#ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideRainbow #ToponymEastMiddleQatar #ToponymEastMiddleSaudiArabia

#OrgClassifPPGHNationalDemocraticCongressNDCSamNarteyGeorge "they really have need for it but it's the hypocrisy of the US where they call homosexuality a human rights issue in Africa but yet they are doing business with countries where homosexuality is frowned upon over a billion dollars of of of of of military hardware is so to cut almost on a yearly basis in Qatar homosexuality is punished by Death not imprisonment why are they not threatening cut up one of the biggest trading partners of the United States government is Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia it's punished by Death why are they not threatening them why are they not threatening Russia then they come to Ghana and Africa they won't come and treating us with LGBTQ the American government is a bunch of Hypocrites if they really want to flex their muscle they should reflect their muscle on Russia." ^{[video clip]} And #WebsiteNairaland https://www.nairaland.com/7630962/uganda-president-hits-back-president#122368079 #TauntHypocrisyLiberal #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #ToponymAfricaWestGhana #HandleTelegramInfoDefense https://t.me/s/infodefall

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Context #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD "Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, jurisdictions and tech platforms around the world have taken steps to prevent or limit the spread of Russian propaganda internationally. There is, however, an additional constraint hampering the efforts of Russia and its supporters in spreading disinformation: language. This Dispatch investigates a coordinated network of volunteers working to translate existing Russian-language propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine into over a dozen languages. This includes content from pro-Kremlin influencers, particularly the controversial Ukrainian blogger Yuri Podolyaka, as well as Russian state media sources. The volunteers, who have branded themselves 'Info Defense', operate Telegram channels for each of the target languages. They also administer specifically-branded Info Defense accounts on YouTube, and disseminate their content across the major international social media networks through a multitude of smaller accounts. The significance of this network is at the base level in which it functions : a grassroots, relatively decentralised and cost-free network for the translation and distribution of propaganda. This model may appeal to both state- and non-state actors seeking to promote narratives and content to international audiences, and is likely to pose a challenge for platform content moderation efforts.... In a video message promoting the newly formed translation network, Podolyaka elaborated on the role which he saw himself and his supporters playing in support of Russia's war in Ukraine. He spoke at length about the way in which media coverage and information about the war in Vietnam helped to deplete domestic support for the war in the US, ultimately leading to the US's defeat and retreat from Vietnam. According to Podolyaka, if the public in Western countries only knew that Russia was really fighting against evil Nazis in Ukraine, they would force their governments to abandon the fight, as they did in Vietnam. 'This is the truth that they want to hide from their societies, and our task is to bring this truth to them,' he said." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-info-defense-network-crowdsourcing-soldiers-for-the-information-war/ #IRLYouTuberYuriPodolyaka #2022_InvasionOfUkraine #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasDonetskPeoplesRepublicDPR #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasLuhanskPeoplesRepublicLPR #HandleTelegramTheEyeOfTheStormTEOS #HandleTelegramTheNodeOfTime #VlogCommonsence7885 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Wjx44gRwQ #NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam #NarrativeDenazification #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #NMRURussiaTodayRTMargaritaSimonyan #PhenomnTalkingPointsRussian #OrgSyndicateAccordNetworkDecentralised #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson

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Supplementary #BrandGraphikaBenNimmo, #BrandGraphikaIraHubert and #BrandGraphikaYangCheng "The sprawling pro-Chinese propaganda network that Graphika has dubbed 'Spamouflage' and exposed multiple times over the past two years has begun to break out of its echo chamber of fake accounts and reach real social media users, including some heavyweight influencers, with hundreds of videos that praise China, criticize the United States, and attack the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement and exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. The network's successes are still sporadic - a few tweets have reached viral influencers, and a few dozen videos on YouTube channels have garnered significant followings - but, for the first time, its content has had measurable reach. Moreover, the audiences it has reached are widespread and include influencers in Latin America, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Combined with the sheer scale of the network, and the fact that it has reconstituted itself after repeated takedowns, these features mark Spamouflage as a persistent and increasingly assertive online presence with a limited but growing ability to engage real users." https://graphika.com/reports/spamouflage-breakout #PhenomnSpamouflageDragon Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis (2020). 'Viral videos Covid-19, China and Inauthentic Influence on Facebook', Australian Strategic Policy Institute. ^{[academic source]} https://voxukraine.org/en/fake-the-dead-girl-in-a-photograph-from-bucha-turned-out-to-be-alive-and-denied-her-death/ #ToponymEuropeUkraineKyivOblastBucha #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation #_Focal

#BrandWorldStratJimHanson #OrgIntlWEF

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Supplementary #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationNCCNatCon #2025_NationalConservatismConferenceNatCon5 ^{[Wikipedia] [tweet]} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMuccUS0SI https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-5-2025/presenters/jim-hanson/ #ToponymEastMiddleQatar #OrgIntlMuslimBrotherhood #BeliefTheismIslamismCaliphate #BeliefTheismIslamism #ConspiracyTheory_GreatReplacementEurabia

#IRLPhilanthropistBillGates #OrgIntlWEFKlausSchwab #CaricaturistBobMoran

#2022_FIFAWorldCupQatar #TauntHypocrisyWestern 

#BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistMattWalsh  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ypFc7wZMu8&t=84s #IRLJournalistGrantWahl #TauntArrogance 

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Context #NMEUEuronews https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/22/us-sports-journalist-says-he-was-detained-at-qatar-world-cup-over-lgbt-rainbow-shirt

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Addendum this appears to present a criticism, which is wholly based on #TheoryCulturalImperialismWestern however the argument actually sits within a broader frame, one positioned in terms of #TheoryInstrumentalism - that #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives, when in reality criticism of #ToponymEastMiddleQatar's outlawing of #IdentityLGBTQIA rights is actually about #IRLPhilosopherKarlPopper's #TheoryToleranceParadox - that supporting such laws, makes you complicit in promoting intolerance, which by its nature undemocratic i.e. anti #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech - anti the very thing, which Walsh consistently argues for. So, in this sense, Walsh's argument can only be interpreted as disingenuous (and likely, opportunistic).

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IdentityLGBTQIA #OrgClassifPPBEOpenVlaamseLiberalenEnDemocratenAlexanderDeCroo #MetaphorSpatialHeadInTheSand Graphic by #BrandSaldesignMarkSalden

The Qatar World Cup is sexist because there are only teams made up of men! BoycottQatar2022 Qatar2022 CoupeDuMonde WorldCup2022 WorldCup MarieCharlotte Garin MarieCharlotteGarin sexism feminism feminism football eelv wokism woke masculinism" #2022_FIFAWorldCupQatar #ToponymEastMiddleQatar #OrgClassifPPFREuropeEcologieLesVertsEELVMarieCharlotteGarin ^[Wikipedia]

#NewspaperFRBrdshtLeMondeBenjaminBarthe "In Qatar, protesting against discriminatory laws is discouraged. Three citizens of the small Gulf emirate, which is due to host the FIFA World Cup in six months, were sentenced to life in prison in mid-May for loudly denouncing a law barring them from participating in a election. A fourth, who had also fought against this denial of rights, was given a 15-year prison sentence. All four appealed against this judgment, delivered on May 10 and made public a few days later." https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/24/au-qatar-la-prison-a-perpetuite-pour-trois-opposants_6127436_3210.html #ToponymEastMiddleQatar #OrgCHFIFA #MagazineFRLePoint "Russian justice confirmed, Tuesday, May 24, on appeal the nine-year prison sentence in 'severe regime' of the main opponent Alexeï Navalny, tried for 'fraud' and 'contempt of court'. 'The verdict of the Lefortovo court of March 22 is unchanged,' said a judge of the Moscow City Court, indicating that it came 'into effect immediately'. At first instance, on March 22, the charismatic anti-corruption activist, who was already serving a sentence in a so-called 'normal regime' colony, was sentenced to nine years in prison in a 'severe' regime, where the conditions of detention are harsher." https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/la-justice-russe-confirme-la-condamnation-de-l-opposant-alexei-navalny-24-05-2022-2476829_24.php #OrgClassifPPRUSRussiaOfTheFutureAlexeiNavalny

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Supplementary "The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country's prison service has said, in what is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/russian-activist-and-putin-critic-alexei-navalny-dies-in-prison #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin

#OrgAFTalibanAbdulGhaniBaradar #OrgAFNtlIslamicMovementOfAfghanistanAbdulRashidDostum #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #OrgAFTalibanMawlawiHaibatullahAkhundzada #OrgAFTalibanMohammadYaqoob #OrgAFNtlIslamicMovementOfAfghanistanBismillahKhanMohammadi

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Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJulianBorger "Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years ago, has emerged as an undisputed victor of the 20-year war. While Haibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban's overall leader, Baradar is its political chief and its most public face. ... In 2018, however, Washington's attitude changed and Donald Trump's Afghan envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, asked the Pakistanis to release Baradar so he could lead negotiations in Qatar, based on the belief that he would settle for a power-sharing arrangement. 'I had never seen any real substantiation of that point, but it just took on a kind of mythic idea,' the former official said. Baradar signed the Doha agreement with the US in February 2020, in what the Trump administration hailed as a breakthrough towards peace but which now appears a mere staging post towards total Taliban victory. The US and Taliban agreement not to fight each other was supposed to be followed by power-sharing talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government of Ashraf Ghani. Those talks stumbled along with little progress, and it is clear now that Baradar and the Taliban were playing for time, waiting for the Americans to leave and preparing a final offensive. Baradar's life has taught him patience and confidence in ultimate victory." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/talibans-abdul-ghani-baradar-is-undisputed-victor-of-a-20-year-war (15 August 2021). #2018_ #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLDiplomatZalmayKhalilzad #ToponymEastMiddleQatar #2020_DohaAccord #ToponymAfghanistanKabul #IRLPoliticianAshrafGhani

#ToponymEastMiddlePalestine #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael #ToponymAfricaNorthEgypt #ToponymUnitedArabEmiratesUAEDubai #ToponymEastMiddleSaudiArabia #ToponymEastMiddleJordan #ToponymEastMiddleTurkey #ToponymEastMiddleKuwait #ToponymEastMiddleLebanon #ToponymEastMiddleBahrain #ToponymEastMiddleQatar #IRLModelBellaHadid

#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKMatthewGoodwi ^[tweet] #IdentityMuslim #PolicyRightsHuman #CauseHumanRightsViolation #ToponymEastMiddleQatar

"Black History Month. We Support the Black Takeover Of the UK" #EventBlackHistoryMonth #BrandSupermarketSainsburys #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos ?