Matt Placek

Appreciate the share from @apsaitp.bsky.social. If you want to read and don’t have access, let me know. Also, be sure to check out the other awesome articles in the same special issue on digital media in Central and Eastern Europe.

This franchise is a well-oiled machine, I tell ya.

Thanksgiving brisket off to a good start.

Friendly reminder that you still have a day and a half to watch the best (only?) Thanksgiving movie “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” before the holiday is over.

I’m going Metallica- For Whom the Bell Tolls. If I had to pick from the list I’m going with Chop Suey. Might not be the best but I love it. If you like System of a Down, check out Orphaned Land’s album Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs. The first 3 songs are perfect for our profession.

Back to backs are always tough. Especially when your opponent has had several days off.

As one of my PhD advisors told me, “Americanists are just comparativists that focus on a single case.”

Thanks!

This is awesome! Could I be added if there’s space ?

I was done with them when they got rid of The Monkey Cage blog.

Some baseball and a rainbow today at USC Upstate in Spartanburg.

The crux of that for propaganda is that Russia and China need to provide an alternative to western liberal democracy. Usually that means framing democracy as indecisive, polarizing, weak, and hypocritical of values. They use any and all cherry-picked examples to do that.

Correct, modern authoritarianism is less ideologically coherent than historical totalitarianism. It means it’s more adaptive to different conditions (which side note might unfortunately make it more stable).

It’s because they have anti-democratic attitudes and don’t understand how propaganda works in autocracies. It’s easy for any autocratic propaganda to appeal to them because it’s all anti-west anti-democracy by definition.

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How about Poland?

I once couldn’t find my wallet for a day because my then 3 y/o decided it should be in the under seat compartment of his big wheel.

Great minds and such…

I’m going to go ahead and say what every tired parent is thinking this morning. November 1 should be a national holiday.

Oh I don’t blame you. I’m sure I’ll still be watching/impersonating Doofenshmirtz when they no longer think it’s cool.

Automatic like for a Phineas and Ferb reference.

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Hi, would you mind adding me, please?

Can you DM a copy to me (or your email) on the other place? I’m teaching Propaganda and Misinfo in the spring and would love to add it to my syllabus.

Don’t feel bad. My first one was a veiled Dr. Doofenshmirtz reference from Phineas and Ferb.

Does it have a self-destruct button, though? Every good invention has a self-destruct button.