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barrbid8
4y ago
No they absolutely did recruit in the developing world and in the type of “slum” you refer to. They took huge amounts of money in Africa. Your comment shows you haven’t looked into one coin deeply. There were huge one coin conferences in Af
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barrbid8
4y ago
They targeted marginalised groups and heavily targeted uneducated people in the developing world Victim blaming is no good
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barrbid8
4y ago
Because they claimed one coin was the new Bitcoin and that she and her associates took billions for “crypto”
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barrbid8
4y ago
The implication in the parent comment is that “anti Russian” propaganda is warping the truth and the people have been brainwashed, the word propaganda isn’t being used to imply the issue is the opposite of “true”.
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barrbid8
4y ago
So if I write an article about say the North Korean government stealing money, or murdering, I’m using an emotional trigger word and an “out group”? Have you ever watched Russian domestic tv, which is incidentally 100% controlled by the gov
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barrbid8
4y ago
Reporting negatively on the Iraq war or blackwater or Facebook isn’t “anti American propaganda”. Just because you are anti establishment doesn’t mean you should instinctively support the Russian establishment which is incidentally many time
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barrbid8
4y ago
Contribution in taxes are not a measure of human worth, neither should people who own property get more votes than those who don’t (people who didn’t own property used to not be able to vote in the uk)
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barrbid8
4y ago
You’ll find people denying that nationalism or Brexit or anti EU politics has anything to do with xenophobia, usually coupled with “your attitude is exactly why we voted leave” as if by noticing the xenophobia, Brexit is your fault. Anyway,
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barrbid8
4y ago
You didn’t really read my comment and reverted to the same behaviour.
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barrbid8
4y ago
Same in Poland, uk, turkey, USA…
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barrbid8
4y ago
Most individuals in such places don’t have the power to change the entire society as a whole. You would leave too
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barrbid8
4y ago
Social media, gamed by political clickbait merchants
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barrbid8
4y ago
The alt right poisoning of discourse by repeating these strange tropes like “another Sweden” or “London is full of murder” or “France is basically Islamic”, is really curious. Because after a while these strange untrue and often deeply weir
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barrbid8
4y ago
It says that there are 3m foreigners living in Japan tho, not insignificant?
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barrbid8
4y ago
Kit klarenberg the author of this sneaky article that draws readers in with somewhat reasonable start then descends into nonsense about Russian government operations like trump and skripal, works or worked for the Russian government’s self
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barrbid8
4y ago
Kit klarenberg is a Russian government “journalist”. So that explains the pro trump spin and snide fury at guardian journos or bbc journos.