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Russian "information war" campaign on the US, trying to convince voters that disabled people have too many privilidges (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The full document entitled “Guerilla media campaign on the United States” seized by the FBI from Russian government sources, is available here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/exhibits_9a_and_9b.pdf

If you’ve been noticing more and more ableist content online like I have, this could explain it.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only I could figure out who "US Political Party A" and "US Political Party B" are, then we could really get to the bottom of this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t know if you’re joking. But party A is GOP and party B is Dems.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Surely that was sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was sarcasm, but don't call them Shirley.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've decided to transition, call me Shirley.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Will do, Shirley 🫡

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And don't call me Shirley.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fascism and bigotry in general has always been a tool used by the ruling classes for internal and external warfare. They keep it around for a reason. This is not so suprising

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depressing. Not shocking though

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

We've known certain personalities have been russian shills for a while. What's new is that we now know they're PAID russian shills.

Though, if Tim pool is to be believed, they didn't influence his content at all. That means he would suck putin's cock for free which is worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

True. I guess it's a bit heartening to have concrete and widely known proof that the huge uptick in shitty attitudes toward certain groups has not been completely organic? Some people might think a bit more critically, maybe, with luck? These people are doing a bit for likes and money, they should be way more embarrassed than they are.