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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I used to watch this back in the day but there were persistent rumours that it was state propaganda of some kind. I don't see how exactly it is meant to work but it's credible that Russia was active on YouTube and social media at the time. Anyone know?

[–] nawa 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The organizer of these raids is Nashi (means something like Our Own Kind in Russian, not in a racist way, but like our own close-minded people) which was basically a youth wing of the United Russia party. They don't do anything without the purpose of state propaganda.

And also, if you watch them all, you can see that in a number of these videos, the activists are definitely pushing too hard and being assholes themselves when the driver was not really even pushing back and could just move their car easily, just to get rage views.

[–] WhatAmLemmy -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why would this be state propaganda? How would the Russian plutocracy benefit from this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The politics in these videos is very interesting and regional shit I don't really understand comes up a lot. There's a lot of "things are better now, the cops are no longer corrupt", there's a bunch of messaging I can see but not really contextualize.

[–] BigPotato 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything that promotes another country is propaganda.

Everything that promotes my country is just the truth.

Everything that makes another country look bad is the truth.

Everything that makes my country look bad is propaganda.

[–] abigscaryhobo 1 points 1 month ago

We are winning the war with Eastasia

We have never been at war with Eastasia

[–] CyberTailor 1 points 1 month ago

Channelling discontent in some way, with a bit of classic divide & conquer