• The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
  — Alan Greenspan, 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money
• Your [federal] Taxes Pay for Nothing
• What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela? A lot of people point to Weimar, Zimbabwe and Venezuela as examples of the dangers of MMT, but let’s have a closer look at hyperinflation in these three examples. All three had distinctly similar factors that lead to the spiralling devaluation of their currency. While they can teach us some lessons about hyperinflation, they’re nothing to do with MMT.

Okay, collective pseudonymous you, ya got me 👍

What “actions” are you even talking about? This is social media, there’s nothing here but words.

We’re still waiting for my Slavic tells to be revealed, Mr. philologist.

Welcome, that one other person 😂

Your English also has several tells.

I don’t know if you’re living in your own fantasy world, or if you think anyone reading this is going to believe your own ham-fisted attempts at propaganda. Since virtually no one read this far deep into a thread, I’m beginning to think it might be the former, because what’s point of making up bullshit like this if no one’s going to read it?

You just rely on “if they start engaging, I can sealion endlessly”

Are you pro-Russian?

Have you forgotten who @-ed who in this thread, or who has demanded an answer to this question a dozen times or more now, despite my having given rather detailed answers months ago?

All I did was post links to Western media sources, so I don’t see how that could be “a museum exhibit about Soviet propaganda.”

Edit to add: If you don’t want people to see links to Western media, maybe don’t @ me next time 🤷

Reality has a well-known Russian propaganda bias.

It seems that lately Western media has started “parroting Russian talking points.” Is it because all this Russian propaganda is so incredibly effective, or is it because truths are becoming harder and harder to suppress? This week:

• The Economist: Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win
• Responsible Statecraft: Why sanctions on Russia are literally backfiring: Moscow appeared ripe for Western-imposed economic pain after its invasion of Ukraine but today the country is thriving
• NYT: With Limited Options, Zelensky Seeks a Path Forward for Ukraine
• NYT: Russia’s Swift March Forward in Ukraine’s East
• NYT: As Russia Advances, U.S. Fears Ukraine Has Entered a Grim Phase

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Western media parroted Russian talking points before 2022 as well, but somehow in February of that year they stopped 🤔

• Reuters: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War

I stand by my statement that there are “approximately zero” bots on Lemmy, unless you want to include the occasional spammer or corporate shill, and even they are almost always quickly dispatched.

And there are reasons why I’m not inclined to take my government or their NGO partners at their word.

• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
• Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

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The sole advantage to being as old as dirt is having been vaccinated already.

Exactly, it is “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers,” and not a community for spreading nonsense like Google secretly listening to your conversations to better recommend YouTube videos to you.

Found the Java developer.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: BS

Maybe I should have removed this post, because it is ridiculous.

Yes, one single person. Many such case.

Well aren’t you a joykill to the 24-hour news cycle.

The report is based on the [Washington] Post’s own research

This sounds like a proxy slapfight between Bezos & Musk 😂

This is very much believable, and a thousand times more believable than your phone listening to you to send you ads.

Trick or treat is a threat. They can’t refuse you treats because of the implication.