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Zelensky's Use of Social Media Is Tipping the Scales Towards Democracy
Townhall.com ^ | April 23, 2023 | Ken Blackwell

Posted on 04/23/2022 3:47:07 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

“Zelensky’s Use of Social Media Is Tipping the Scales Towards Democracy”

Zelensky shut down all tv stations and other media that didn’t support him, how is that “tipping the scales towards Democracy” lol.


21 posted on 04/23/2022 6:25:15 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx
Zelensky shut down all tv stations and other media that didn’t support him, how is that “tipping the scales towards Democracy” lol.

Zelensky shut down 3 pro-Russian tv stations before the invasion.

Ukraine: Zelenskiy bans three opposition TV stations

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskiy-bans-three-opposition-tv-stations/a-56438505

22 posted on 04/23/2022 6:29:44 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: tlozo
Zelensky shut down 3 pro-Russian tv stations before the invasion.

Hey Goebbels...you say that like its normal in a funtioning democracy to shut down national media outlets...its not!

23 posted on 04/23/2022 6:37:56 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Kaslin

Democrats only believe in “democracy” when elections go their way.


24 posted on 04/23/2022 6:54:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Humans live on 1/4th of what they eat; on the last 3/4ths lives their doctor. --Egyptian Inscription)
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To: ReaganGeneration2
"Too bad he’s got actual Nazis in his regime"

And that Ukraine is not a democracy under Zelensky.

25 posted on 04/23/2022 7:03:22 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: mac_truck
Hey Goebbels...you say that like its normal in a funtioning democracy to shut down national media outlets...its not!

Get back to me when your hero Pootie allows ONE independent tv station in Russia.

26 posted on 04/23/2022 7:07:53 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: Kaslin

They said the same thing about Obama in 2008.


27 posted on 04/23/2022 7:15:19 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: tlozo

Those stations were just opposition to him, Zelensky. Anyone who opposes him gets missing or dead. It is okay with you as long as it is Zelensky doing the bad guy act.

That is just like his opposition Putin is purported to do. Your link also uses “opposition”.

Two sides of the same miserable coin.


28 posted on 04/23/2022 7:20:30 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: dforest

I think a lot of this praise of Zelensky will not age well.


29 posted on 04/23/2022 7:23:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dforest
Those stations were just opposition to him, Zelensky. Anyone who opposes him gets missing or dead. It is okay with you as long as it is Zelensky doing the bad guy act.

Lol, "Anyone who opposes him gets missing or dead" describes your hero Pootie perfectly.

30 posted on 04/23/2022 7:26:15 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: tlozo

I just said that in my post. Are you lacking reading comprehension?


31 posted on 04/23/2022 7:45:02 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: dfwgator

He reminds me of Obama. All the praise heaped on him for doing nothing that deserves it. He is another one created by the NWO to play a role to further their repulsive world agenda.


32 posted on 04/23/2022 7:49:34 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Socon-Econ

Even Trump was making nice with AMLO in Mexico even after AMLO demanded an open border. They made a deal in the end and AMLO ended up supporting Trump.

Putin certainly didnt try make nice with Zelensky for one minute. The problem isnt borders, its Russia. The default of Russian foreign affairs is hostility and intimidation.


33 posted on 04/23/2022 7:54:10 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Kaslin

What a crock.

Talking about social media is all well and good. Mechanized army divisions do not exist in that sphere.


34 posted on 04/23/2022 7:54:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: mac_truck

It is, in wartime, if the media backs the enemy. The US did the same in WWII, as did Britain.


35 posted on 04/23/2022 7:55:53 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: dforest
Those stations were just opposition to him...

...and it was eight opposition media outlets not just three tv stations. Zelenski subsequently had two of his opponents arrested for treason. The veneer of "democracy" was always quite thin in CIA controlled Ukraine.

36 posted on 04/23/2022 8:03:32 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: buwaya
It is, in wartime, if the media backs the enemy

The media bans and arrests took place a full year ago...well before Russia decided to kick NATO's ass.

37 posted on 04/23/2022 8:08:35 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: buwaya

The US is not at war with Ukraine or Russia. Why are we shutting down any news from Russia?

Unless the US wants to come out and admit it is a proxy war and the US is having Ukrainians do the dying on national TV, which we know isn’t going to happen because it is all state run TV here in the US now.

How laughable saying Zelensky is using social media to tip the scales. Well that isn’t too difficult when anyone who opposes him is banned from major social media platforms or imprisoned.

The same happens in Russia, so that is my point. One side isn’t any more angelic than the other.

The truth out loud is too ugly to admit. The truth about the Biden admin and the NWO cabal is nauseating.

Supporting anything they support is a ticket to hell.


38 posted on 04/23/2022 8:12:24 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: mac_truck

Britain “interned” (imprisoned, in some comfort) Edward Mosley in 1940, along with his wife, and about a thousand other German or fascist sympathisers.

The British even confined the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) in exile in the Bahamas, nominaly as its governor but under close supervision in fact.


39 posted on 04/23/2022 8:16:16 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: dforest

You are American (I assume). I suggest you complain to your representatives about the US ban on Russian media.

I thought you were complaining about the Ukrainians. Their ban on both Russian media and Russian-sympathetic Ukrainian media is very much in line with historic wartime policies enacted by democratic states.


40 posted on 04/23/2022 8:20:55 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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