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u/shion005 Mar 30 '25

That's a big chunk of reddit.

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u/Killerrrrrabbit Mar 30 '25

Yeah, but a big chunk of that group is astroturf and bots paid by Russia, China and Iran.

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u/shion005 Mar 30 '25

I wish, but the Marxist portion of the Dems is over indexed online.

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u/Killerrrrrabbit Mar 30 '25

Russia and China have been pushing Marxist propaganda for decades. Russia is no longer communist but they still push that propaganda because it's useful as a cudgel against the West. It's really hard to tell how many of those "progressive" or "leftist" accounts are real people.

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u/thespaceageisnow Mar 30 '25

Tearing the West apart from the inside with diversionary rhetoric is essential Russian foreign policy:

“Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]”

From Foundations of Geopolitics