• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    “$8 a month will make a troll farm too expensive to run”

    Did anyone see how many millions Russia spent in fb ads during elections? $8 to reach more people is basically free

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      1 year ago

      $1M would only afford a measly 125,000 verified troll accounts a month!

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    1 year ago

    Surprise Pikachu

    <div class=“tenor-gif-embed” data-postid=“19719769” data-share-method=“host” data-aspect-ratio=“1” data-width=“100%”><a href=“https://tenor.com/view/hold-on-wtf-surprised-pikachu-gif-19719769”>Hold On GIF</a>from <a href=“https://tenor.com/search/hold-gifs”>Hold GIFs</a></div> <script type=“text/javascript” async src=“https://tenor.com/embed.js”></script>

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    1 year ago

    BBC has no business teaching others about false and misleading claims about the NATO-Russia war.

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      Russia isn’t at war with NATO and the proof of that is that Russia still exists as a sovereign nation.

      They are not a US peer, much less a threat to NATO.

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          Russia will never use a nuclear missile because it would be a death sentence for them.

          Russia’s military is not a threat to the US in any way. They showed how corrupt and poorly-managed they are in the Ukraine invasion.

          Everyone believed Russia’s disinformation about their competence, but those lies fell apart the moment their military was put to the test.

          The only significant global worry about Russia is that the state fails, they balkanize, and their poorly-secured WMDs make it into the hands of rogue actors.

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              Things have changed a lot since then. For instance, their own military contractors attacked their forces and invaded their mainland.

              You know, like a competent army does.

              Edit: also mearhsheimer’s premise is deeply flawed and his reasoning only gets worse from there. I am shocked beyond belief that a political realist would assume Russia sees the Ukrainian conflict as an existential threat, or that Ukraine sees the destruction of Russia as a war goal.

              This war began as a bullying landgrab and has turned into a shit show because Russia thought they had another Georgia on their hands.

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              Ukraine’s military was pathetic around 2014, they were training militia with sticks and airsoft guns and the rest of the actual military arsenal was old soviet shite. I wouldn’t consider them well equipped until a few months ago when most of the western military aid arrived.

              How are they losing the war if they have already taken most of Bakhmut back and are pushing decently on most fronts of the war against a military power that dwarfs it in manpower and supposedly in tech.

              Russia is already losing territory they took during this war and in some parts is about to lose territory it gained during the 2014 offensive that they definitely were not a part of wink wink.

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      1 year ago

      As opposed to… Listening to random people on twitter?

      BBC is one of the top news sources in the world.

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        Mainstream news sources have two primary functions: distracting you with entertainment while manufacturing consent.

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          1 year ago

          That’s a really cute outlook, and, like a lot of the people who tell you “MSM is evil!”, well divorced to reality.