When you control the media telling everyone what to think, it's not much of a surprise is it? Hitler did it, Putin did it, Trump is trying his damnedest and is mostly there...

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know what you are getting at and to an extent you aren't wrong but Russians definitely have access to foreign information. They also have a tendency to find state propaganda laughably easy to spot (according to the Russians I have spoken with). They support the war because it benefits them IMO

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh sure, the same goes for everywhere else as well... but being blasted with propaganda 24/7 is a huge problem for the majority of people all over the world. Just like we all know about fox news, but if they had treated trump like they did the democrats, trump would have had a much harder battle to fight.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is false.

There are sociological approaches to test for this and the results are damning for russian society; a strong majority of them (~65%) are open supporters of genocidal imperialism. Another 20% (for a total of ~85%) are supporters of imperialism without open support for genocide.

These are preference falsification (i.e. lying in a poll because you don't want to reveal your true views) adjusted numbers, the nominal numbers are even higher.