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Hello Friends!~ My Name is Solaris Dreamweaver! The Jester of the Cosmos~ Here for your entertainment! I stream on twitch and i stream whatever the fuck i want.
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Hello Friends!~ My Name is Solaris Dreamweaver! The Jester of the Cosmos~ Here for your entertainment! I stream on twitch and i stream whate
Also my character design is literally an ENA OC but became my own thing quickly
Sonada is the Naiad goddess of the stream~! Now that she's discovering the wonders of the mortal realm, she's looking forward to making new memories~!
Sonada is a Naiad (Greek fresh water Spirit) who was born of the River Lethe and raised in the Underworld.
She grew up fascinated by the forgotten memories of mortals that would drift down the river. Eventually, she left the Underworld to experience the joys and sorrows of mortal life for herself. Her themes carry a heavy symbology of pastels (humanity, hope) bleeding in to replace the drab and muted earth tones (the underworld).
Since coming to the mortal realm, she's discovered the internet and all of the memories it contains, along with one particular new fascination people call "The Stream". She now sets out to learn more and grow closer to humans as The Spirit of The Stream~!
I just watched this with the sound on and i really recommend it because the utter silence of the last teapot is both perfectly predictable and totally remarkable.
this tweet pissed me tf off. if eurovision was created with benign goal to 'bring europe together' after wwii why was the socialist bloc which majorly resided in europe excluded from it? when ussr and its republics were the major victims of wwii?? maybe because eurovision was always an imperialist bloc led project created by eu countries which participated in cold war on the side of us imperialism?
that's also why eurovision heads instant exclusion of russia when russia started defending itself from nato puppet ukraine and its refusal to exclude israel for genocide is not 'hypocrisy' but are perfectly ideologically aligned policies. israel is their imperialist ally while russia resists their imperialism and thus should be punished.
also israel is defacto european settler colonial project so saying its 'non european' in any way is laughable.
trapped in bed under my widdle black cat so im in a reblog frenzy sorry guys but dont worry my phone WILL die and i will be forced to take action any minute now
The current conflict in Ukraine shows that restoring a sense of reality exacts a heavy and bloody toll, writes Laura Ruggeri. On March 10 wh
The U.S. information warfare capability is unparalleled: when it comes to manipulating perceptions, producing an alternate reality and weaponizing minds, the U.S. has no rivals. The U.S. coercive deployment of non-military instruments of power to bolster its hegemony, and attack any state that challenges it, is also undeniable. And thatās precisely why Russia was left with no other option than the military one to defend its interests and national security.
Hybrid warfare, and information warfare as an integral part of it, evolved into standard U.S. and NATO doctrine, but it hasnāt made military force redundant, as proxy wars demonstrate. With more limited hybrid warfare capabilities, Russia has to rely on its army to influence the outcome of a confrontation with the West that Moscow regards as an existential one. And when your existence as a nation is at risk, winning or losing the information war in the Western metaverse becomes rather irrelevant. Winning it at home and ensuring that your partners and allies understand your position and the rationale behind your actions inevitably takes precedence.
Russiaās approach to the Ukraine question is remarkably different from the Westās. As far as Russia is concerned Ukraine is not a pawn on the chessboard but rather a member of the family with whom communication has become impossible due to protracted foreign interference and influence operations. According to Andrei Ilnitsky, an advisor to the Russian Ministry of Defence, Ukraine is the territory where the Russian world lost one of the strategic battles in the cognitive war. Having lost the battle, Russia feels all the more obliged to win the war ā a war to undo the damage to a country that historically has always been part of the Russian world and to prevent the same damage at home. [...]
The U.S. information war arsenal is unmatched because it controls the Internet and its main gatekeepers of content such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipediaā¦ It means the U.S. can exercise control over the noosphere, that āglobe-spanning realm of the mindā that RAND in 1999 was already presenting as integral to the American information strategy. For this reason no government can ignore the profound impact of the Internet on public opinion, statecraft and national sovereignty. Because neither Russia nor China can beat the U.S. in a game where it holds all the cards, the smart thing to do is to leave the gaming table, which is exactly what both powers are doing, each drawing on its specific strengths.
The āinformation war over Ukraineā didnāt start in response to Russiaās military operations in 2022. It was initially unleashed in Ukraine. Since 1991 the U.S. spent billions of dollars, and the EU tens of millions, to tear this country apart from Russia, not to mention the money spent by Sorosā Open Society. No price was deemed too high due to the importance of Ukraine on the geopolitical chessboard. U.S. influence operations led to two colour revolutions, the Orange Revolution (2004-05) and EuroMaidan (2013-14). After the 2014 bloody coup, with the removal of any counterweight, U.S.-NATO influence turned into full control and violent repression of dissent: those who had opposed Maidan lived in fear ā the Odessa massacre being a constant reminder of the fate that would befall anyone who dared to resist the new regime.
The promotion of Neo-Nazi tendencies intensified, together with the cult of Nazi collaborationist Stepan Bandera; members of terrorist organizations such as the Azov Battalion and other ultranationalist groups joined government and the Ukranian National Guard, the past was erased and history re-written, Soviet monuments were destroyed, Russian-speakers faced daily threats and discrimination, pro-Russian parties and information outlets were banned, Russophobia was inculcated in children starting from kindergarten. In 2020 alone ultranationalist projects, such as the āYoung Banderite Courseā, āBanderstadt Festival of Ukrainian Spiritā, etc. received almost half of all the funds allocated by the Ukrainian government for childrenās and youth organisations. [...]
Turning Russia into a scapegoat for all societal and economic problems, fuelling an anti-Russian sentiment was exactly what a myriad of U.S. and U.S.-funded players had been doing since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ukraine, like the rest of post-Soviet countries, was teeming with media outlets, NGOs, educators, diaspora groups, political activists, business and community leaders whose status was artificially inflated by their access to foreign resources and international networks. [...]
Ukraineās population was subjected to the sort of psychological operations that would make it want more of a medicine that not only didnāt cure the disease but could kill the patient. In order to turn the country into a beachhead from which to launch hostile operations aimed at weakening Russia and creating a rift between Moscow and Europe, Russophobia had to become a sort of state religion, anyone who didnāt practise it was to be marginalized and eventually excluded from public discourse. The pressure to conform was so strong that it impaired judgement.
The discursive construction of an enemy required the constant demonization of Russia (Mordor), Russians (uncivilized Eurasian barbarians) and Donbass separatists (savages, subhumans).
When neo-Nazi narratives and Russophobia are normalized and allowed to shape both policies and dominant discourse, when people are āweanedā from critical thinking, from their own history, and wage an 8-year long war against their fellow countrymen, thatās a sign peopleās minds have been weaponized. [...]
The election of an actor on the basis of his convincing performance as a president in a TV series titled āServant of the Peopleā confirmed the successful substitution of politics with its spectacular simulation: it wasnāt simply the blurring of illusion and reality, but the authentication of illusion as more real than the real itself. The majority of Ukrainians voted for a brand new party that was named after the TV fiction and was the brainchild of the same people. A party that even used billboards advertising the series for Zelenskyās election campaign. [...] This virtual reality in turn generates its own discourse. For instance, to foreign audiences the 8-year long war in Donbass that caused 14,000 deaths is less real than images extrapolated from a videogame and passed off as āthe bombing of Kiev.ā Thatās because the war in Donbass has been largely ignored by international media. [...]
With the ban on Russian information outlets, the exclusion and bullying of anyone who seeks to explain Russiaās position, the equivalent of ethnic cleansing of public discourse has been achieved and its cheerleaders have a mad grin on their face that doesnāt bode well. [...]
By and large international media coverage of the war in Ukraine has been not only fictional but also completely aligned with narratives provided by Ukrainian propaganda units that were set up and funded by USAID, NED, Open Society, Pierre Omidyar Network, the European Endowment for Democracy et al. [...]
Ukraine, with the help of foreign consultants and key media partners, built an effective network of PR-media agencies that actively churn out and promote fake news. In NATO countries whoever dares to question the correctness of this information is accused of being a āPutinās agentā, attacked and excluded from public debate. The information space is so heavily guarded that it resembles an echo-chamber. [...]
The West has found refuge in this media-generated make-believe world because it can no longer solve its systemic problems: instead of development and progress we see economic, social, intellectual and political regression, anxiety, frustration, delusions of grandeur and irrationality. The West has become completely self-referential. [...]
The U.S. might be winning the information war in the West but any victory in the parallel universe created by the media could easily turn into a Pyrrhic one when reality reasserts itself.
