A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans.
Why are questions like this always asked by the media ten years after everyone already knows it’s happening?
Because they’re in on it.
Wait that’s a question? Of course they are doing that.
Russia is also behind man of the far-right parties in europe, like the AfD in germany and the GRN in france. It’s old news at this point honestly.
Russia is also behind Trump and his cronies, and noone can convince me otherwise. They may not have a fearsome military (except for the canned sunshine), but they’re very adept at undermining democracies from within. Because our Achilles heel is stupid people.
We really need to take an offensive against Russia. Information warfare is still warfare, and Russia has been attacking us for years.
You can’t take an offensive against the information war because that would quickly result in authoritarian practices where certain kinds of information are suppressed - you do not want to go there at all.
Social media killed media literacy, that’s the issue. We need to rebuild that.
Oh, I meant a more literal offensive. Blue-and-yellow boots in Moscow.
Hard to attack an atomic super power
Been obvious to everyone not cashing checks for a while.
Or the crazy, Faux News brain rotted people. Or the angry rednecks who don’t care, they’re just happy they can be openly hateful.
Give them a face to rest their boots on, and they’ll cheerfully lick the boots of their rulers.
They’re almost certainly stirring the pot, but the pot was there regardless.
I just want to say that saying only right-wing groups are promoted by Kremlin is American-centric (understandable since most audience on the Internet are Americans, but this leads to insularity in discussions). The far-left is also funded and promoted by Kremlin, especially in Europe where many far-left parties are Russia-apologists, and either have lukewarm support or blame Ukraine for being invaded. There is little information if the American far-left are co-opted by Kremlin. The leftist group, in the broadest sense of the word, is nonexistent in the US because of decades of fear mongering that made the group too insignificant to gain media attention. But if we count Jill Stein and the Green Party as left, then we can say some sections of the left have been compromised by Kremlin, because Stein had been hesitant to call Putin a dictator in an interview.
It’s actually not Russia, it’s all been perpetrated by the oligarch called Shitsherlock, first name No.
Is he related to Michael McDoesntexist?
What amazes me is that Americans still talk about the Cold War like you haven’t lost it. And without a bullet fired.
Yeah, it’s been happening for a while now and we’ve known it.
Our intelligence agencies gave been telling ua this since 2016
Mom wouldn’t let me have ice cream before bed because she’s funded by putler
russia is paying people to downvote me
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Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.
Anyway now that I’ve explained how my domestic political opposition are easily manipulated, let me explain to you how everything bad that’s ever happened is the fault of the outside enemy.
✅ lemmy.ml.
✅ Strawman of what I said.
✅ Posted two days after my comment, yet immediately received an upvote.Learn what a strawman is you fucking baby. It doesn’t mean when someone makes fun of what you say.
And equally you fucking baby: posts stay on ‘active’ for days on this site. Act like you’ve been here.
This isn’t for AntiOutsideAktion. This is for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, so you can be absolutely clear on what happened.
- I responded to the question posed in the headline as follows: “Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.”
My comment was accurate. Despite years of concerted effort by Russia’s defenders and proxies, their troll army is well-documented, and their targeting of right-wing idiots in the United States is equally well-documented. It happened. It’s happening now. - In response, AntiOutsideAktion said this: “Anyway now that I’ve explained how my domestic political opposition are easily manipulated, let me explain to you how everything bad that’s ever happened is the fault of the outside enemy.”
That is a disingenuous and obvious strawman of what I said. I never claimed “everything bad that’s ever happened is the fault of the outside enemy.” The fact that our right-wing dipshits are so easily led astray is entirely on them. - So I called him out on that.
The end. That’s what happened. And that’s why I’m not even remotely interested in his takes on anything else, and he’s going on my otherwise-mostly-empty block list after I post this comment.
✅ crybully crash out
- I responded to the question posed in the headline as follows: “Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.”
Leave “Our” out of sentence to make it more accurate.
More globally accurate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement
It’s fully documented.
They’re also for sale. Don’t forget, they will promote whatever bullshit they are paid to say. No matter how stupid or dangerous.
Tim Pool has entered the room.
Wearing a beanie because he’s insecure about balding.
Some of us baldies wear beanies to keep our heads warm.
Captain Obvious and his arch rival, Captain Oblivious
We sure this isn’t Captain Hindsight in disguise?
One of the defining characteristics of this era is the legacy media from time to time timidly noting the possibility of something that’s been recognized as at least nearly certain down here in the trenches for months or even years.
Of course Russia is co-opting far right groups to attack western democracies. Any honest person who’s been paying attention should’ve figured that out by now - it’s not like they’ve been subtle about it or anything. And it’s been commonly recognized for months now (and less commonly asserted for years).
But at this late date, along comes the Guardian, hesitantly saying, "Um… well… you know… it might just barely be sort of possible that maybe…
It literally led to dozens of convictions in the Meuller Investigation. How anybody can be blindsided by it is beyond me.
Ah! I forgot this macro was actually Nicholas Cage!
