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[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is deliberate, nation-state-sponsored disinformation not insane people though.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Not every crazy pro-Russian conspiracy is a Russian psy-op.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But this one fits too well into their narrative to be accidental.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Which narrative is that? "Putin is a hero?" Because other than that, I'm not seeing a narrative.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Western elites are trans dimensional space vampires that eat children and Great Leader Putin bravely fights for "traditional values" or some shit. Basically the whole QAnon, Alex Jones type idiocy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sounds like an American narrative, not a Russian one.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The American narrative is the Russian narrative. It’s obvious propaganda.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Okay, now you're coming up with a conspiracy theory to explain why this isn't a conspiracy theory.

The adrenachrome thing came from Q, who was not Russian but the father and son team of Jim and Ron Watkins, and they bastardized it from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

No Russians were necessary here. Just crazy people.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And you think the Russian troll farms had nothing to do with amplifying those theories?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think there is no reason to assume that is the case here.

[–] AMPher@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No reason to assume, there's a ton of evidence of Russian influence on western social media, especially on q-anon, anti-vax and conspiracy theories, they do this to destabilize western countries, and as you can see Trump got elected.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You're literally making an assumption unless you have evidence about this specific instance.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still stand by the assertion that the "good guy Putin" part of the narrative is no accident.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Because crazy right-wing people don't think Putin is a good guy who does heroic things? Only Russian operatives think that? Seems like a waste of said operatives in that case.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But like… is this a bot account though?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Only if it's got a matching bot YouTube account with someone else's videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@JaggerMeyYoa?app=desktop

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

~~Rumble is a Russian site.~~

Oi wait, sorry.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rumble is an online video platform, web hosting, and cloud services business[5][6] headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with its U.S. headquarters in Longboat Key, Florida, United States. It was founded in 2013 by Chris Pavlovski, a Macedonian Canadian technology entrepreneur. Rumble's cloud services business hosts Truth Social, and the video platform is popular among American conservative and far-right users. Rumble has been described as "alt-tech".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(company)

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Shit, sorry. Confused that with Ruptly.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It just usually is.