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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldOhio
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, I kinda suck at rhetoric. What’s a better way to present to people that the media pointing at foreigners exercising .001% of the malign influence they do serves to distract from the 99.99% of influence they exert? CNN wasn’t presenting wall to wall coverage of Trump in 2016 because of Russia, nor are they essentially giving republicans free advertising by accepting their framing on crime and foreign policy in Israel right now because of Russia.




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    Of course he is, but telling people to focus on one tiny segment of the capitalist class instead of understanding the actual system is fascism 101.

    Instead of showing people how the system works and that the whole thing is against their interest, you just tell them it’s one particular group doing it wrong.

    Also the issue isn’t “anyone over X dollars”, capitalist refers to the relationship with the means of production. Putin is part of the capitalist class because Russia is a capitalist state and Putin is literally the representative of the national bourgeoisie of Russia.


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    In September 2017, Facebook told congressional investigators it had discovered that hundreds of fake accounts linked to a Russian troll farm had bought $100,000 in advertisements targeting the 2016 U.S.

    That year, CNN, Fox, and others spent billions influencing Americans.