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.
Who needs Russia for that? Is it because of the 4chan outage?
Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.
They’re also for sale. Don’t forget, they will promote whatever bullshit they are paid to say. No matter how stupid or dangerous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement
It’s fully documented.
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.
✅ lemmy.ml.
✅ Strawman of what I said.
✅ Posted two days after my comment, yet immediately received an upvote.
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.
/shockedface
One of the defining characteristics of this era is the legacy media from time to time timidly noting the possibility of something that’s been recognized as at least nearly certain down here in the trenches for months or even years.
Of course Russia is co-opting far right groups to attack western democracies. Any honest person who’s been paying attention should’ve figured that out by now - it’s not like they’ve been subtle about it or anything. And it’s been commonly recognized for months now (and less commonly asserted for years).
But at this late date, along comes the Guardian, hesitantly saying, "Um… well… you know… it might just barely be sort of possible that maybe…
Yes. Next question.
