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Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?

I’m super confused by what chain of reasoning would lead you to say this. First, it doesn’t matter at all that they’re not foreign states

Also, I’m not talking about the US government using propaganda to influence Russian citizens, I’m talking about the US government using propaganda to influence US citizens.

I see, we’re talking past eachother because you fail to follow the topic. As a reminder, the topic was USA/Russia influencing eachothers population. That should help you finally understand why it works better in one direction and not the other, and why internal bad actors aren’t relevant to the conversation.

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Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
No, that wasn’t the topic at all. How does America influencing Russia’s population relate to anything we were talking about at all?

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- zenitsu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That was the topic, you’re the one who started mixing in state actors like Musk and Zuckerberg after implying that Western propaganda directed at Russia should be just as effective as theirs towards us. Go and improve your reading comprehension and then read everything again.
  
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  - Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I never said that. Please cite the line where you think I did.
    
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    zenitsu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    If Russia has the ability to brainwash half the country using a handful of bot farms, then I can only imagine what our own, much more powerful and well funded intelligence agencies are capable of.
    
    The implication being doing to the same to their country, obviously.
    
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