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Old man believes whatever he sees on cable TV (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To sow general discord within the Anglophone left because:

  1. Sour grapes that their particular brand of socialism is unpopular.
  2. It's a policy goal of the Russian state, and they're algorithmically downstream of Russian info-warfare groups.

Though, not that it's necessarily intentional.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Great to see liberals coming up with their own version the Judeo-Bolshervick conspiracy theory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To be clear: Russians aren't communist or behind everything. Russia's a typical country with an imperialist administration, it engages in information warfare because it helps it win harder at imperialism (the highest form of capitalism).

I'm not even sure convinced they're deliberately targeting MLs, honestly. It seems like the sort of thing that'd self organise inside the communication medium: The platforms they post on will recommend based on factors like your political leaning, material position, etc. So will the people in your social network.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Russians aren’t communist or behind everything.

Whether they're communist or not isn't the relevant part. And you can't go claiming "oh but they're not behind everything" when you invoke them as the secret puppet master behind all your political enemies".

Russia’s a typical country... it engages in information warfare

And yet you only ever invoke Russia as the shadowy puppet master behind your enemies, suggesting it is not typical