@book 🤣
"Ugly 3" is actually quite nice. It's sometimes humorously called «буква зю» — letter zyu. And зю looks a bit like aum/om 🕉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om
@DotardTed @Mummabear
@book Oh yes, and especially the so-called war reporters (a special kind of propaganda outlets)! Not everyone is fond of this Z though even here in Russia, sometimes it's even hated upon. Not openly — no one wants to get reported to the cops who are eager to persue you for it instead of dealing with real crime. I've seen a fair share of photos of car windows with Z plastered upon them smashed.
@DotardTed @Mummabear
@book Well, of course I'm biased, but if you live here it's not that hard to tell what's grassroots and what's not. Especially with propaganda — it's the use of certain language and following the agenda closely. Real person doesn't act like that — they do pick that vocabulary off the TV, but they don't speak like that all the time and they don't switch topics like there was no yesterday 🤷
@DotardTed @Mummabear
>it's the use of certain language and following the agenda closely.
You mean like adding an Asterisk: THIS IS OBVIOUSLY PROPAGANDA to anything Russian?
@book No, like using "special military operation" instead of calling it war. I can imagine real person using that if he's interviewed on the street — there were cases of being persecuted for that and people are reluctant to say "war". But if you use "special military operation" in a Twitter comment. Using an account that is hard to trace to real person! In English! That doesn't fucking look natural at all 🤣
@DotardTed @Mummabear
>No, like using "special military operation" instead of calling it war.
If it was a war, Kiev would be gone.
@book Sure, man, we didn't even get started yet. It didn't happen in the first days with the amount of tanks that could've just steamrolled Kyiv not because of modern anti-tank weapons donated by the UK and not because of sheer incompetence that made the long tank columns stuck in the mud, but because Putin was too kind 😏
@DotardTed @Mummabear
@m0xee @book @DotardTed I still thinks Z=zombie
>(a special kind of propaganda outlets)!
Everything Putin does is propaganda but
> I've seen a fair share of photos of car windows with Z plastered upon them smashed.
Anything anti-Putin is unambiguously real news