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Enough Musk Spam

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A former FBI special agent is currently out on $100,000 bond after being arrested for attempting to expose what he described as a covert Russian intelligence campaign to gain influence over leading American tech figures—namely Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. The agent, a decorated counterintelligence officer with nearly two decades of service, specialized in Russian espionage operations and had previously been commended for his work uncovering sleeper cells and disinformation networks operating inside the U.S.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be shocked if it were true, but this article looks completely made up.

The FBI agent isn't named. Despite claiming there are "legal filings" no court is named. There are no links or citing sources. There are no specific allegations including dates, specific actions taken by Russia intelligence or by Musk/Thiel in response.

It looks honestly like the article itself is part of typical Russian misinformation meant to pull the left further away from the right, and reduce credibility and factual signal by adding tempting noise.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

His Name is Jonathan Buma

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/trump-musk-putin-100.html

It's way more likely that youre part of russian propaganda than the ZDF documentary being part of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The dude could still be a fake, as honest as ZDF is. It's just a report on the guy saying things, after all.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This website looks shady as hell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

IP logger...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Domain name created: 2024-11-28 13:23:12 UTC.

Registrant, Organization, and Tech Contact, etc. all privacy protected. Hosted on GoDaddy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always assumed that all the personal american citizen data that the doge people stole went on a disk and was shipped directly to russia. Occam's razor and all that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't need a disk when you've got starlink

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The "cloud" is just somebody else's disk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both of these men are traitors to the United States, but then the United States are traitors to the American people. So, I mean, whatever. Any time I hear blame Russia, I just think about the 2014 coup that the United States sponsored in Ukraine. Russia is a capitalist shithole and so is the United States. Russia had every right to defend its sovereignty and its boundaries. The United States sowed division. When I heard we were going to war with Russia, I was like why the fuck are we going to war with Russia? Also, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this whole adversarial attitude towards China. We created the monster. I think nowadays the intelligence community is just appealing to the lowest common denominator and the propaganda is less sophisticated, at least to me. The world is capitalistic. There's no boogeyman anymore. So they just stir shit up. Lie to their own public. Manage Perception. Since we have no opposition to any of this anymore, and the Capitalist have hoarded all the wealth, the only way to make money anymore is the military industrial complex. World War 3 is right around the corner. I mean we're already in it now but things will just escalate. Also, look at our leadership nowadays. Sleepy Joe and the Burger King are the terrible speakers. Unimpressive reprobates with trashy families. It seems like they're not trying anymore, which in a way frightens me a little bit. We are in the era of Limp Dick leaders.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dude, you need to adjust your bot paramaters. Without paragraphs and new lines it becomes too obvious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A dumbass pimp can get these fuckers tech giants doesn't mean intelligent it's usually the proletariats that are intelligent and I haven't seen a bourgeoisie that was intelligent at one point.