• prole
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes I wonder how much of it is right wing astroturf to make all progressives look crazy/stupid.

    Don’t get me wrong, I know Tankies are very real. But just how many of these people actually believe this shit?

    Edit: Like I said, I know that tankies are real. My question is how many of them are real.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, well look up Caleb Maupin. He was a big tankie figure online and even offline, and he had literally worked for RT News in the US and presumably had been in contact with / paid by Russia.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not really “right wing” astroturfing, as you seem to mean it. there are well publicized social media influence operations run by rogue states, with the apparent goal of steering and polarizing political discourse the US and Europe. and you are falling for it.

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        1 year ago

        I’m falling for it? In what way am I falling for it?

        • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I took your comment to mean you believe it is actual right-wing (e.g. Republicans, etc) astroturfing, as opposed to state-sponsored trolls. But perhaps you think of those governments as right wing and that’s what you meant.

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        1 year ago

        So they’re the ones responsible for Trump and Maga and all that bullshit. Technically responsible for our modern right wing nutjob.