danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I think he's trying to whip up concern over Russian meddling to discredit the Brexit result and undermine support for it. It's the modern Zinoviev letter.
"The British people expressed their view very clearly on 23rd June"
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I don't like last June's referendum result very much myself, but blaming it on Putin seems conspiranoid.
And I've just read that 'business insider' link's contents properly now myself. Zero of any substance.
newbie
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I was asking the question
newbie
undisambiguated
yes it's all there, you asked, I answered, you parodied, adding that "doesn't fully explain how they have moved from the marginal shadows to the centre stage of politics". I just wondered if you had anything of substance that might help explain.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Not convinced that a case of simple rephrasing/ rebranding or merely repeating attacks on target hate groups fully explains what's happened. If they had a limited audience five years ago how do we explain the appeal now? Do Trump and the alt right say something more than just that? Or was it that Clinton didn't say enough ? How do we explain those members of target hate groups that didn't come out and vote for Clintons identity politics or in some cases voted for Trump?
newbie
undisambiguated
I think we've all got more questions than answers, tbh. I can suggest that Gamergate gave a lot of atomised apolitical people a cause and provided a receptive pool for a few fish to become quite big and influential. Or that Clinton was a poor candidate, but then so was Trump on any rational assessment.
And it's blatantly obvious that people have grievances which the right/alt-right have harnessed better than anyone with liberal or left ideas.
Individuals with personal views.
elbows
Well-Known Member
The story is back, at least in regards to the St Petersburg troll factory...
If you saw these tweets, you were targeted by Russian Brexit propaganda
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I love all this Russian 'meddling' - it seems to amount to some tweets. Whereas the US has never actively killed millions of people by overthrowing democracies around the world to ensure that various countries vote the right way, oh no...
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Whataboutery of the most absurd kind.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Reminds you of the Guardian's ridiculous efforts to meddle with the US election by asking their readers to badger Americans not to vote for Bush.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Have you checked under your bed? There might be a Russian hiding there.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Yeah but look at the quality of the tweets in question - with memes like this democracy is surely under great threat
coley
Well-Known Member
If it's one of the gorgeous looking ones that keep popping up on my sidebar
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Yeah but look at the quality of the tweets in question - with memes like this democracy is surely under great threat
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I think the number of people who would find that brilliant and incisive is not insignificant. Say what you like about the Kremlin, but crediting us with no more intelligence than we deserve is probably sound.
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
A couple of weeks back, this bampot at my phone company was trying to sell me a new contract with a phone instead of another SIM only.
He went-in for the kill when I said that I was thinking on buying a new phone the next time I was in Germany:
After Brexit, European phones won't work in the UK...!
Err, OK. Just send me the details of your offers - I'm still waiting!
He went-in for the kill when I said that I was thinking on buying a new phone the next time I was in Germany:
After Brexit, European phones won't work in the UK...!
Err, OK. Just send me the details of your offers - I'm still waiting!
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