FrostyTheDoo

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[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The answer is money and eliminating competition for money

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The way US politics has gone the last 30 years, the advisory board would be politicized and polarized within 3 election cycles, no matter how the board itself is selected.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Here's the official statement

The US business that was implicated has been named as Tenet Media, which employs Tim Pool and Benny Johnson, noted Trump supporters. Each of whom was being paid $100s of thousands of dollars by Tenet, who was in turn being paid directly by Russia. Tenet has since shut down and the creators are lawyering up.

Here's an article from BBC giving more details about who was involved, with quotes from the conservative influencers that took the money, and from the DOJ. I will put some quotes below but I strongly suggest you read the whole thing because it does seem like you personally have fallen victim to this Russian propaganda.

“While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine,”

The platform's two founders "admitted to each other in their private communications that their 'investors' were, in truth and in fact, the 'Russians'", the indictment says

Editing to add the actual indictment for you, since we care a lot about sources in this thread! https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366266/dl

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I know you quoted Putin's own words, that was my whole point lol. He said those words in response to the US GOVERNMENT saying that he is paying conservative influencers to influence the US election.

So, which source do you believe, Putin, or the US government? Go on

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

He is in a LOT of debt, financially and politically, to Russia. And he also is desperate to win, because if he loses he's going to jail. He'll do anything Putin wants him to

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

Here's a guy who believes things that come out of Putin's mouth, over his own eyes and his own government.

Remind me, which side just got busted for being literally paid by Russia to post pro-russian propaganda about the election and Ukraine? Wasn't that conservatives? If Putin wants Kamala, why is Russia paying American conservative influencers millions of dollars to sway voters away from her?

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You can choose only 2

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's an awareness thing. Everyone uses it because everyone else uses it, because it's the main one people know about, because Meta has unlimited money to market it and scale it, which are exorbitantly expensive.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I think it's an honest question, which is a respectful thing to ask if you don't know. I myself haven't been sure, because I've heard it pronounced multiple different ways even by news pundits.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

One of the first times I smoked weed I did it wrong and swallowed a bunch of smoke. I proceeded to get sick in the back seat of my friend's car and started believing that my windpipe was made out of glass and if I turned my head it would shatter and slice my throat open. I still think about it sometimes, never knew it had a name!

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