• Nautalax@lemmy.world
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    This article inspired me to check and Teddy Boy Greg (the disgruntled white power barber with a ton of ridiculous facial tattoos who moved to Russia to get away from what he called “degenerates”) has recently died in Ukraine

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      White supremacist died fighting Russia’s war against… checks notes… alleged neo-Nazis? Dude wasn’t blessed with an overabundance of critical thinking.

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        checks notes… alleged neo-Nazis

        Allow me to present this handy guide:

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        One of the interesting things about their propaganda style (which unfortunately is spreading elsewhere…) is that they will spin up entirely different conflicting narratives and even have people arguing between them on their platforms. This is because if they stick to just one kind of narrative, it can only find purchase with the particular sort of audience it’s geared to and will probably fail elsewhere. But if they spin up a ton of different narratives from various mouthpieces geared to many different audiences and blast them unceasingly, then there are still plenty of other hooks to potentially catch a listener even if some are definitely flubs. And if there’s mass confusion in what you actually stand for with all sorts of contradictory statements constantly in the churn of being advanced or withdrawn and defended or blasted, then past a certain point people just kind of give up in the face of the background noise and believe whatever they want rather than if everyone were more closely keeping track of the same smaller and simpler narrative. Part of the reason why they have numerous controlled opposition parties.

        So to people who hate nazis they indeed target a constant barrage of “WE ARE FIGHTING UKRONAZIS” content as justification. This guy however was part of a different stream pulled in by the presentation of Russia as a stern conservative defender of traditional values against the wokeness of the decadent west.

        The barbershop pole on his nose got me every time lmao

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          Plenty of white nationalists among the domestic elite. It’s practically a prerequisite to join certain social clubs and fraternities.

          But white supremacy isn’t just a belief, it’s a goal. Plenty of very smart, savvy, and committed individuals are working overtime to jam their collective boots on our necks.

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            Yep. Education can shield you from being indoctrinated into white supremacy by cheap propaganda, but if you’re just an asshole that loves oppression, you’ll find your way there anyway.