• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    China and Russia worked very hard to get these rich stupid people in power.

    It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.

    Surprisingly, the “liberal tears compilations” and “something about an email server people didn’t understand wasn’t actually illegal” actually worked and drowned out the warnings from our security agencies.

    I don’t think China will be any better of a world leader tbh.

    I see humanity’s future as a boot stepping on a human face forever, unless humanity globally rejects kings, oligarchs, and dictators.

    • Netux@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Don’t forget the genius DNC folk, including HRC thought a pied piper strategy of boosting the circus peanut was a good idea.

      If the Russians and Chinese did anything it was just capitalizing on an unforced error by the hubris of the centrist. One again, bernie would have won, but that was more distasteful to the ruling class than fascism.

      • caffinatedone@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Oddly, the DNC’s position on the republican candidate in the circus that was the 2016 primary wasn’t likely all that influential or determinative.

        trump figured out that running a political campaign as entertainment and leveraging the power of, well, just lying about everything was possible in the modern media environment. republicans had been working for decades on tilling the ground for an authoritarian that they could manage, but got themselves owned instead. Oops.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.

      Compare russia to the British and consider who is the bigger villain.

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      8 hours ago

      You rely on professional fabrications of misinformation to tell you the truth about who is producing misinformation? Don’t fall for crude propaganda. When empires end they do some self-destructive things. It’s normal.