I second the personality disorder thing. For me, the past few years, the right wingers have been exactly the people I expected. The worst of the worst. The meanest of the mean. The greediest of the greedy. Not once did a nice person turn out to be right-wing.

The plan doesn’t account for one universal law: Russians always lie and steal.

In this case the people in charge of psyops in Ukraine pocketed the budget and just sent “yep, all good” reports upstream.

On the other hand, things are working really well on social media. Go on any TikTok video about the Ukraine war or about EU internal politics and within 1-2 minutes you have people arguing with VERY specific talking points and have 50+ likes.

And you can see when they escalate the basic talking points to Tier 2 Arguers, I had one guy claiming to be Irish know very very very specific things about some EU investigation that happened in Ukraine around 2012. Stuff that NOBODY cares about unless you're a hardcore Russia fan, a Russian disinfo bot or in a very specific place on the spectrum.

blowback and rallying your enemies.

imo exactly what’s happened with russia… pre-full-scale invasion nobody gave a shit about russia… even crimea tbh people were mostly indifferent

now? i dont know anyone real that doesn’t think the whole country can go to hell, and that russia always lies

the standard reaction to hearing about undersea cables being cut is: fuck russia; we should bomb their fucking ships those absolute cunts - even if we have no idea if it’s russia or not!

win or lose in ukraine, russia has lost so much - at least for the short-term

Interesting. Which accounts were these at the time of reveal?

They hate the libs so much they'd prefer to get bent over by our enemies as long as the libs get owned.

Trump is literally the most envious assholes on the planet. He's friends with the Saudis, and he wants what they have, which is oil. Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserve on the planet.

We will be going to war with Venezuela.

Just look at the Russian anti-trans laws and compare them to Trump's policies.

Hate to bring it to you, but the evil doesn't have to have a single source. Authoritarian regimes all across the world during the entirety of recent history have been banning LGBTQ+. Autocrats are obsessed with non conforming sex and identities

Are you suggesting transphobia in the west is because Russia is ordering western leaders to pass anti-trans laws?

Or did you just mean America, and TERF island gets its transphobia from a different source?

Because those aren't actual communists, they're tankies.

Tabkies don't have any actual principles, let alone any beliefs whatsoever.

Their beliefs are solely anti-West and that is it. It doesn't matter what contradictions or outright lies they must embrace. As long as the narrative is anti-West, they're 100% on board.

I never said fascism wasn't homegrown in the US.

I am saying the majority of fascist figureheads and "discussion controllers" are either foreign hostile actors, or associated with foreign hostile actors in some way.

Ex: Russia, Israel, etc.

That's not totalitarian, it's just journalism

That's why reddit made its API access exorbitantly expensive.

Also it's a cult of personality meaning it requires active maintenance by the leader, meanwhile Trump is actively melting and may not even have enough of a personality to count eventually.

That doesn't mean much. It just means the next snake oil salesman that appeals to their base emotions will win their dumb hearts.

Regular, factual and continued education is the only way out of this mess. Note the present dismantlement of said Department.

A bomb only explodes for a few miliseconds. The problem is the damage it does persists.

Indeed. They have our infrastructure by the balls. As soon as we try and stop them from taking Taiwan, if that even happens, we will stop having water power and gas in short order.

After 8 hours without water hospitals stop working. Think about that for a minute.

I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn't like on the Internet disappeared

Basically the likes of George Will, Liz Cheney, and other NeverTrump republicans.

They've been driven from any influence within the GOP, but any outsider would call them conservative.

It was perfect wording. You are spot on.

There's no such thing as a "principled" conservative. Conservativism is the idea that nothing should change, except the things that the conservative thinks need to change. It is, without exception, based on the self-interest of the conservative determining their own positions. It's narcissism dressed in stoic nationalism wielding ignorance and fueled by anger.

Principled supporters of things like freedom of speech are called "liberals."

MAGAs, on the other hand, are the truest conservatives we've seen since the NAZIs.

Monarchy/fascism/oppression/maintaining of hierarchy has always been what conservatism has been about. Noises to the contrary have always been lies to hoodwink their marks.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk