• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Leaders in the west are making it easy for foreign agents to lather up protesters because they provide plenty of material for their pamphlets. If there were no valid complaints, then the efforts would become far more transparent and far less effective.

    Exactly, and we should know how to handle this, when this same thing happened back in the day with KGB agents stirring up shit about Jim Crow, lawmakers said “y’know what, you’re right” and passed the Civil Rights Acts

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      9 months ago

      Well they passed the CRA after decades of deriding anyone who supported civil rights. They blacklisted a lot of people for exactly that

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, that’s true, I guess I was just hoping we could skip to the end of the story this time since we know how it turns out