• Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Being a political strategist in the west has got to be the easiest gig in the world. “Have you considered painting your opponent as a russian asset sir? That way we can dismiss all their arguments as russian propaganda. No, it doesn’t matter that you want to actively murder your constituents, they won’t care”.

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      10 months ago

      I still can’t tell if my countrymen were always this indoctrinated and I just notice it more as an adult, or if I actually did watch things reach that point in real time. I swear it wasn’t this bad a decade ago, but I was barely an adult then.