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Europe under extreme duress
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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They should slap some patches on it and convert it into a Titanic tourism excursion business for their oligarchs. ?
kaldor2c7
IWC CW Mustang
Clearly an insider threat scenario well played out
ABMD
Bullets don't fly without Supply
I've often wondered when these guys will be sued by the next of kin of an idiot who slapped some Flex Tape on a hole in their boat, and then took it out to sea...never to return ?
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hlg6016
A/C Wings Here
Too soon to ask if they had a roll on that Titanic sub?
Pre-2016 election (and I think post-2014 invasion), a news organization (I believe it was NPR) interviewed an older Russian man who stated the Russian government had figured out how to deal with and manipulate the Americans. The Russian man was a retired GRU officer (or similar). Naturally, he was short on details, and all he said was the RU government had figured out how to inject strife into the American consciousness (my words). I can't remember if he specifically mentioned social media, but I certainly took it that way if he didn't.
I've always kept that interview, albeit short, in mind as we've progressed though time watching Russian shenanigans.
Candy from a baby.
No doubt. They've been doing this shit for decades, but it's cheaper and easier these days with the nature of how people consume news/media.
They've amped up BLM on the left, and Proud Boys type orgs on the right.
IIRC, the fringe guy who was calling for northern California to secede from the state of CA was an American living in Russia.
There are tons of other examples of how they play dirty pool in the info space, but hopefully we're able to counter proportionately.
Seeing how the far right is tacitly (at minimum) supporting Russia and Putin these days is scary, and IMO lends credence to the "horseshoe theory" of politics.
Yeah, it's weird. There's a small? minority on the far right that somehow believe Putin is a defender of white Christian values. I don't truly understand it, but I think there are certain political/media/religious leaders who are to blame.
The horseshoe theory is real though. Witness RFK Jr's embrace on the far right.
I think some of that is a sign of Russian and/or other outside influence on social media and forums frequented by right wingers. As likely intended, it's been picked up by a lot of folks who apparently have a blind spot in their critical thinking skills, or have no idea what indoctrination looks like. The same types that follow certain public personalities, No Matter What.
It's gotten bad. I used to bee-bop around on a couple of gun forums that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole now. Overt racism, pro-January 6th talk, and Russian apologists abound. It's disgusting. No idea what's going on with "Truth Social" and whatever the other FB/Twitter spinoffs are called- I simply refuse to go there.