The Genocide as Reality TV

The Chef’s greatest trick is to turn the genocide he’s a main executioner of into a mere reality TV show. A spectacle for consumption (fortunately alone among the Real People Ukrainians remain focussed on the job in hand).

Source: Succession in Ruschia

To starstruck trolled naifs, like the newspapers of record of many countries, who/which continue to promote the chef, Ruschism, and mafia bosses using the Nazi “Wanger” brand: This is what you promote every time you repeat, as the Chef expected you would, the latest “gossip” in the genocidal soap opera of Bakhmut.

Source: Twitter Note (May 2023)

When genocide becomes a “soap opera” — when mass death becomes content — Spectacle has achieved its purpose. The audience consumes atrocity as entertainment.

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