{"id":41708,"date":"2018-12-16T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41708"},"modified":"2018-12-16T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:33:18","slug":"dont-laugh%e2%80%8a-its-giving-putin-what-he-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41708","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Laugh\u200a: It\u2019s Giving Putin What He\u00a0Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t Laugh\u200a: It\u2019s Giving Putin What He\u00a0Wants<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The BBC has published an article<\/a> titled \u201cHow Putin\u2019s Russia turned humour into a weapon\u201d about the Kremlin\u2019s latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare arsenal: comedy.<\/p>\n

The article is authored by Olga Robinson, whom the BBC, unhindered by any trace of self-awareness, has titled<\/a> \u201cSenior Journalist (Disinformation)\u201d. Robinson demonstrates the qualifications and acumen which earned her that title by warning the BBC\u2019s audience that the Kremlin has been using humor to dismiss and ridicule accusations that have been leveled against it by western governments,\u00a0a \u201cform of trolling\u201d that she reports is designed to \u201cdeliberately lower the level of discussion\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Turns out jokes are a Russian disinformation conspiracy.\u00a0Is nothing safe?What will those barbarian Others think of next? Weaponizing our tears? http:\/\/www.<\/span>bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-46567364\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia’s government wants people to have a laugh – as long as it’s at its opponents’ expense, and not Mr Putin’s.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRussia\u2019s move towards using humour to influence its campaigns is a relatively recent phenomenon,\u201d Robinson explains, without speculating as to why Russians might have suddenly begun laughing at their western accusers. She gives no consideration to the possibility that the tightly knit alliance of western nations who suddenly began hysterically shrieking about Russia two years ago have simply gotten much more ridiculous and easier to make fun of during that time.<\/p>\n

Couldn\u2019t possibly have anything to do with the emergence of a demented media environment wherein everything around the world from French protests to American culture wars to British discontent with the European Union gets blamed on Russia without any facts or evidence.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don\u2019t Laugh\u200a: It\u2019s Giving Putin What He\u00a0Wants The BBC has published an article titled \u201cHow Putin\u2019s Russia turned humour into a weapon\u201d about the Kremlin\u2019s latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare arsenal: comedy. The article is authored by Olga Robinson, whom the BBC, unhindered by any trace of self-awareness, has titled \u201cSenior Journalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,17039,284,23514,18933,471,23513,694,857,20520],"class_list":["post-41708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bbc","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-european-union","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-kremlin","tag-olga-robinson","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-western-narratives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41709,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708\/revisions\/41709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}