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A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans.

https://archive.ph/29a4O

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Captain Obvious and his sidekick Keen Boy once again out there fighting their archenemy Oblivitar

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Is water wet?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

I came here to:

  1. State the obvious response for the article's question: Yes.
  2. Up-vote just about every commenter for this post.
[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They're also coopting far left groups to further their goals as well. Lets not kid ourselves.

Where do you think all the 'don't vote because X' reasons suddenly came up a few months before the election in leftist circles?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (19 children)

I mean some people legitimately were not comfortable with supporting any candidate that wouldn’t address the ongoing genocide in Palestine. I voted for Harris, a lot ofpeople did because they understood what was at stake and that obviously Trump would be worse. But there were a lot of people who just couldn’t do it. Yeah I get at a lot of them, but I also would be lying if I said I didn’t understand why they did it.

All this is to say I would not attribute most of those people to “Russia.” We have to talk to them too about how we want to move forward instead of writing them off as brainwashed/incapable of coming to the conclusion on their own.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

What, did The Base founder fleeing to Moscow or the Russian honeypots oddly popping up in right wing protests give it away?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

We learned a decade ago that every adversarial government in the world targets the right specifically because they're gullible and credulous. We know that because they told us they do.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Captain Obvious and his arch rival, Captain Oblivious

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One of the defining characteristics of this era is the legacy media from time to time timidly noting the possibility of something that's been recognized as at least nearly certain down here in the trenches for months or even years.

Of course Russia is co-opting far right groups to attack western democracies. Any honest person who's been paying attention should've figured that out by now - it's not like they've been subtle about it or anything. And it's been commonly recognized for months now (and less commonly asserted for years).

But at this late date, along comes the Guardian, hesitantly saying, "Um... well... you know... it might just barely be sort of possible that maybe...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

/shockedface

[–] [email protected] 204 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Yes. They have been for years now. Our far-right are a bunch of fucking idiot assholes, and easily manipulated.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They're also for sale. Don't forget, they will promote whatever bullshit they are paid to say. No matter how stupid or dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Leave "Our" out of sentence to make it more accurate.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

More globally accurate

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Who needs Russia for that? Is it because of the 4chan outage?

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