• @Candelestine
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    2210 months ago

    While it’s all certainly Americans, and we don’t like genocides, she is correct in assuming that Putin wants Trump to win, and this would be an effective way to further that goal.

    Don’t forget Putin was KGB.

    I imagine it’s more through social media manipulation and misinformation than FSB funding, I suppose I could be wrong. By way of example, though, how many times have you heard that white phosphorous is banned, even though that’s not exactly true?

    • @takeda
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      1110 months ago

      FSB is using social media among other things. Active Measures is one of primary ways how they operated and they adapted it well to the Internet age.

      Have you thought how come that antivaxx people also have very pro Russia anti EU, anti UN anti NATO views?

      Covid was a great catalyst in spreading disinformation.

      Same thing with far right people in US and Europe, how come their views are mostly pro Russia and how come they greatly overlap with antivaxx?

    • @Maggoty
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      210 months ago

      I’ve honestly just stopped doing that explainer because Israel is using it illegally.

      • @Candelestine
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        310 months ago

        True. But the propaganda line doesn’t acknowledge the distinction, and just tries to spread the idea that the US does not care about international law, which is false.

        • @Maggoty
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          210 months ago

          Ahhh yes. I had someone run that with landmines too. According to them we can’t get in compliance with international law until we de-mine the Korean DMZ…

          • @Candelestine
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            110 months ago

            Landmines are also not banned. There’s a lot of subtly misleading bullshit on the internet.

            • @Maggoty
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              110 months ago

              There is a section on them that most of the world has signed. It’s basically the US, Russia, and China that haven’t signed.

              • @Candelestine
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                210 months ago

                It’s a little more complicated than that, because there are many different kinds of landmines. Nobody bans them all.