#SteveBannon? Who's next to headline @NewYorker festival? Putin? Dugin? Maybe, the editors need a literacy course on the @Kremlin propaganda techniques. There is one called: political pluralism imitation. 👇
1. The Russian-state owned and funded mass media has been employing this model in Russia for a while. Lately, the Kremlin-linked agents are implementing it in the US and other Western countries. The goals differ; the mechanism is the same. 👇
2. the Kremlin propagandists understand the importance of the public opinion and positive image. “The sublimation of emotions on a political topic” is an important part of the engineered collective mentality.
3. Political discussions that include opposing views and liberal opinions are staged on TV and the Internet in order to ensure fully experienced surrogate of reality.
4. The purpose of these political shows is “to imitate the enjoyment of politics” and simultaneously push pro-Kremlin point-of-view in a scripted and centralized manner.
5. In the West, the political discourse exists so the goal is different: by exploiting the familiar concept of the freedom of speech, the Kremlin propagandists hold partially scripted discussions to demoralize the population by sowing further discord, distrust and mutual hatred.
6. The “imitation games” that are a part of the hybrid warfare, often called “asymmetric” or “non-traditional. This type of war is defined by its out-of-the-box methods. It messes with your mind. It attacks your feelings.
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7. In Berkeley, we are familiar wiht the "free speech" exploitation more than anywhere. We have seen it all by now. This was from a bus stop next to us. @NewYorker does not have an excuse of being either educationally underprivileged or intellectually challenged. 
8. This is the matter of a moral integrity. If you are not alarmed by this development, think twice.
