• Adkml [he/him]
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    29 days ago

    My favorite link for whenever the Russian interfearance bullshit comes up.

    https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

    We literally bragged on the cover of time magazine that we intentionally worked to get yeltsin elected (obviously, a country trying to get a leader elected that's more beneficial to them is jot exactly a wild idea)

    And our involvement wasn't just making racist Facebook posts about minorities in Russia to get racists to vote for him.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        29 days ago

        Dems complaining about Russia posting racist Facebook memes and acting like it's justification to bomb Moscow is shockingly hypocritical, even for liberals.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      hexagon
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      29 days ago

      It's also fun to read about the anticommunist media campaign in favor of Yeltsin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election#Pro-Yeltsin_media_bias

      Today, this would be considered propaganda by the authoritarian Putler, but in 1996 this was wholesome 100 democracy.

    • Rania 🇩🇿@lemmygrad.ml
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      28 days ago

      and nothing like supporting incel terrorists in Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso