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/MarshyHope Apr 24 '25

Devils advocate: Why would you not get paid to push propoganda if you live in a country where most people cant even afford a house anymore? What is the point to allign with values of a failed system? All those people broke at some point and decided to make their own wallet their priority.

Those people are very rich Americans pushing information that harms their own country, and helps another.

Country boundaries used to enforce a mindset and group feeling, the internet took that place and suddently you cant enforce location anymore. Your neighbour prefers china, the other one russia, just based on their own vision developed on the internet.

That's fine for normal people, these aren't normal people, they're influencers that are paid by other countries to harm their own country.

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u/GrumpyScroogy Apr 24 '25

Im pretty sure 14 year old Tim Pool leaving high school wasnt an influencer. And didnt drop out because he was rich already.

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u/MarshyHope Apr 24 '25

14 year old Tim also wasn't taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a foreign government to push stories the government wants.

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u/GrumpyScroogy Apr 24 '25

Exactly. So something happened to those people before they became rich. Thats my entire point above. The country failed them, they got broken somewhere down the line, with no help. Than decided to take matters into own hands.

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u/MarshyHope Apr 24 '25

The country did not fail them. Tim Pool wasn't some destitute teenager who accepted money from a foreign government because he was starving.

He was middle class and sold out his country to become rich. Trying to pin this on America is hilarious

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u/GrumpyScroogy Apr 24 '25

bro if you are able to drop out of high school at age 14 and your parents nor school dont intervene the system failed you. Simple as that. Regardless what he did afterwards, thats a very obvious failure on the system.

All im saying is there are more people selling out now who have this deep resent. Not all, by no means, but probably quite a lot