the Middle East; (2) The West is weak in those wars, causing Russia to step in like in Syria and deal with the issue "properly"; (3) Western democracies are weak in dealing with "barbaric" refugees because they're too greedy not to let them in but too soft to throw the bad apples out (this was used to boost nationalism and Euroscepticism).

By those means, Russian propaganda managed to manipulate both anti-imperialist and nationalist groups within the West as well as in Russia and Eastern Europe and pave the way for its "just war" of "reconquering" Eastern Europe. In the West, the image of Eastern Europe was molded as either "poor backwards savages we're better off without" (for nationalists), "paranoid silly yokels crying wolf about Russia who is now playing nice" (for moderates), "ingrates not worth defending so we'll pull out" (for Trump-like US conservatives) or "backwards homophobic barbarians we don't want here because they'll ruin our utopia" (for progressivists). In Russia, they were portrayed as "lost property", accused them of being "taken over by nazis" anytime they tried to acknowledge any of the repressions suffered from USSR, and "unconscious puppets of the West" and routinely threatened with "annexation in 3 days" whenever they "misbehaved" by taking a stance against Russia's politics, whether past or current. Finally, in Eastern European countries themselves, Russia tried to ruin the image of the liberal West by portraying them as "the real fascists", "liberalism gone so far it circled back to fascism" and to prop up its own image as the "savior from debauchery upholding the good ols ways".

Also worth noting that Putin was all too eager to intervene in any country that tried to reject Russian dominance or even its own pro-Russian dictatorship. He was ready to support Belarus in 2020 and intervened in Kazakhstan in 2022 just a month before the invasion of Ukraine.

So yeah, it was quite the prep work. All to ensure that when he went on his imperialistic crusade in EE, people at home and in the West and even in Eastern Europe itself would applaud him, failing that be indifferent, failing THAT remain unheard.

* by "Putin" I don't necessarily mean just him, but the lobby behind him as well.

[stjohnstarling]

At some point between 2019-2021, the internet conquered mainstream media, viral content replaced traditional corporate entertainment, and Republicans have first mover’s advantage. This is their victory lap after all the shameless years they spent posting Pepe the Frog memes and setting up YouTube channels to brainwash children. But I am surprised by how thoroughly the Democrats and, more generally, leftists and liberals have ceded internet culture, as a whole, to the right. Every meme, every format, every platform is fertile ground for an adversarial regime that knows how to spin them into cheap and easy propaganda and there is no line they aren’t willing to cross. You can quibble, and say that conservatives are better funded or less squeamish about being cringe or care less about telling the truth. But none of that really changes the fact that social media, the machine that now decides what pop culture looks like, is now an inherently right-wing space. And regardless of what explanation you subscribe to as to how we got to this point, that is a huge cultural loss for the left. And one without a clear solution in sight. And, no, sorry, telling people to log off is not an effective response when we’re talking about democratic action. Even if you, personally, don’t like using the internet anymore, it is more popular and more influential than ever before. We’re not going back. But it’s not all doom and gloom here. We’re seeing the beginnings of our first internet-led protest movement of the second Trump administration. Which is heartening. It was responsible for organizing many of the marches earlier this week in cities across America. It’s calling itself 50501 and it’s primarily organizing on Reddit. It’s the first real sign that maybe the opposition can let go of their millennial luddism and embrace technology to push back. Though, they are currently arguing over what their actual message is. So, I guess we’ll have to wait and see how things play out.

Garbage Day

[spartanmuscle]

The High Lieutenant is pleased to receive information about growing numbers of law enforcement officers deciding to join the Program.

The Program believes that it has common interests with Police Departments all across the country - defending the Law and spreading Order throughout America.

/most officers are conditioned to follow orders without question, making them into perfect Guards requires minimal effort/

The Spartan Program is a great way for police officers to continue their work of expanding American Traditions outside of work hours.

/cops are already brainwashed with right-wing propaganda and are easily led to spartan conservatism/

Police cooperation with the Program can lead to higher levels of cohesion within the Police Force.

/the Program can easily turn liberal-leaning officers into huge masculine machines, spreading american values/

Further incorporation of Spartan Guards into the structures of American Police Departments is a welcomed development that will allow the common goals of the Program and the Police to grow and spread.

/influencing Police Forces across the country from the inside will allow the Program to spread and exert further influence over the country - it will allow the Program to make sure American Traditions are preserved, that masculinity is not being erased, that Spartan Conservatism becomes the dominant force of America/

[eugenedebs1920]

The master class in deception begins and ends with the once “Grand Ol Party”. Today’s Republican Party has betrayed our veterans, our children, and the middle class in general. The so called “GOP” will decry patriotism while turning their back on those who fought for our freedoms. They will claim to support the troops while slashing funding and eliminating jobs at the veterans affairs. Heck! They even got rid of the veteran suicide hotline.

How is that patriotic!? How does that support the troops!? How does treating our men and women in uniform, who swore an oath to defend the Constitution, who risked their lives, left their families, who faced death in service of our nation, how does voting against their interests show a single ounce of respect to our country’s military members!?

EVERY SINGLE NAY VOTE FOR THE PACT ACT WAS A REPUBLICAN.

It’s not just veterans and service members that Republicans betray and lie to, they hold no regard for the average American. As Helene was forming in the Gulf of Mexico every nay vote to fund FEMA was a republican. Some being representatives from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, then they spread fake stories about Biden refusing aide! It’s mind blowing!!

Republicans voted against paid sick leave. They voted against guaranteed overtime pay. They voted against raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to an actual living wage. They voted for a bill to increase asbestos and other hazardous product levels in building materials. They voted for corporate tax cuts. For giving their constitutional power over taxes and tariffs to the executive branch. How is this the party of the working class!?

Today’s Republican Party is the enemy of the people. As maga goes around defiling our nations flag with superimposed pictures of trumps stupid orange face on it, cheering on the tyrant who is actively destroying our republic. All the while Republicans “leaders” cower in fear to speak out, afraid they might lose power through a primary challenge. The fecklessness is shameful. What happened to protecting the constitution, defending democracy, standing with your country, your constituents, your fellow Americans!?

While they stoke division through culture wars our rights and reputation slowly fizzles away. While the “GOP” and the right wing propaganda machine encourage hate, spread misinformation, blame Americas problems on trans people, gay people, DEI programs, radical left lunatics, it is them who undermine the very foundation this country is built upon.

Republican lawmakers don’t care about veterans. They don’t care about fiscal responsibility. They don’t care about the working class, the only thing of relevance to them retaining power, and supporting the corporations and wealthy donors who fund their campaigns and lavish lifestyle.

The left. Liberals. The Democratic Party. It may have its faults, but it stands with its military members, it sides with the working poor and middle class. I’d take a party that cares for Americans over oligarchs any day.



[contemplatingoutlander]

This is the problem. We have Fox News, the number one cable "news" network pushing disinformation and lies against the Democrats and Biden 24/7.

And then we have the mainstream media, that bends over backwards to present "both sides," and in the process inadvertently reinforced the lies, simply by repeating them--even if just to criticize them.

Furthermore, Fox News and the right-wing media, heap undeserved praise on Republicans and Trump. They serve as constant GOP cheerleaders.

Even MSNBC and other left-leaning media, don't shy away from criticizing the Democrats or Biden if they deserve it.

So there is no news source that is 24/7 positive about Democrats like the right-wing propaganda media is positive about Republicans.

The reason that is of course, is that the right-wing media ISN'T AN ACCURATE SOURCE OF NEWS--IT IS A RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE.

The only possible way of protecting our democracy at this point might be through more lawsuits against Fox News. Money talks and the Dominion lawsuit cost them. There has to be a price they pay for the lies or they will continue with their dishonest and destructive "business model."

Imagine if liberals or the Dems had a nationwide messaging apparatus, an actual propaganda arm, which pumped out Jared Kushner’s name and alleged misdeeds daily, 100s of times. Then you start to understand the messaging imbalance in this country & how GOP gets away with so much. - Mehdi Hasan