• 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    The cognitive dissonance over at r/conservative is showing cracks over this one. Same with the “dictator” comments about Zelensky. You can make MAGATs believe a lot of things, but telling them that, actually, Putin is the good guy, and Nazis are pretty cool, is a hard sell.

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      21 hours ago

      I don’t know… I had a guy doing some landscape work for me and despite not engaging him he kept dropping comments about how great Trump was and how excited he was that he had just been reelected. Eventually he started asking directed questions and while I kept my answers honest and short, (“I think he is a terrible person by all metrics, including the 4 years he previously spent fucking things up, and anyone who voted for him is a fool at best and a psycho at worst”) he kept driving home how great Trump was and how this will really save our country.

      He eventually asked me where I get my news and I told him, and he said “see I don’t trust any of those guys anymore, I like to get my news from various sources, I’m actually listening to a lot of Russian news these days.”

      I asked him if he knew Russian and he said no, and asked him who the target audience might be for those news outlet (he had asked about who my news sources were catering too), but he didn’t seem to catch on.

      Also fun fact we are in Canada facepalm.

      He didn’t like talking much about Canadian politics, I think because I had answers to most of his really dumb “questions”, whereas I wasn’t listening to 10 hours of Russian propaganda at the time so didn’t know all the angles he was using about how smart Trump’s picks were and how Harris was the literal devil.

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      1 day ago

      i assume its the subreddit, yea its mostly russian bots engaging the sub, keeping it active.