I’ve read these stories multiple times now and I still don’t quite understand what’s happening.
Why do these people think, burning down the offices does anything? I mean, the “scammers” apparently tell them, it’s their patriotic duty to do so, but what weird mixture of slave mentality and superiority complex do you have to have to think it’s your duty to burn down military buildings for some shady kabal of a patriotic underground?
Well, it doesn’t make it easier to enlist. And it doesn’t target civilians. And it sends the message that there are folks operating in the area that have the means to do these things. No matter who it is.
Are you saying the story the Russian media is telling makes no sense? Because on that I agree, but it’s hard to understand if that’s what you mean, it’s just my best guess.
This kind of narrative, “Our enemies are weak willed patsies falling for phone scams and simultaneously dangerous and capable insurrectionists,” is typical of fascist propaganda. It’s Umberto Eco’s 8th feature of fascism: “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
If you’re wondering why people are really doing it:
It sends a very clear message: stop forcing children to die for your invasion.
Also, the offices exist to facilitate the process of enlistment, so it stands to reason that if they’re destroyed then that process will be slowed, even if just for a while.
People putting their lives on the line to resist imperialism aren’t going to hear much criticism from me.
No, the story the “arsonists” are telling makes no sense. And there’s too little information out there to determine whether this is just a fabrication by the Russian state or actually what happened.
I’ve read these stories multiple times now and I still don’t quite understand what’s happening.
Why do these people think, burning down the offices does anything? I mean, the “scammers” apparently tell them, it’s their patriotic duty to do so, but what weird mixture of slave mentality and superiority complex do you have to have to think it’s your duty to burn down military buildings for some shady kabal of a patriotic underground?
Well, it doesn’t make it easier to enlist. And it doesn’t target civilians. And it sends the message that there are folks operating in the area that have the means to do these things. No matter who it is.
Look up, who this is. Grandmas. And they claim to act on behalf of some patriotic group in the government that is actually pro war.
And that just doesn’t make sense. 90 years old women standing in the middle of the street with Molotov cocktails. Literally, that’s no exaggeration.
Are you saying the story the Russian media is telling makes no sense? Because on that I agree, but it’s hard to understand if that’s what you mean, it’s just my best guess.
This kind of narrative, “Our enemies are weak willed patsies falling for phone scams and simultaneously dangerous and capable insurrectionists,” is typical of fascist propaganda. It’s Umberto Eco’s 8th feature of fascism: “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
If you’re wondering why people are really doing it:
It sends a very clear message: stop forcing children to die for your invasion.
Also, the offices exist to facilitate the process of enlistment, so it stands to reason that if they’re destroyed then that process will be slowed, even if just for a while.
People putting their lives on the line to resist imperialism aren’t going to hear much criticism from me.
No, the story the “arsonists” are telling makes no sense. And there’s too little information out there to determine whether this is just a fabrication by the Russian state or actually what happened.
Both are stupid, but in slightly different ways.