chamomile

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Pronounced "kƦməmil"


Large sheep the size of a small sheep! Likes tea, DIY, and nerd stuff. Sysadmin, release engineer and programmer by trade.


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amydentata
@amydentata

I see a lot of people on the left mock claims like this but shit is legit and you're probably caught up in some of it and have been for awhile

[edit 2] Guess I'll address this in the main post since I've seen people posting about it: Bringing up the subject of foreign propaganda attacking the US is not a statement that US propaganda doesn't exist and isn't a serious problem. You're preaching to the choir about the abuses of the US government. Doesn't mean foreign propaganda is a non-issue or imaginary. And talking about foreign propaganda doesn't mean I'm saying the US doesn't have its own purely self-created problems. Please don't hit this conversation with a "So you hate waffles?" That's a whole new sentence. Arguing against things I never said makes you look silly. Don't do that. Thanks.

[edit 1] The Reddit post's status seems to be flip-flopping, manual copy below the fold, and archived here.


spookybiscuits
@spookybiscuits

one of those last few lines was the key to busting myself out of the cycle of propaganda a long time ago

i realized the faceless, nameless fake accounts want me to be miserable, and paranoid, and angry

unfortunately i am, at heart, a contrarian


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in reply to @amydentata's post:

I always think of having gotten that "hey you interacted with some Russian propaganda" notice on Tumblr a few years back and it was on some of the weirdest posts, like, oh

Yeah IDK. This sort of thing gets dunked on a lot but I do think it is possible to hold in one's mind "US liberals wave 'Russian disinformation' around as a Boogeyman to discredit the left" AND "the Russian state has a vested interest in fomenting conflict online" at the same time.

Good read, thank you for sharing

I’m somewhat curious how many ā€œwell meaning but hysterical liberals who call everything Russian botsā€ are in fact Russian propagandists. It’s gotta be nonzero right? Like that’s such an obvious way to get people to not take this seriously.

in reply to @spookybiscuits's post:

I was very surprised in like... 2015 or so, when I noticed that random bars and shit would have on these deranged viral video services that were, lo and behold with just a bit of googling, obviously owned and operated by RT and had a bizarre mix of extremely ra ra patriotism and the most nihilistic shit you'd ever seen