AI-generated videos promoting Poland’s exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for “Polexit”.

One TikTok account called “Prawilne Polki” published content showing women dressed in T-shirts bearing Polish flags and patriotic symbols, European analytics collective Res Futura said. The content targeted audiences aged 15 to 25.

The videos featured statements including: “I want Polexit because I want freedom of choice, even if it will be more expensive. I don’t remember Poland before the European Union, but I feel it was more Polish then.”

  • plyth@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    The USA are running Nato. To compare minor countries, that still managed to have colonial cruelties, with the USSR, to show that current Russia is more dangerous, doesn’t feel right.

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      4 days ago

      There was a deal that European countries will allow USA to remain an uncontested military hegemon by making sure to not put resources into armaments. We saved a ton of money, and could use that money for nicer things. At the same time USA’s military hegemony gained it influence that it was able to translate into money. Both sides won. And, as a part of that arrangement, the USA was indeed running NATO.

      Now we know that if there will ever be a war where NATO is needed, USA will not come for help. NATO is no longer the USA project it once was. Since we know that USA won’t help, we will not do a shit to help if they want to go for another war against Afghanistan or Iraq or do other similar horrors.

      You say that comparing them to USSR although even they did colonial cruelties is… Weird? How does one country’s colonialism become okay through others managing to do the same in a lesser extent?

      How is the Russia not more dangerous than Germany or Denmark is?

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        We saved a ton of money,

        As US government bonds which financed the US war machine.

        NATO is no longer the USA project it once was.

        Nato is to keep the Germans in and Russia out. Defence has always been secondary.

        How does one country’s colonialism become okay

        It does not. Those countries alone are already comparable to USSR while France, Britain and the US would come on top.

        How is the Russia not more dangerous than Germany or Denmark is?

        Denmark is pushing the internet surveillance. You know the colonial times, the cold war genocides that we ignore. If it is fascist knives out against China, it’s Denmark that made the end of democracy possible.

        Germany is the US tool to reign Europe. Europe is doing the same to its population that Russia did, it just looks friendlier.