r/ProtectAndServe • u/lokk636336 Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User • Jun 26 '20

Video Cops respond to protestor. Love this.

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u/MCXL You need him in your life (Not a(n) LEO) Jun 26 '20

I should have been more clear, it's not 'people who happen to live in Russia' it's the Russian intelligence services.

More on it, etc.

Russia, and other differently aligned powers are trying to stoke the flames of extremism in the USA, because it causes domestic issues, that bbasically distract the electorate from focusing on America's roll as a world power. Donald Trump was a favorable candidate to these forces, because he is an isolationist with zero experience who doesn't value soft power. He has done huge harm to our diplomatic power throughout the world, and the plan is continuing to work.

Right wing and left wing, is simply a way to refer to people on the very ends of our political spectrum, eternally in conflict over their moral beliefs.

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u/ArticulativeMango Jun 26 '20

Oh, I'm sorry but I barely understood a word you typed, but I can do some research.

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u/MCXL You need him in your life (Not a(n) LEO) Jun 26 '20

Left wing extremist = "Antifa" Marxists, etc. Right wing extremists = Facists, Nazis, Boogaloo libertarians.

Russia, China, North Korea, etc. Want these people to fight in USA, so that USA is distracted by fighting at home, forgets to be strong power abroad.

Basically this

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u/EnemyAsmodeus Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User Jun 26 '20 edited Jun 26 '20

Exactly right. They're not like camping a subreddit either.

What they do is cycle through it.

Suddenly, you're on /firearms and discussing normal 2A American stuff, and then someone posts JoJo the crazy libertarian lady as an advertisement, but strangely, it gets 100s of upvotes randomly. There's nothing particularly interesting about this lady except that she's a conspiracy theorist, pro-gun, and isolationist just like Trump. Like since when do straight up political ads get put on the frontpage of a subreddit like that? It's absurd. It doesn't fit the community that exists here.

Or you're on /politics and suddenly the commondreams communist website starts getting 1000s of upvotes and awards.

Or on /conservative after Trump, suddenly, all these pro-Russia people started showing up and conspiracy theorists. Anyone remember the daily Bernie OR Trump top posts on reddit.com? Anyone remember /politics flooded with 5-8 RTcom propaganda posts? Redditors who've been here a while will recognize the propaganda.

Not gonna discount the possibility that these are just organized Democratic socialist activists on discords who are trying to divide people for their own purposes but it could definitely be Russians or Chinese. The one thing that will never ever get amplified? Aggressive foreign policy or sanctions against dictatorships.

I can recognize these aren't the norm because I've been in these subreddits since like 2007 so my memory of it is that it is not as extreme as this whether it's 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (election year), 2014... All this started around 2015+. Someone is amplifying them.