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Related: About this forumTYT: Russia's Online Troll Army Is Huge, Hilarious (seems appropriate today to post this again)
Plans attached to emails leaked by a mysterious Russian hacker collective show IT managers reporting on a new ideological front against the West in the comments sections of Fox News, Huffington Post, The Blaze, Politico, and WorldNetDaily.
The bizarre hive of social media activity appears to be part of a two-pronged Kremlin campaign to claim control over the internet, launching a million-dollar army of trolls to mold American public opinion as it cracks down on internet freedom at home."*
*Read More http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)So maybe our Putin-loving trolls are simply volunteers.
DeSwiss
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)he seems to want to follow in Hitler's footsteps, and I'd really rather not have an excuse handed to the war profiteers to push the US into yet another war.
DeSwiss
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)That's what I mean by following in his footsteps. Instituting land grabs from nearby countries and declaring them part of Russia. First Crimea, next eastern Ukraine, then who knows who gets to be next?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)We do wars for the fun and profits!
BTW: the MIC needs no excuses for you or me. They play the war songs and we dance.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Right.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)DeSwiss
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)imthevicar
(811 posts)That includes ours! Besides this is all just so much fear mongering.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)it's not fear mongering, it's fact
It's OK when Our Government does it! And Before I forget Here is something to Chew on.
http://rense.com/general37/char.htm
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)Besides being rank with anti-Semitism (something some have no issue with), it is also deeply racist. There is a real irony for them posting such an "article." And, just for shits and giggles, search "Dr. Lawrence Britt".
uhnope
(6,419 posts)oh, and that author doesn't quite exist, isn't a doctor, and the article is debunked here
http://civilliberty.about.com/b/2007/09/10/one-nation-underrated.htm
Response to uhnope (Reply #13)
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They (the emperors) frequently abused their power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life: their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few, but it did not reach the greater number; .. But it would seem that if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild, it would degrade men without tormenting them.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.
Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
~Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)
uhnope
(6,419 posts)you Putinistas should be ashamed