Why do Republicans have to be secretly in the thrall of the Russians to be evil? Can’t the Republicans just be scum based on their own will?
They are, but they also serve foreign interests.
They’re easily manipulated, the Republican party has made sure of that by keeping schools shit there for decades. You have entire generations of people that will do whatever they’re told
Can you really fault Putin for using such an easy target?
They don’t have to be, but they are.
Sometimes they do things that serve themselves, sometimes the American Oligarchy. Sometimes they do things that serve the Russian one. I think its important to be clear which.
What to me will never stop being funny is that the group that was the most anti-red, the group that would happily end someone’s carreer over some faint implied relationship to Russians, that always was the self proclaimed redski hunter, the group that always talked about bombing some freedom into dictators…
That group
That group is the same group that now went fully behind a fascist dictator wannabe who is controlled by a Russian actual dictator
It goes to show, this group, the Republicans, the conservatives, they have no ethics or morals, the leaders will say or do anything to stay in power, lie, steal, cheat, and their supporters are mostly either dumb or racist, mostly both
And they’ll never stop making sure you know what they’re thinking, they are the prototype loud mouthed arrogant “we’re number one babey, yeeaaaahhh!!!” Americans
Fucking pathetic
Your first point makes no sense when everyone knows Russia hasn’t been red for nearly a generation.
Not to imply that he’s a swell guy, but Putin is neither fascist nor a dictator. Regardless of whatever election irregularities, he really has been popular throughout his tenure. And for good reason: he kicked the Western capitalist neoliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country, whom Yeltsin let in. It’s still a capitalist shithole, but at least it’s their shithole and not a neocolonized state anymore.
They want the Confederacy back. As in an oligarchy with slaves based on race. Modern day Russia is pretty close to that, as were a lot of the Latin American dictatorships, which they also supported.
The main issue with the Soviets in their eyes, was that the Soviets at least pretended to have some decent values. Something, which they despise in other groups as well. Take for example the Democrats.
Labeling everyone as ‘traitors’ might feel satisfying, but it kills any chance of persuasion. Better to stick to specific actions/evidence and hold those accountable.
I really agree with you. Divisive language will only get us more division.
Most Republicans hate Russia and Putin. So this makes sense.
we need a revolution to stop trump - the hardest part is convincing most republicans about the truth about trump. seriously!
They’re literally turning America into Russia and the bootlicks are cheering it on calling it “manly” when cucking for a makeup wearing pedofile is the least “manly” thing one can do….pathetic
This is dumb as shit, completely pointless.
The fuck, Russian doesn’t control shit, they can’t even control their own troops half the time.
Trump’s just a shithead who will do almost anything when praised by powerful people, especially if given a shiny object.
There are people in Reform UK that have been paid to spew Russian propaganda and I’m fairly certain Tulsi Gabbard has a similar thing going on. Not to mention that Witkoff dude who’s obviously just on team Russia
Also, the ties run all the way from the US, across Europe and into Russia via CPAC and Heritage Foundation and more recently the Christian Orthodox church
So yea, I dunno if “control” is the right word but they defo coordinate
Most definitely agree. There’s influence, but it’s not a yes sir Mr Putin kinda thing.
Idk man, you remember that time when Republicans went to Russia for July 4th? Russia might not be able to control their troops, but they have enough dirty money they can buy some US politicians.
I figure that’s because Russia hates the gays and is ultra right as a government so it does not take much to buy some of the members of the GOP. Doesn’t mean the government as a whole is compromised by Russia.
None of this is simple, and anyone blaming a single source or calling it simple is trying to mislead.
The USA
- Over throws the Russian government
- Throws an election and installs a president
- American oligarchs work with Russian oligarchs and leaders to subject the Russian people shock therapy
- A US ally takes control and US works with him for years
- The US literally takes billions of their dollars and freeze their access to accounts and access to global finance and doesn’t return it or roll it back
- The Russians continually try and reestablish ties to get their cash back and fail
- The Russians are drawn into a war of attrition against the US and have to switch to a war economy just to survive
- Despite somehow controlling the USA, still haven’t gotten access to international capital or their own money
US libs:
OMG THE RUSSIANS TOOK OVER
Americans are so dumb it is unbelievable. You’re fucking them hard right now and you think they took over? You’re just salty your shit ass government is doing to you what you did to my family.
You have picked your lemmy instance perfectly
Some advice for you
- Locate your avatar in the top right of the screen and select “Settings”
- Select “Delete Account”
- Enter your password and select “Delete”
In the english speaking world, remembering anything that happened more than one year ago makes you crazy.
So many Russian misinfo apologists itt
Might help if centrists could stop calling people to their left fascists and russians for disliking genocide.
But then they’d have to defend the indefensible
They defend the democratic party all the time.
The world does not revolve around genocide, good god, can we see the world at large beyond a single topic? I’m not even a centrist, and I know that’s not the reason for the name-calling.
The world does not revolve around genocide, good god, can we see the world at large beyond a single topic?
Sure, the Nazis did the Holocaust, so that’s one point against, but their uniforms looked pretty sharp, so that’s one point in favor. All in all, pretty much neutral. I don’t see why people get so hung up on one single topic.
That doesn’t quite fit what I’m saying, but I’m glad you found the opportunity to regurgitate one of your comments I’ve read a while ago.
I frequently call out bullshit attempts to minimize literal genocide as being “just a single issue,” so I’m not surprised it sounds similar to something I’ve said before.
It does, however, fit exactly with what you said.
Nobody’s minimizing anything. I’m saying you and Ensign_Crab are overstating the role that genocide plays in this one topic.
So how does your comment fit that? It’s a thought-terminating saying that you like to repeat as if it proves a point. That’s it. Don’t come at me with your bullshit, either.
I genuinely don’t see how it’s possible to reason with this bullshit.
“Not minimizing, just saying that you’re overstating,” what? Do you not recognize the obvious contradiction in that?
So how does your comment fit that?
I don’t see how you’re struggling to make the connection, it’s literally just swapping out one genocide and one perpetuator of genocide for another, keeping the words and logic exactly the same. I’m not (sarcastically) “minimizing” the Holocaust, I’m just “saying that you’re overstating” the Holocaust in (presumably) concluding from it that Nazis are bad, without considering other factors, such as how they dress.
Brother, you realize that the original statement by Ensign_Crab makes no sense, right? They’re using genocide to grind their axe and have admitted as much. You two are using a hot topic like genocide as an excuse to rail against people and pick a fight. My criticism is a meta comment about that.
What doesn’t make sense is what you’re accusing me of when you haven’t realized why I’m saying it.
The world does not revolve around genocide,
The democratic party does.
I’m not even a centrist, and I know that’s not the reason for the name-calling.
You’ve never called genocide wrong, so centrists don’t call you a russian.
The purity of our blessed country and it’s founding fathers must never be impungned. All corruption originates with those filthy foreigners, who are ontologically evil, and to suggest otherwise is proof of heresy, of being corrupted by the foreigner.
Washington protects.
Death to all xenos!
Anti-fascism has absolutely nothing to gain from dumb lib conspiracies.
Russia has got nothing to do with it. It’s all on the people of USA. No one else
It has something to do with it inasmuch as it’s in their best interests for the US to destroy itself and they do whatever they can to help it along.
Sure. But the way you counteract oh-so-scary foreign influence is by having institutions and leaders behave in a way that builds public trust.
Just pointing at some nation on the other side of the planet and saying, “They’re trying to trick you!” does jack shit. It’s misplaced priorities at best and rabid jingoism at worst.
Yeah “pointing fingers and making things up”, huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections
Putrid disinfo shill
Is this comment an example of misplaced priorities or rabid jingoism?
Vote now on your phones!
I never said “making things up”, that’s all you baby
"Wikipedia is evil for saying bad things about Ruzzia!!! "
Yeah about the level of rhetoric I expected from you
This is why you never win any of the wars you start. Oh, sorry, “special military operation”.
Operation MEATGRINDER ruahahahahah
…what are you reading? It’s clearly not what I’ve written.
Because you’re pathetically avoiding discussing Russian disinfo, and instead just pretend any implication that any exist is “rampant jingoism” or some other ridiculous bullshit.
Honestly if you were a bit smarter maybe one Finn (or modernly Ukrainian actually) wouldn’t be equivalent to 10 Russians. As it stands, we and they very much are.
You’re grossly underplaying the influence foreign governments have had on each other within the past century. They’re going above and beyond “trying to trick you.”
They’re heavily investing in popular talking heads to support a path of radicalization, buying ads that target voters on Facebook, forming special interest social media groups, manipulating social media with bot farms, heavily bribing politicians, blackmailing the powerful, recruiting millionaires, lobbying policy, running a counterintelligence campaign, running hacking operations, and more that we don’t even know. They’re weaponizing intelligence and trying to convert people’s opinions to their advantage so that their opponents crumble from within. And they’re damn good at it.
Nobody’s “just pointing” at Russia or other countries. We have a recorded history of them doing it, and we can trace it back to them. They’re all doing it.
OK great. Amend your comment to mine. The last point still stands:
You counteract forgiven influence by giving people a reason to trust their local institutions. By delivering positive material change to hundreds of millions. Without that, it is just pointing fingers and complaining.
It’s becoming clear there is only one oligarch ruling party in the US, so they’re looking for something new to blame since they can just pass the ball from red to blue anymore.
it’s simpler than that. the oligarch class here and the oligarch class in russia are friends. the inner party, or oligarchs, in china are friends, too. we all live in one imperial top down system that’s designed to look like it’s opposed to itself
(good point but I think you said “russia” twice by accident in first sentence.)
whoops!
Russia and China are less corrupt than west because they control oligarchy. Yeltsin was our CIA puppet that gave away Russia to their oligarchs with western financing/profit flows. Putin has reformed corruption, which is why our demonic filth opposes him. China also does not need oligarch support to maintain rule, and in fact spreads prosperity more pluralistically than west does.
Our corrupt propaganda against Russia needed treason by oligarchs to beg Putin to destroy Russia so they can get their yachts back. We can only project corruption on entire world, and it is the dumb plebs that believe in the strategy.
yeah like why do people keep saying it’s Russia like chill
