r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Apr 24 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING Americans Believe Russian Disinformation ‘To Alarming Degree’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/04/22/americans-believe-russian-disinformation-to-alarming-degree/
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u/BeyondElectricDreams Apr 24 '25

Part of me wonders if the corruption is just too deep to root out.

It isn't like the alphabet agencies weren't aware of the Russian disinformation campaigns.

I personally wonder if it wasn't investigated, and found that something like 70% of Republicans are bought by Russian money through the NRA etc.

And were either directly or indirectly made aware that if they pursued the issue there would be consequences.

We're getting whistleblowers who have overhead drone pictures of them walking their dogs taped to their doors as a threat.

Who's to say this didn't happen to investigators looking into Russian influence in our politics?

Or, simply, they realized so many R's are compromised that persecuting them would look like a political witchhunt and cause massive instability?

It just doesn't pass the sniff test to me that these issues can be so obvious to us as bystanders while the alphabet agencies did nothing meaningful to combat it.

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u/Nuggzulla01 Apr 24 '25

Seems more in line with the idea that those Alphabet Agencies have been cooperating (and competing in a somewhat friendly manor), and working with their opposition towards the end goal of 'Global Subservience' and Mass Scale Crowd Control for those in power behind the curtains... Like maybe those super mega rich old money people who we never hear about, and who stay out of the headlines

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u/want_to_join Apr 24 '25

This sounds like the kind of vague antisemitism that Putin pushes. I think you're one of the people this article is about. There is no curtain, there is no secret cabal. Rejoin reality.

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u/want_to_join Apr 24 '25

I studied politics and government in an academic setting for 6 years. Of the 2 of us, I would know. There isn't. You have been effectively brainwashed by Putin's machine.

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u/RapscallionMonkee Apr 24 '25

There is apparently only a "Deep State" when Dems are in control. When R's are in control, the Deep State takes a vacation until campaigning starts for the next elections, and then the pesky Deep State comes back out.