No small number of his supporters lean into it — thinking (falsely) that Russia supports their extreme views about firearm ownership and abortion, among other things. Damned fools. Russian government pays for lots of abortions and tightly restricts firearms.
Russian propaganda works on their own cc citizens because they have no access to outside news - but Americans???
Yeah, Americans. Especially using vectors like 4Chan (8kun), Gab, Parler, and other right wing echo-chambers to recruit (often insecure and isolated) young men into the toxic “manosphere” pipeline. youtu.be/f-oIquWO0AQ Russians have been exploiting this relentlessly at least since Gamergate.
Also our “news” is highly compromised by #Russia too
True.
Conditioning over time. Weaponizing fear. They know what they’re doing.
Remember when Dr. Spectre, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan... had psychometric targeting software ready to go, to support Cambridge Analytica’s, Facebook’s, and Brad Parscale’s (San Antonio-based) psyop in 2016? Yes, they do this stuff relentlessly around the world. And are good at it.
I'd completely forgotten that! It's like when you can't succeed fairly their only option is to cheat!
Also the Council for National Policy, Leonard Leo, Farris Wilks, Tim Dunn, Betsy Devos / Erik Prince, yada yada, playbook.
medium.com/@thcarter123...
True villains all. What will they do with all the power they accumulate? It will all be for nothing when they die. And all these oligarchs too. Will they convert all their ill-gotten gains into Travellers cheques?
Start near the bottom of page 146, I suppose …. www.clarkchargers.org/ourpages/aut... It isn’t necessarily an answer that makes me want to emulate O’Brien. But there likely is considerable insight in what the author has O’Brien say. Religious authoritarians map 1:1 directly onto the Party.
Well when you can’t get anywhere based on merits and everyone hates you… Buy your way in That applies to law school, congressional offices, and now the presidency! Bought by #Putin, hostile takeover facilitated by #Elon #Musk #Krasnov #Trump - useful idiot poster boy for a decades-long op.
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#CarelessPeople by #SarahWynn-Williams was an excellent read Exposed #Meta #Facebook for what it is A tool for dictators.