• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    But there is no border crisis. There are immigrants claiming asylum. That’s it. The crisis is how Texas decided to spend taxpayer dollars to fight a fake onslaught of “iLlEgAlS”.

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    7 months ago

    I saw a post where someone was listing the reasons Texas would do better as an independent country, they were talking about its economy, freedoms, whatever…

    And the fact that it has “warm water ports”, which is a hot button topic for one country and pretty much nobody else…

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      As someone who has been dealing with Russian propaganda, it works in one of two ways:

      Way I: divide and divide

      1. Find an issue that divides your enemy.

      2. Amplify fringe voice on the issue, make the most divisive element into the most vocal one.

      3. Once the fringe becomes more popular, amplify the opposing voice to grant legitimacy to the fringe elements.

      4. Watch the fireworks.

      Notable examples: environmental movements in the west, antivax, Black/Blue Lives Matter

      Way II: post modernist bullshit

      1. We are maybe right

      2. We are maybe wrong

      3. You can’t trust us

      4. You can’t trust them

      5. You can’t trust anyone or anything

      6. Nothing can be true or can ever be verified

      Harder to point at examples, but if anything becomes an issue that’s talked about you will see a lot of articles that talk a lot and say little to muddy the waters and make the public doubt the truth.

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        7 months ago

        I read ‘The Future is History’ by Masha Gessen and it’s all about Way II. They lay it out in sharp detail via interviews with Russians of all ages. It was eye opening.

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      7 months ago

      Russia is trying to export her Ukraine debacle to North America. Anyone calling for secession, national divorce or any other dissolution of the United States is a Russian asset. If Trump is too explicitly Russian for you, you can fall back onto any of the other neo-confederate suckers the GOP has teed up in their matryoshka primary

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    7 months ago

    100 percent they are lol. I can’t wait until a Ukrainian drone finds its way to a troll farm building. Those 100% should be military targets.

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    7 months ago

    That’s only because USA isn’t helping Ukraine, imagine what Putin would do to USA, if USA was still helping Ukraine! /s

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    7 months ago

    "Hey guys! You should totally have a Civil War over that! D, don’t… Mind what were doing over here in Ukraine.

    Lol"

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    7 months ago

    China is as well, but neither of them understands what he’s asking for… war just makes this country stronger, and going to war with ourselves is how we go Super Saiyan… but they’re trolls, so that’s all they know how to do…