Cheasty
October 28, 2024, 9:03pm
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The notion that Trump could be anything other than a total disaster for Palestinians is obviously ludicrous.
Patrick Henningsen however is one of the people I describe here. He’s a pure Russia propagandist who lures people into his Putinist/Assadist worldview by seeming “compassionate” about Palestine. He’s a fucking cunt.
He’s a pro-Russia, pro-Assad, pro-Iran propagandist.
The point he makes here is correct. But his job is to be a propagandist. Headbanger propagandists lure people in by coming across as “reasonable” on certain issues.
The way this works is that social media - and by extension real politics - has been divided into basically two camps on the Russian war against Ukraine/Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon.
One camp supports Israel and Ukraine. The other camp supports Russia and Gaza/Hezbollah/Assad/Iran/China etc.
You’ll get the likes of Anne Applebaum writing excellent articles about Russia’s war on Ukraine and all the disinformation and covert Russian influence in the west including their support for Trump and the far right in Europe that goes with it. And then she’ll be completely silent about Israel. And lots of people in her geopolitical “camp” will behave in the same manner as fanatical Russian propagandists do when it comes to Israel’s genocide.
The likes of Alan MacLeod will tell you the truth about Israel, because it suits them. But their job is to propagandise for Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and China. And to push pro-Trump talking points as regards the US and push batshit conspiracism in general. Basically his core audience is @glenshane . But he’ll try and lure unsuspecting idiots into his wider agenda by posing as a reasonable citizen of the world appalled at Israel’s genocide. He operates in exactly the same manner as Russia Today did/does, with enticing slogans like “Question More”.
Normal people’s default position is to sympathise with both Ukraine and the innocent people of Gaza and Lebanon.
But social media is organised to offer basically no outlet for reasonable people. Social media offers only a binary choice between supporting Ukraine and Israel or supporting Russia and Gaza/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran etc.
This is a situation which suits the people who run social media and suits the two opposing geopolitical camps. It drives clicks, it drives ratings, it drives hopelessness, it benefits despots and despotism.
The likes of Alan MacLeod are symbols of the trap social media has laid to ensnare the world.