Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% of Democrats and 29.5% of people who didn’t identify with one particular party.

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    Well, an alarming number of Americans believe that Trump should be president. And that America is the best country in the world, and that compassion is communism.

    This tells more about how gullible Americans are, and not much about the skills of unchecked Russian propaganda.

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    An alarming amount of Americans still believe civil war disinformation and propaganda. They ain’t got the critical thinking skills to deal with 250 year old shit, they sure as hell can’t think past new shit

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    So much of what is being flagged as “Russian disinformation” is being parroted (if not straight up propagated) by western news media, western social media, and western talking heads.

    At what point does a Mercer-funded, MAGA-coded, Texas based, English language broadcast constitute American Media? Is this a “just one drop” rule, where any positive (or insufficiently negative) news item or talking point or image marks the entire operation as “Russian”? Are guys like Tim Pool and Alex Jones still Americans? Or are they Russian? Is Tucker Carlson, the son of a CIA director and a midwestern cattle-country heiress, a Presidential speechwriter and US cable news pundit and avowed Cold Warrior, a Russian? Is CNN Russian? Is Exxon Russian?

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    uneducated country that wants to be even more uneducated. runs its platform based on robbing the country blind whilst using the dumbest of the population as a shield by rage baiting them into protecting them against the opposition.

    the world is going to be unrecognizable in 20 years. I’m convinced its going to end up with multiple state collapses and nuclear wars.

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      The amount of people who are actually responsible for all this hate are an extreme minority.

      We need a new constitution that forbids using the best of psychology to manipulate people. No more propaganda and public relations. No more advertising. We already have seen the results of unregulated psychological warfare on the public by corporations, governments, and billionaires.

      A new bill of rights that guarantees housing, education, healthcare, and income. One that spells out what privacy really means and how important it is. A government that is not ran by a two party first past the goal post most popular vote cesspool.

      The system is broken because we allow it be. Our policies and structure produce perverse results. The government has to be designed from the ground up to resist corruption. Anything less is just inviting disaster.

      We have all been lead into a state of learned helplessness. The solutions to solve our problems are already there and there are many of them. There is no one right answer either, there are a lot of great ways to solve our many issues.

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    Many of the supposed “leaders” are spouting Russian disinfo - Hegseth the other day was crying about the media talking about the “Russian hoax”, meaning, reporting on donvict’s sus ties to Putin and Russia in his first term.