You can’t make this stuff up: https://youtu.be/Ch0q31cfEIQ?t=628

Not sure about the press, since we’ll probably get that in tomorrow morning, but Salvini is being the usual Trump boot licker and Meloni just said some generic rightwing shit about “the forces that want our civilizational decline” (can’t blame Muslims for this one, but you can still recycle the same rhetoric).

https://www.fanpage.it/politica/salvini-elogia-trump-dopo-scontro-con-zelensky-forza-schlein-meloni-decida-con-chi-stare/

I checked the super generic comments that seemed AI generated. Some of them had content like videos or decent descriptions. Others had profiles that were as old as 10 years. If they were bots I would expect them to be created in the last few years. There’s a few that are suspicious, but it was maybe 2 in 15 accounts. They could also be hacked accounts.

True, the likes might be manufactured. Don’t count on Google to moderate them

The whole meeting was pure propaganda, it’s why it was so openly streamed live, even though there was no intention of signing the deal.

I will provide a propagandistic casus belli. Its credibility doesn’t matter. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany#In_power_(1933–1939)

Especially easy to do after the Trump administration purged media dissenters

Looking at their profiles, they don’t look like bots to me. Maybe it’s just that MAGAs sound as stupid as a bot swarm.

At first, Zelensky rejected the proposal, but the two countries eventually reached an agreement on a revised version. Zelensky traveled to Washington to finalize and sign the deal.

However, tensions escalated when Zelensky tried to explain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lack of diplomacy to Vice President Vance. Vance accused Zelensky of “litigating” in front of the media and criticized him for appearing in photos with Democrats during the 2024 campaign. He also said Zelensky’s comments were “disrespectful” to the Trump administration.

This sounds just like a setup to humiliate Zelensky and justify this shit to the MAGA brains. Trump and Vance weren’t planning on signing the deal. Pure and simple propaganda. But MAGAs don’t have enough neurons to see it.

They did. They just looked at it and said “hell yes” while sweating profusely.

Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

So buying a major newspaper and firing (or putting pressure on) anybody who doesn’t agree with the new owner’s “pillars” is not coercion? Did Bezos get this buff from the mental gymnastics?

PS: surprised nobody mentioned Manufacturing Consent yet, which describes exactly what is happening here, and remains valid in the age of Internet