• Galactose@sopuli.xyz
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    11 days ago

    Russia has got nothing to do with it. It’s all on the people of USA. No one else

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      11 days ago

      It’s becoming clear there is only one oligarch ruling party in the US, so they’re looking for something new to blame since they can just pass the ball from red to blue anymore.

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        11 days ago

        it’s simpler than that. the oligarch class here and the oligarch class in russia are friends. the inner party, or oligarchs, in china are friends, too. we all live in one imperial top down system that’s designed to look like it’s opposed to itself

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          Russia and China are less corrupt than west because they control oligarchy. Yeltsin was our CIA puppet that gave away Russia to their oligarchs with western financing/profit flows. Putin has reformed corruption, which is why our demonic filth opposes him. China also does not need oligarch support to maintain rule, and in fact spreads prosperity more pluralistically than west does.

          Our corrupt propaganda against Russia needed treason by oligarchs to beg Putin to destroy Russia so they can get their yachts back. We can only project corruption on entire world, and it is the dumb plebs that believe in the strategy.

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      11 days ago

      It has something to do with it inasmuch as it’s in their best interests for the US to destroy itself and they do whatever they can to help it along.

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        11 days ago

        Sure. But the way you counteract oh-so-scary foreign influence is by having institutions and leaders behave in a way that builds public trust.

        Just pointing at some nation on the other side of the planet and saying, “They’re trying to trick you!” does jack shit. It’s misplaced priorities at best and rabid jingoism at worst.

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            10 days ago

            Is this comment an example of misplaced priorities or rabid jingoism?

            Vote now on your phones!

            I never said “making things up”, that’s all you baby

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              "Wikipedia is evil for saying bad things about Ruzzia!!! "

              Yeah about the level of rhetoric I expected from you

              This is why you never win any of the wars you start. Oh, sorry, “special military operation”.

              Operation MEATGRINDER ruahahahahah

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                  Because you’re pathetically avoiding discussing Russian disinfo, and instead just pretend any implication that any exist is “rampant jingoism” or some other ridiculous bullshit.

                  Honestly if you were a bit smarter maybe one Finn (or modernly Ukrainian actually) wouldn’t be equivalent to 10 Russians. As it stands, we and they very much are.

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          You’re grossly underplaying the influence foreign governments have had on each other within the past century. They’re going above and beyond “trying to trick you.”

          They’re heavily investing in popular talking heads to support a path of radicalization, buying ads that target voters on Facebook, forming special interest social media groups, manipulating social media with bot farms, heavily bribing politicians, blackmailing the powerful, recruiting millionaires, lobbying policy, running a counterintelligence campaign, running hacking operations, and more that we don’t even know. They’re weaponizing intelligence and trying to convert people’s opinions to their advantage so that their opponents crumble from within. And they’re damn good at it.

          Nobody’s “just pointing” at Russia or other countries. We have a recorded history of them doing it, and we can trace it back to them. They’re all doing it.

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            OK great. Amend your comment to mine. The last point still stands:

            You counteract forgiven influence by giving people a reason to trust their local institutions. By delivering positive material change to hundreds of millions. Without that, it is just pointing fingers and complaining.