[HN Gopher] Putin's State Media News Is Interrupted: 'They're Ly...
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       Putin's State Media News Is Interrupted: 'They're Lying to You'
        
       Author : virtualwhys
       Score  : 125 points
       Date   : 2022-03-14 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ericjang wrote:
       | Thread with additional context about Marina Ovsyannikova
       | https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1503453848786059270?s=2...
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       | Her bravery is incredible.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | This is an incredibly brave move. Sadly I don't think this woman
       | is ever seeing life outside of a prison cell again.
        
         | FpUser wrote:
         | I hope Putin will be exterminated. She still has a chance.
        
       | tus666 wrote:
       | Russians already know this.
       | 
       | It's the West that needs this kind of intervention.
        
         | ogogmad wrote:
         | I've seen some surveys on Russian streets which show otherwise.
         | "ia za putina." "Ia dumaiu, chto on umnyi chelovek."
        
         | bigodbiel wrote:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506536
        
         | myko wrote:
         | Could you explain what you mean? The west is strongly against
         | the war in Ukraine that Putin started - what specific
         | intervention do you recommend?
        
           | tus666 wrote:
           | That the media lies and is full of propaganda.
        
             | ralfn wrote:
             | Yeah. Its exactly like the sort of propaganda in Russia.
             | 
             | Impressive though, how "the West" does all that project
             | management and is capable of coordinating all their lies in
             | so many different languages across so many different
             | cultures and so many different ideologies and religions.
             | 
             | The trap, like always, is in the premise. This isn't Russia
             | vs the West. Like its two superpowers battling.
             | 
             | This is an authoritarian hierarchical regime vs Ukraine.
             | That same regime vs Poland. That same regime vs Finland.
             | The same regime vs "empty sign holders".
             | 
             | The West is not some kind of homogenous blob. The few times
             | all media across all these countries say the same thing, is
             | when the other side is lying pants-on-fire.
             | 
             | They are literally suggesting Greece, Turkey, Germany and
             | Poland are conspiring and coordinating to harm a hasbeen
             | superpower with an economy the size of a potato of which
             | half is energy exports. And the little bit of money they do
             | make is then spend on the military, but due to the
             | corruption, all ends up in apartments in London and yachts
             | in Italy.
        
       | 1024core wrote:
       | Now where's Max Headroom when you need him?
        
       | ogogmad wrote:
       | The polar opposite of this act is here:
       | https://nitter.net/femeninna/status/1503464366330548227#m
       | 
       |  _"If you think that we will stop in #Ukraine, you are deeply
       | mistaken, this is just an intermediate stage" says the main
       | Kremlin's propagandist, Vladimir Solovyev_
        
       | neskorodev wrote:
       | 10-15 years in prison because fresh local laws. Sad to say that.
       | She is the hero.
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | Courage on the order of Tank Man.
        
       | 2-718-281-828 wrote:
       | Couldn't read the sign as her huge balls of steel were obscuring
       | it.
       | 
       | </reddit>
       | 
       | How can you be so brave? I mean - she must know what she's up for
       | now ... very sad.
        
       | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
        
         | titanomachy wrote:
         | Care to elaborate?
        
           | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
           | The narrative that all of Russian news and media is
           | propaganda is false.
        
             | ogogmad wrote:
             | At this point, it's so much obfuscation and noise that it's
             | hard to know where the signal is.
             | 
             | Russians employ disinformation -- which is a term meaning
             | strategic lying -- to get their way. The level of chutzpah
             | when they accuse Ukraine of being a neo-Nazi country, and
             | so on and so on...
        
             | babypuncher wrote:
             | The recent "fake news" laws they passed seem to indicate
             | otherwise.
        
         | temptemptemp111 wrote:
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | tablespoon wrote:
       | Then the next story down in Bloomberg's infinite scroll:
       | 
       | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/elon-musk...
       | 
       | > Billionaire Elon Musk has challenged Russian President Vladimir
       | Putin to "single combat", with the "stakes" being Ukraine.
       | 
       | > With Mr Putin's name written in Russian and Ukraine written in
       | Ukrainian, the Tesla chief executive tweeted: "I hereby challenge
       | (Vladimir Putin) to single combat.
       | 
       | > "Stakes are (Ukraine)."
       | 
       | The nerve of that guy. Ukraine isn't his to bet.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | wojciii wrote:
         | Give it time.
         | 
         | Its just a matter of time before
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Jox becomes reality.
        
           | justsomehnguy wrote:
           | Oof. Somebody still remember this.
           | 
           | When I saw it in the nineties the ending felt like there is a
           | hope what a solution for a peaceful co-existence _and
           | partnership_ could be found soon.
        
         | FpUser wrote:
         | Cheap PR stunt. Disgusting I would say. This guy on the other
         | hand is real: https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/09/ukraine-war-
         | latvian-mp-j...
        
       | TrispusAttucks wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/W7cuU
        
       | News-Dog wrote:
       | Full Story at;
       | <https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1580546/russian-state-t...>
        
         | blibble wrote:
         | source that isn't the express:
         | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60744605
        
       | cab404 wrote:
       | https://youtu.be/Baj1OXZTuE8
        
       | hunglee2 wrote:
       | Extraordinary intervention at huge personal risk. Her name is
       | Marina Ovsyannikova and she is a hero
        
       | nojonestownpls wrote:
       | This takes no less courage than what Edward Snowden or Julian
       | Assange did - the scale of actions may be different, but the
       | amount of danger they put themselves into, in order to do what
       | they believe is the right thing, is absolutely admirable.
        
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