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Depressed Octopus This is a carefully designed salami strategy of propaganda, where they inject these - at this time extreme - messages into the public debate in order to normalize them and accustom people to the new policy. For example, this is precisely how they achieved the shift of Russian public perception of the goals of the war, from “surgical operation that won’t harm civilians” to “kill all Ukrainians”. It all started from such rants by Krasovsky, Solovyev and Simonyan, who were acting anger at some of their specific military failures and this way normalized escalation and Russian hits against civilian infrastructure. For us it’s just a freak show because we’re not the target audience. Steep Crawdad
kravietz 🦇 I'm curious if you have seen/done any research into this 'fringe to the general population' vector of spreading their motives? I can easily see this being a part of targeted influence but haven't considered it as a major factor yet. I know couple folks reviewing these animals and might have a look if I'd be able to find such trends in there.