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All roads lead to Russia.
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@georgetakei We live where the natives were disappeared en masse, where slavery created this wealth. Come on, now. It's fun to point the finger, but this place always had this, it's just been amplified back.
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@georgetakei the Americans have done that well enough themselves. You'd do well not to blame outsiders before confirming your own house is already in order.
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@georgetakei Alternative take : the applied psychology that brings us the advertising industry, also brought us the Tangerine Shitgibbon.
No wonder politicians fear school lessons in "critical thinking".
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@georgetakei one of Putin’s favorites. “Concepts from the three interflowing currents of Russian fascism—Ilyin’s Christian totalitarianism, Gumilev’s Eurasianism, and Dugin’s “Eurasian” Nazism—appeared in Putin’s discourse as he sought an exit from the dilemma he created for his country in 2012.” —Snyder, Timothy. _The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America_. Crown, 2018.
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@georgetakei The problem is two fold: 1) We no longer teach civics including how to spot propaganda and; 2) The USA has no structure to counter disinformation and propaganda.
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@georgetakei I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the problem isn’t literally always russia. America and americans are solely responsible for what occurs within their borders. If you think people are “misleading” your people, maybe try doing LITERALLY ANYTHING about it. How can you people still, after all these years, fail to identify yourselves as the problem? You could have fixed all of this decades ago. Russia is almost completely incompetent. You’re scared of ghosts.
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@georgetakei @briankrebs my mom was a Cold War Russia scholar. I miss her insight so much these years but I’m also glad she didn’t have to see our fall to them.
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@georgetakei Two roads diverged, and I took the route that made me happy. Screw Trump!
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@georgetakei I read that book in 2016 - had to find a translation in a university library. It's not in general circulation.
Reads like the ravings of a lunatic.
Richard Spencer's wife, Nina Kouprianova has produced a translation and circulated her version around the GOP around that time. Guess they're into lunatic ravings.
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@georgetakei … which does not exonerate people from the guilt that they willingly follow that propaganda and engage in all those divisions and conflicts.
And people can surely argue again forever who has to give in on what points to overcome those divisions. I can already hear the centrists saying that all kinds of progressives “also have gone too far”, also player that playbook and now have to compromise to not play into Russia's interests.
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@KimSJ
In that same book, Osnovy Geopolitiki, #Dugin also suggests to alienate the UK from the rest of Europe… which was achieved with #Brexit in June 2016, just a few months before Trump got elected,
@KimSJ
In that same book, Osnovy Geopolitiki, #Dugin also suggests to alienate the UK from the rest of Europe… which was achieved with #Brexit in June 2016, just a few months before Trump got elected,
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This was long before #putin had anything like the power he has now. In those days he was part of the administration/'machine' in #stpetersburg .
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Feiert schön die Grünen als letzte bürgerliche Partei. Was die euch dreckig verschweigen, ist die militärische Nutzung der Neuralinktechnik, die sie 2004 klammheimlich und klandestin zusammen mit der SPD eingeführt haben. Jetzt haben übrigens die Russen und Chinesen und wohl auch andere die Technik ...
Just sayin'
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Got to give them credit though. They correctly identified, early on, how much of an easy target the US is.
Got to give them credit though. They correctly identified, early on, how much of an easy target the US is.
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It’s not the US that will save Ukraine’s democracy from Russia. It’s Ukraine that will save the US’s democracy by destroying Russia as a function entity.
It’s not the US that will save Ukraine’s democracy from Russia. It’s Ukraine that will save the US’s democracy by destroying Russia as a function entity.
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