So like
I feel like the fact that Putin bots have tricked a sizeable portion of the online cosplay "left" into literal Assadist genocide denialism should be... bigger news than it is
I feel like the fact that Putin bots have tricked a sizeable portion of the online cosplay "left" into literal Assadist genocide denialism should be... bigger news than it is
I remember a leftist I came up with in college and trusted arguing that "Russiagate" stuff was a distraction in early 2017 and in retrospect I should have treated that as a much bigger red flag than I did
It's been apparent to me since I first started watching Telegram that there were disinfo ops going on trying to push US Nazis towards Assadism, and I am beyond embarrassed that the Nazis managed to keep that shit at arm's length while the left drank it up like we were thirsty
People think Russia shit is high spycraft and it is just not.
And they constantly try to manipulate the left, and we are too naive to see it.
At Occupy Philly, RT hung out and shot propaganda tapes.
At the Cville2DC encampment, Sputnik reporters kept hovering.
And they constantly try to manipulate the left, and we are too naive to see it.
At Occupy Philly, RT hung out and shot propaganda tapes.
At the Cville2DC encampment, Sputnik reporters kept hovering.
Scratch the surface of Grayzone and you find RT, in ways both publicly discoverable and not.
That shit has just *saturated* dirtbag podcast culture, people are just too naive and smug to understand they're being manipulated by a fucking oligarchy state.
That shit has just *saturated* dirtbag podcast culture, people are just too naive and smug to understand they're being manipulated by a fucking oligarchy state.
I honestly don't know how much is just calculated grift, how much is a lazy unwillingness to look critically at narrative sources, and how much is just plain old stupidity.
It's absolutely wild to me that all these tankies are so quick to call scream "US imperialism" any time you look at DPRK sideways but fall all over themselves to pretend like they aren't caping on behalf of a literal oligarchy that promotes genocide in the Middle East.
Anyone who doesn't understand that Russia is heavily involved in manipulating the US left into standing strong for the literal opposite of what our beliefs are is just arrogantly, willfully naive at this point.
There are absolutely liberal Dems who scream "Russia" every time they see their shadow and use it to excuse their faves for being corporate puppets, but this ain't it, folks.
Stop getting played.
Stop getting played.
