it's bizarre, too, to see ppl jump from "Russia's strategy is to extend a hand to friendly far-right groups" to "Russia controls them all"
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Replying to @hannahgais
It's so wrong-headed both for how it oversells Putin and for the way it excuses the racist right here.
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Replying to @emptywheel
totally. the connections are extremely interesting—and scary!—but more care needs to be taken in how they're framed.
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Replying to @hannahgais
And FAR more care needs to be taken in how The Gizmo's snazzy results get reported. Unbelievably sloppy reporting, followed by sloppy RTing.
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Which is triply ironic, given that a bunch of people presenting as Sane™ People on Twitter are behaving just as dumb as Twits in The Gizmo.
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Replying to @hannahgais
No. I mean people who actually know a thing or two about foreign policy. EVEN THEY are misrepresenting what The Gizmo means.
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Replying to @emptywheel
ohhh ok. haha, sorry, she just popped into my head because i was looking at the tracker and
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Replying to @hannahgais
OMIGOSH doesn't that mean Putin is her secret puppet master?
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Replying to @emptywheel
yes—she dwells in Soviet Yugoslavia under his thumb
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That's where the worst secretly-Russian troll farms are, as I understand from some really dodgy reporting.
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Replying to @emptywheel
they've been inviting me to connect with them on linkedin but idk; they seem a bit off.
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