1/ Brief history of shitlib delusions about Russia tweetstorm:2011: Liberals get excited about Arab Spring. They love the idea of
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5/ the US effectively on the ISIS side here. US support flowed to Syrian rebel forces, which may have included ISIS. ISIS is on the side of
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6/ democracy and multiculturalism, after all.Russia, meanwhile, is becoming more of a problem for the US Middle East agenda because of its
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7/ support for Assad. In 2013, this comes to a head with the alleged Assad chemical weapons attack. Everyone gets very upset about chemical
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8/ weapons and mad at the Russians for supporting Assad. Many calls for regime change in Syria were made. ISIS is also gaining power, and
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9/ Russia is intervening directly against them. We can’t have Russia bombing ISIS, can we?As a result, around 2013 Russia started to gain
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10/ much more prominence as “our” enemy. This is about when I started to see the “Wikileaks is a Russian operation” and “ZeroHedge is
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11/ Russian propaganda” memes, although there are archives of this theory from as early as 2011: http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=5728There is, of course,
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12/ negligible evidence for either of these theories, but that didn’t stop them from spreading. Many hackers have come from Russia over the
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13/ years, and Russia was surely happy about many of Wikileaks’ releases, but that does not mean that they’re receiving money or orders from
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14/ Russia.In 2014, Russia held the Olympics, and around that time there was a lot of publicity about how Russia does not allow gay
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15/ marriage. Surely only an evil country could prohibit it. Needless to say, I saw little said about Saudi Arabia’s position on gay
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16/ marriage.Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and sanctions were introduced against Russia. Most likely the annexation was opposed because
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17/ this would mean that Crimean gays would not be able to get married any time soon.The combination of Russian interference in opposition
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18/ to ISIS plus the annexation of Crimea was just too much for liberals and cuckservatives still opposed to Soviet influence, and various
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19/ aggressive statements toward Russia began to come from Hillary and members of Congress.Trump enters the presidential race in 2015, and
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20/ he wonders why we’re opposing Russian actions against ISIS. Why are we taking agressive stands that could lead to war with Russia?
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21/ What’s in it for Americans?Obviously could only mean that Trump was a Russian agent. And who would a Russian agent work with but Russian
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22/ hackers and the Russian Wikileaks agency?Wikileaks released the DNC emails in July 2016, and they released the Podesta emails shortly
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23/ before the election. Since Americans were known to not have any access to any of the leaked information, it could only have come from
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24/ Russian government hackers.Liberals have assumed that any contacts between the Trump team and Russian diplomats prior to the election
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25/ were related to illegal coordination to influence or “hack” the election. Never mind that communication between presidential campaigns
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26/ and foreign diplomats is not uncommon: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/18/obama.trip/index.htmlFollowing … the election, Trump associate Flynn might have said to the Russians that
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27/ the sanctions could possibly be reexamined at some point, thus obviously severely interfering with US diplomatic relations. Of course
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28/ this statement has been worthy of an extensive FBI investigation.Most recently we have the “leak” of classified information from Trump
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29/ to Russia, in which Trump told the Russians to be on the lookout for ISIS bombs smuggled onto planes in laptops. Apparently this is very
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30/ bad because it’s important for ISIS to successfully bomb Russian civilian planes if they feel like it. Let’s sum up this logic:Russia is
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31/ bad because they oppose US efforts to install Islamic fundamentalist governments in the Middle East, because they oppose gay marriage,
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32/ and because taking Crimea is basically the same as Hitler’s invasion of Poland.Russia is full of hackers. Assange is a Russian agent
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33/ since he publishes information leaked from the US. Trump is a Russian agent since he opposes war with Russia.Russians hacked the DNC and
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34/ Podesta at Trump’s request and gave the information to Wikileaks. Flynn interfered with US diplomacy. Trump is giving US secrets to
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