I refuse to engage with anyone from your instance

Lol, I just noticed you’re an ML. No wonder you’re desperate to deny anything bad ever came out of Russia. Scuttle back to your tankie echo chamber.

1 - where did I say I’m immune?

2 - are you ignoring the fact that Russia openly admits to doing this?

Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere, and we will interfere … Carefully, precisely, surgically, and in our own way, as we know how. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.

Yevgeny Prigozhin founder of the largest Russian troll farm

This is all kinda my point. It’s not like Putin is just broadcasting stuff at the West. Wherever there’s discussions happening online, Russia helps amplify divisive messages and the algorithms do the rest.

Sure the talking points come from bad actors in the West but Russia are and have been quietly manipulating all the conversation around all of it. And yes they do it to conversations on the left and the right.

What’s so insidious about russia’s psiop over the last few decades is that all they’ve done is gently nudge the dial. They’ve sown distrust of traditional media and of democratic institutions, they’ve polarised discourse to that communities that mostly rubbed alongside one another reasonably well now are so idealogically opposed to each other that the middle ground has evaporated.

And if you think “haha stupid MAGAs” falling for propaganda, I got news for you buddy, you’ve fallen for it too.

If you insist: