Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth, as reported by The Daily Beast.
For example, one account literally named “America First”—with 67,000 followers—seems to be based not in the U.S., but in Bangladesh.
Another popular conservative account, MAGA Nation, with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio that reads, “Standing strong with President Trump 🇺🇸 | America First | Patriot Voice for We The People,” is apparently based in Eastern Europe.
SapphireSphinx@feddit.org 2 days ago
First of all: I’m not American but let me recapitulate the facts as I understand them.
Shouldn’t there be some kind legal action to stop and punish him?
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It’s always been obvious that Putin was behind the Tea Party which evolved into MAGA, and even more obviously, Trump. Problem is the whole system is designed to only allow wealthy land owners to hold power, thus the two party system enforced by the electoral college, and the districting systems that are easily manipulated to give power to land area, above population. The whole system at the federal level is broken on purpose. All we can do is try to get more people to vote so population has more power over land area, but the conservative controlled states cut funding for voting and people have to work do can’t wait in line for many, many hours in large cities on election days. Only progressive states have mail-in voting and early voting and even there we’re stick voting for “lesser evil” candidates due to the two party system both controlled by the wealthy. There’s the far right fascist Republican party and the moderate right Corporate friendly Democratic party. No party gir the people.
StitchInTime@piefed.social 1 day ago
I whole heartedly agree with your points, however I think it’s important to note that Trump did win the popular vote this time around, which if nothing else showcases how far the US has fallen.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 day ago
The koch brothers were behind the tea party, and ive never seen anything linking them to russia.
At a guess that astroturf movement was hijacked by others but im not sure we can pin much of thst on russia specifically.
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I’m going to be a pest and argue semantics.
For point number 2. Musk has never been an American, and i would argue that he has no true country as he only cares about himself. From what I understand, he created his business illegally after losing his visa status in the US for some time.
rayyy@piefed.social 2 days ago
Didn’t the orange rapist/felon mention the words traitor and hang when talking about those who warned soldiers to follow their oath to the constitution?
Projection to the nth degree.