Marcus @MappingMarcus

Govern the state by being straightforward; Wage war by being crafty — Tao Te Jing, 57 以正治国，以奇用兵。 Москва, Россия Joined June 2009

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Iran Embassy Hungary @IRANinHUNGARY

2 days ago

Don't stop talking about Gaza!😥 #Gaza #WarCrime

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

13 hours ago

Love the show Neil. One thing: 'Opportunity cost' is the value of the next best thing you give up when you buy something (ie buying player X means we don't buy player Y). Think the expression you need is 'market opportunity' - a gap in the market you take. @LoveMcGrathpod

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

15 hours ago

@mrsDugskullery Ah, they found another clone.

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

17 hours ago

@ProudSocialist Going to need to get organised very, very well.

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Pascal Laurent @Pascal_Laurent_

21 hours ago

🇷🇺 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 LA RUSSIE A COMMENCÉ À PLACER DES BÂTIMENTS DE GUERRE EN MER BALTIQUE. La frégate Amiral Kasatonov de la flotte du nord est entré en mission, il est est équipé notamment de missiles Kalibre et Zirkon. Un bâtiment de lutte anti-sous-marine, le Levchenko est également dans la mer Baltique, il est équipé de torpilles, d'artillerie, de systèmes de défense aérienne et d'hélicoptères de combat. Les occidentaux veulent jouer aux pirates, voici le début de la réponse russe et qui sait ce qu'il y a sous l'eau ?

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

21 hours ago

@proud_diplomat Part of the problem of people not knowing history, or knowing a distorted view of it, is that when propagandists retell old tropes to manipulate its population, the people think it's true because it 'smells' true. Soviet human meat waves from WWII a particular case in point.

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

24 hours ago

@drago_ek @jackprandelli Tick-tock. Won't be there forever, or in the same quantities.

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

2 days ago

@ChavieVina67151 @pawelwargan Projection explains a lot of human action.

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Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan

2 days ago

The prevailing theory of why people in the post-Soviet world succumbed so quickly to various kinds of mysticism, pseudo-science, marketing, etc. is that, having been brought up on a diet of “Soviet propaganda”, they lacked the “media literacy” to critically assess the information confronting them in a “free” media environment. My long-running hypothesis is that the exact opposite is true. Much of Soviet media programming was factual. It concerned questions of direct relevance to people's lives. How many tractors were delivered to this or that region? How much grain was harvested, how much steel produced? For a time it was fashionable in the West to mock such stories as the marks of a primitive society. But when supply chains falter and supermarket shelves empty, you realise how little you know about your own society's capacity to withstand hardship — how little grounds you have to assess your country's sovereignty. Other Soviet programming answered direct social and cultural needs: children's education, travel, history, science and technology. And Soviet political commentary has largely stood the test of time; people still return to old Soviet reporting on the West for its correct analysis of racism, policing, imperialism, colonialism, and militarism. This kind of programming aimed to cultivate an educated populace that shared common aims within the state. Of course, many Soviet citizens had developed a critical eye towards official narratives, especially in the USSR’s waning years. But, as an institution, television carried a certain weight. It was assumed, at least, that information ran through accountability mechanisms. Its purpose was not to deceive you as an individual, or to pit you against others in the marketplace. This also avoided the kinds of issues that are endemic to the US, where technologies of manipulation and deceit have produced a population that considers Fox News versus CNN — two mega-corporations representing factions of the same oppressing class — to be a legitimate axis of political antagonism. If this isn't an example of a population that is propagandized to the bone, then I don’t know what is. In the 1990s, a heavy diet of capitalist propaganda was superimposed on the accumulated authority of the institution of socialist television. It targeted a people for whom the idea of being consumers was alien — and who were unaccustomed to the kind of ritual manipulation that capitalism had perfected. If Soviet television had any advertising at all, it was to show you what was available for sale, and where you could buy it, rather than to convince you to buy one product over another. Suddenly, all kinds of peddlers and charlatans appeared on the scene, pitching trash as treasure, and people fell for it en masse. Indeed, the data showed that people in the post-Soviet world were unusually susceptible to marketing — a mark, perhaps, of a high degree of institutional trust rather than gullibility. Across the region, you can still see the extent to which older people look to television as authoritative, buying overpriced knock-offs through telesales channels because they offer “good deals” or “better quality”. My working hypothesis is that the collapse of the USSR is a case study in what happens when you introduce capitalist propaganda to a society used to trusting its institutions. The implication, of course, is that it is us in the West who dramatically underestimate the degree to which propaganda helps structure our worldview.

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

2 days ago

@ChutkoChris @MonkeyDCels @suutsprite @Dee_BTC_ @nypost Claims presented without evidence can be dismissed without further thought. Think that goes for your claims quite well.

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Will Schryver @imetatronink

3 days ago

🤔 We are now 1634 days into the last-gasp western imperial war against Russia. We are at the point where the empire has effectively exhausted its arsenals, and is reduced to launching Molotov cocktail Vergeltungswaffen into online retailer warehouses in Moscow. Kind of ironic.

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

2 days ago

@ChutkoChris @MonkeyDCels @suutsprite @Dee_BTC_ @nypost I have no idea what "budget records show demobilisation isn't happening" means. Your argument seems to be resting on a vague statement. Individual soldiers finish contracts and end their tours of duty. That's different from an entire army demobilising.

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Marcus @MappingMarcus

2 days ago

@chris_j_wallis @GarySmithJnr @HabZ360 He's more a finisher than a starter. Loses out in the physical battles and his passing is often half a metre out. He seems to thrive later in games when there is more chaos. Would be interested to know the breakdown of his G+A first half v second half and as a starter v sub.