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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And if you think “haha stupid MAGAs” falling for propaganda, I got news for you buddy, you’ve fallen for it too.

  Good thing you’re immune, though. Now tell me more about how all of the West’s problems are actually because of a vast conspiracy theory of evil foreigners.

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1 - where did I say I’m immune?

    2 - are you ignoring the fact that Russia openly admits to doing this?

    Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere, and we will interfere … Carefully, precisely, surgically, and in our own way, as we know how. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.

    Yevgeny Prigozhin founder of the largest Russian troll farm

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “I didn’t say I’m immune to propaganda! It’s just the propaganda I believe happens to be true! See, here’s an unsourced quote that doesn’t contain any concrete claims but certainly sounds sinister!”

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      • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lol, I just noticed you’re an ML. No wonder you’re desperate to deny anything bad ever came out of Russia. Scuttle back to your tankie echo chamber.

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• M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’ve fallen for propaganda that convinces you that there is an external enemy to worry about instead of actually looking at the situation critically. Right-wing organizations drive right-wing talking points.

  They’ve sown distrust of traditional media and of democratic institutions

  Pretty sure they did that to themselves. I didn’t need Russia feeding me propaganda to see through the bullshit, and many others reached that conclusion on their own. The Fairness Doctrine being repealed is one big reason why traditional media failed. Russia didn’t do that.

  they’ve polarised discourse to that communities that mostly rubbed alongside one another reasonably well now are so idealogically opposed to each other that the middle ground has evaporated.

  Right-wingers and liberals alike have polarized discourse. Leftists aren’t innocent either, especially MLs (many whom seem to be biased towards Russia), but there are plenty that I have interacted with that or witnessed that were exceedingly fair and human.

  Liberals blame anybody to the left of them for not falling in line, constantly mock or berate them for demanding better, and do absolutely nothing to meaningfully do anything to improve their preferred party or improve the human condition in America. As for the right, we all know what they do.

  middle ground has evaporated.

  Politics and governance shouldn’t be a game of tug of war where the right have a monster truck pulling their side and Democrats pretending to hold the rope on their side.

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