A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans.

https://archive.ph/29a4O

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Why are questions like this always asked by the media ten years after everyone already knows it’s happening?

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Because they’re in on it.

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Wait that’s a question? Of course they are doing that.

Russia is also behind man of the far-right parties in europe, like the AfD in germany and the GRN in france. It’s old news at this point honestly.

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Russia is also behind Trump and his cronies, and noone can convince me otherwise. They may not have a fearsome military (except for the canned sunshine), but they’re very adept at undermining democracies from within. Because our Achilles heel is stupid people.

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We really need to take an offensive against Russia. Information warfare is still warfare, and Russia has been attacking us for years.

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You can’t take an offensive against the information war because that would quickly result in authoritarian practices where certain kinds of information are suppressed - you do not want to go there at all.

Social media killed media literacy, that’s the issue. We need to rebuild that.

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Oh, I meant a more literal offensive. Blue-and-yellow boots in Moscow.

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They’re almost certainly stirring the pot, but the pot was there regardless.

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Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.

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Leave “Our” out of sentence to make it more accurate.

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More globally accurate

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They’re also for sale. Don’t forget, they will promote whatever bullshit they are paid to say. No matter how stupid or dangerous.

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Tim Pool has entered the room.

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Wearing a beanie because he’s insecure about balding.

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Anyway now that I’ve explained how my domestic political opposition are easily manipulated, let me explain to you how everything bad that’s ever happened is the fault of the outside enemy.

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✅ Strawman of what I said.
✅ Posted two days after my comment, yet immediately received an upvote.

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Learn what a strawman is you fucking baby. It doesn’t mean when someone makes fun of what you say.

And equally you fucking baby: posts stay on ‘active’ for days on this site. Act like you’ve been here.

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Been obvious to everyone not cashing checks for a while.

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Or the crazy, Faux News brain rotted people. Or the angry rednecks who don’t care, they’re just happy they can be openly hateful.

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Give them a face to rest their boots on, and they’ll cheerfully lick the boots of their rulers.

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