re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

RT is the successor to Radio Moscow, the Soviet Union’s official shortwave broadcaster. RT is currently Russia’s state broadcaster.

What burns me is American cable companies carry Russian government propaganda. Capitalists have no problem profiting off propaganda.

Getting people to cancel their cable subscriptions because cable companies carry Russian government propaganda is like getting people to cancel Facebook subscriptions because Facebook sure seems to openly support fascism: There’s always some reason why they just can’t do that right now.

RT English/French/German/Spanish/whatever’s job is to stir shit up in the target countries however they can, to weaken the West. Because what’s bad for the West is good for Russia: that’s the depth of thought involved. They will try to hook in new users with targeted clickbait, and get them on the program. So, now it’s time to stir up xenophobia against generic Muslims in Western countries.

RT has been fined several times by UK Ofcom (the regulator), to great hysterics about Western hypocrisy and censorship. While Russia is killing off all remains of independent journalism and throwing journalists in prison, but anyways.

This isn’t without its domestic problems. The Russian government, and therefore the Russian mass media, have been extremely pro-vax domestically, but anti-vax internationally to hurt the West. However, Russians can certainly get to foreign reporting one way or another, and the anti-vax foreign propaganda has blown back and exacerbated the existing paranoid/purity/home remedy tendencies of the Russian population, worsening the massive anti-vax crisis at home.

They sometimes can’t read the room, either. Last week RT started making fun of Americans eating horse dewormer for COVID, which I guess they forgot is their target audience in the US. So much cursing and vows never to read it again.

The Russian government considers RT and other state media to be weapons against their enemies. They assume the same thing for foreign media, which is partly why they’re hysterical about “foreign agents.” They have literally said that they wouldn’t allow foreign tanks to roll into Russia, so why foreign media?