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[–] SneakyBird@lemmy.world 126 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Russians must be laughing their asses off at how easy it is to abuse democracy.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

No, they know exactly how inbred conservatives are, they have hordes at home to abuse freely so long as they let them keep their racism.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 points 23 hours ago

It's fairly easy to abuse the paradox of tolerance, especially when so many media are in the hands of a handful of people

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago

russia sows dissent in order to keep the west to back off from russia imperialistic aims: Ukraine,and every other former soviet state.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

they would be if they weren't so terrified of giving away their positions to the drones on the Ukrainian front.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

They abused an already decrepit democracy/democracies tho. A failing infrastructure susceptible to basic ads.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 39 points 1 day ago

Well they should get invited after all they did to promote it.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Obviously, because Brexit was just fueled by lies and propaganda spread on Meta platforms and twitter to fuel enough anti-european sentiment to leave the Union. They appealed to their sense of "greatness" with disinformation in order to separate one of the only nuclear powers there and the most militarily prepared. UKIP gets their money from the same place all the far-right groups all over the world do. The Heritage Foundation. That's what all the talk about invading Canada and Greenland is about, split NATO forces so there's less support for Ukraine.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia can do so much with so little :D

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

they figured it out in the 80s fight with geopolitics, and TRUMP happened to fall into thier laps at the same time.