Is anyone else noticing an uptick in far-right content and Russian propaganda on reddit lately?

To me it almost seems like reddit has started pushing it.

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    How do you tell the difference between Russian propaganda and right wing American propaganda?

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          8 hours ago

          I was making a joke using the meme from The Office where corporate asks what the difference between two pictures is. I was using your comment as a setup to insinuate that right wing propaganda is the same as Russian propaganda.

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              8 hours ago

              Makes pretty good sense to me. They’re using the meme format to imply that there are no differences between the two, i.e. right wing propaganda is just Russian propaganda.

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      5 hours ago

      It is such an extreme dysfunctional problem. The right would hate immigrants, sexual/reproductive freedom without Russian interference. If some disinformation is sourced from Russia, GOP fully supporting it is a GOP blamed act. Equivalent to them paying cheaper Russian bot farms for GOP purposes.

      The complete acceptance of Russophobia propaganda around here, and the economic damage from supporting a losing war on Russia, was a factor in losing a close election, though GOP vote rigging and voter suppression, and an Israel first DNC that supports Trump, was a bigger factor. The economic damage of a losing war based on propaganda disinformation, meant that Biden could not criticize the war as defense for inflation policies.

      War on Russia will never make you happy. For all I know, midterms democrat strategy will be based on resuming war on Russia. The demonization of peace because “peace means Putin wins”, and so peace means being a servant of Putin, is both so simplistic but so effective in causing deranged views.

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        42 minutes ago

        War on Russia will never make you happy.

        Seeing the Russians run headlong into the Ukrainian meat grinder makes me very happy lol

        Seeing a UA drone drop a grenade on a Russian soldier that was busy giving another Russian soldier a blowjob instead of keeping watch…that shit made my week

        Russia losing naval battles against a country with no navy

        That giant tank convoy that just kinda…got stuck. And then blew up.

        Oh oh oh and when Pringles almost did a coup, that shit made my MONTH

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          36 minutes ago

          When your media feed is only Ukrainian war porn, you will miss all of the territorial loss taking place, and all of the much higher Ukrainian attritition. Hate and fantasies of diminishing Russia, means “to the last Ukrainian” defeat, just so you clearly know your moral responsibilities and actual level of commitment for Ukrainian prosperity.

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            31 minutes ago

            I’m committed to harming Russia, and the Ukraine war is fucking GREAT for that

            Russia could end it all by just leaving Ukraine and going the fuck home, but until they do, I’ll enjoy them battering themselves to pieces

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              8 minutes ago

              Failure in diminishing Russia, should be a moment to realize stopping your sacrifices (even if it is just money and inflation) as the best path. Russian military production growth exceeds the losses they are suffering. That massive increase in military power will be used to convince imbecile hateful losers such as yourself, to sacrifice all social and useful economic prosperity to compete with Russia’s military production. You are diminishing yourself with your casual hatred, vs united Russian determination to repel demonic aggression supported by your casual hatred.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, as far as I can tell, American Democrats have just created there own version of secular Christianity, where there’s just ontologically a single source of all evil on Earth and that’s Putin. It basically means that domestic fascism is basically given a free parse, and leaves liberals trying to prevent the slide into fascism with ultranationalism, xenophobia, militancy and McCarthiest paranoia, which doesn’t work for obvious reasons.

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          5 hours ago

          Yes if Putin is responsible for all problems, then the only solution to everything is to be angrier at Russia.

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            5 hours ago

            Yeah, that’s what I mean. Currently the democrats don’t seem very interested in actually taking action at all to address their situation, but if they actually tried to do something, how could it not just be McCarthiest purges of “Russian assets”, government censorship of “Russian propaganda” and belligerent militarism. Essentially it seems like the Democrats have rendered themselves ideologically incapable of meaningfully opposing the fascist slide.