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Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?

To me it almost seems like reddit has started pushing it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

It's everywhere. I'm guessing they have a lot extra free money to spend on propaganda now that they allies with the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Maybe also has something to do with the uptick of banning left leaning people talking about the damage Trump and Musk are doing? There have been a TON of people here saying their 10+ year old accounts have been banned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Yes thats why I left

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mutual_ayed 3 points 1 hour ago

My sentiments exactly. Been an increasing problem over there since 2016 that I noticed but I'm sure there was this bullshittery there before and I just wasn't in the subreddits where it festered.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

I don't buy the whole Russia thing because it takes the burden of guilt off of the admin and makes them look like pawns. No, the admin would be this way regardless of Russia. The Russia connection is a symptom of MAGA, not the cause.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

WTF is Reddit?

Seriously though get off that site, it's not good for you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

They're getting a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to clamp down on leftist content and ease regulations on right wing stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm just seeing a lot of sanitation of reddit. Must be making it advertiser friendly or kissing up to the admin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The russian propagandist has no shame these days. They openly flaunt their nationality and their influence over US media. It's shameful and americans should ostracize these people. They are all soo scared of brown people voting in their election but give no shits when it comes to russians, a foreign adversary, pushing their agenda through propagandizing americans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No longer on Reddit. That’s why I’m here. Kept getting banned because, “who knows”?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

"Why am I banned?"

silence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Rather than an uptick of far-right, more like a downtick of genuine sensible people in contrast to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Sensible people? I seem to vaguely remember those there...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

How do you tell the difference between Russian propaganda and right wing American propaganda?

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

It is such an extreme dysfunctional problem. The right would hate immigrants, sexual/reproductive freedom without Russian interference. If some disinformation is sourced from Russia, GOP fully supporting it is a GOP blamed act. Equivalent to them paying cheaper Russian bot farms for GOP purposes.

The complete acceptance of Russophobia propaganda around here, and the economic damage from supporting a losing war on Russia, was a factor in losing a close election, though GOP vote rigging and voter suppression, and an Israel first DNC that supports Trump, was a bigger factor. The economic damage of a losing war based on propaganda disinformation, meant that Biden could not criticize the war as defense for inflation policies.

War on Russia will never make you happy. For all I know, midterms democrat strategy will be based on resuming war on Russia. The demonization of peace because "peace means Putin wins", and so peace means being a servant of Putin, is both so simplistic but so effective in causing deranged views.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, as far as I can tell, American Democrats have just created there own version of secular Christianity, where there's just ontologically a single source of all evil on Earth and that's Putin. It basically means that domestic fascism is basically given a free parse, and leaves liberals trying to prevent the slide into fascism with ultranationalism, xenophobia, militancy and McCarthiest paranoia, which doesn't work for obvious reasons.

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

Yes if Putin is responsible for all problems, then the only solution to everything is to be angrier at Russia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, that's what I mean. Currently the democrats don't seem very interested in actually taking action at all to address their situation, but if they actually tried to do something, how could it not just be McCarthiest purges of "Russian assets", government censorship of "Russian propaganda" and belligerent militarism. Essentially it seems like the Democrats have rendered themselves ideologically incapable of meaningfully opposing the fascist slide.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I was making a joke using the meme from The Office where corporate asks what the difference between two pictures is. I was using your comment as a setup to insinuate that right wing propaganda is the same as Russian propaganda.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but that makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Makes pretty good sense to me. They're using the meme format to imply that there are no differences between the two, i.e. right wing propaganda is just Russian propaganda.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but they're too different, mutually exclusive countries.

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

Yes, that is what makes it a joke, the subversion of expectations.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ok...

Can you answer my question now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

He already did.

The answer to "how do you tell the difference" is "you don't, because they're the exact same thing."

Right wing American propaganda is Russian propaganda, the American rightwingers are just too dumb to see it.

Also.. "mutually exclusive countries"? Consider how silly it would sound if you said "mutually exclusive people". You're just using "mutually exclusive" because you think it sounds intelligent. It does not when you use it in the wrong context.

[–] Samskara -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Russia also does left wing propaganda. Their goal is chaos and division.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Ok? What doers that have to do with my question?

Their goal is chaos and division.

How did you determine this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

Foundations of Geopolitics. A Russian book by an author with ties to Putin, which describes in detail and in advance everything they've been doing for the last few years, including the invasion of Ukraine and the psyop against America.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Good you just answer the question please

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Good you just answer the question please

Wow. You actually managed to get your Russian accent to come through, even when you're online and could actually check your own spelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Because it's painfully obvious to the point that Russia has literally explicitly admitted to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

I only frequent one closed group on Reddit - the only reason I still have my account. I gather this group to be quite safe. The main page, though, is a mess, USNazis and Russians way to frequent.

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