I am not trying to be one of the #geniuses nor do I want to fall into the category of the #imbeciles.
Thus, I keep looking at articles of that kind.
#imbeciles
I am not sure into which category I might fall.
Someone about people discussing #Russia and the war in #Ukraine.
Next, I want to offer a tentative nomenkulature of the folks I will be referring to. They are not a single, monolithic group, but rather a type of “PYSOP choir” with different voices. Here is how I see them:
* Paid for #trolls and other US PSYOP talking point pushers: they are the real deal, folks who do that for a living.
* People who, for whatever reason, hate Putin, Russia or both. For them, literally any event, decision, statement is immediately grabbed and used to “prove” that Putin is weak and indecisive, Russia is losing the war (and has been losing since day 1 and sooner rather than later the Almighty West will defeat Russia. Let’s call these the #haters.
* Then there are those who are in purely for the money. They need to announce all sorts of major defeats, catastrophes, hidden conspiracies, etc. because that generates traffic and money. Let’s call these folks the #clickbaiters.
* Next come the folks who do not have access to the information Putin, the Kremlin and the Russian general staff has, but who feel sufficiently informed (and educated) to explain to the world what the Russians should be doing instead of what they are actually doing. I call them the #geniuses.
* Then they are those who, trained by Hollywood and Tom Clancy, simply know that the West is the shining and most advanced civilization in history and everything it produces, be a people or technology, is just so superior to anybody else’s that an eventual victory of the West against any foe or even coalition of foes is inevitable. I think we can call them #racists (as in racial supremacy).
* Next we have those who really are trying to understand what is going on but simply lack the education/training/expertise to understand. These are the folks who recently smoothly transitioned from being armchair virologists/microbiologists/epidemiologists to armchair generals and marshals. These folks have an opinion on everything, and having that opinion on everything give them this warm feeling of being the real experts. So let’s * Last, but not least, we have to also mention people with no applicable education/training and who are too stupid to realize that they are stupid. We can call them the #imbeciles.