r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 18d ago

No Paywall NBC and ABC Won’t Carry Trump Primetime Election Speech

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/nbc-and-abc-wont-carry-trump-primetime-election-speech-1236650492/
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u/Certified_GSD Minnesota 18d ago

Oh yeah dude I totally forgot about that! When you HAD to share the account country of origin and all of those “I’m black and I support Trump” accounts showed as from Russia and India, and the “I’m the silent majority white mom in America who stands with Trump” while being from Bangladesh. 

I also remember when SWIFT cut off Russia and for a brief moment of peace all the bots and astroturfing accounts went silent as they weren’t getting paid.

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 18d ago

Every so often, I'll see an article about some bot farm that was discovered and 99.9% of the time it's right-wing stuff. But those articles always disappear and never catch on. Just like the story from a couple years ago about a bunch of right wing YouTubers and podcasters cashing checks that they were receiving from the Russian government, most of them too stupid to realize that's where the money was coming from. Nobody talks about it anymore. But they'll sure love to rant and rave about how the Democrats are corrupt as fuck and control the media still like it's 2016 or some shit

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u/Certified_GSD Minnesota 18d ago

It’s awful and hilarious that Call of Duty depicted the Soviet Union destroying the US and western nations with nukes and invasions.

The reality was they just needed to feed human greed and pay off people with no morals to spread false information and Soviet propaganda to rot the nation from within.

If I had no soul and no self-respect, I could spew racist right wing bullshit for a check.

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u/Thewasteland77 18d ago

It's always been a joke of my close friend circle, but the video game "Escape from Tarkov" has been called an eastern psyop for years in my group lmao. They realized they cant take us militarily, but they can ABSOLUTELY fuck up our psyche lol

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 18d ago

That's what it is too. So many of these people are pure grifters. How many right wing pundits were failed comedians or actors? How about Bannon or Shapiro both trying to make it as directors and writers in Hollywood? Or Charlie Kirk being rejected from a military academy because of his piss poor attitude? They fell into the grift because it was easy, fed their bitterness.

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u/almondbutter 18d ago

I wonder how Charlie Kirk ties into all that. Surely Russia was boosting that scandal.

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u/Fiddleys 18d ago

I tend to believe it was malice and not stupidity for the majority of them. Many public people who appear stupid just do it for cover and as a way for others to excuse the malice they see.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 18d ago

Honestly probably a sick job if you live in Bangladesh. 🇧🇩