• psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    This is amazing. What’s the actual context? It doesn’t seem to fit the post it is responding to.

    I feel deeply the truthiness of that blurb

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      3 days ago

      It’s from 2015, second paragraph for the first part and a little more down on the second part. A russian, I’m assuming, propagandist admitting to what and how they’re doing it.

      I knew on the bad place that they were targeting me for just argument’s sake, but I could never quite put my finger on the how or why. This explains it. They also didn’t seem to care if it was a small subreddit or a large one, they went after me relentlessly. I was the one who followed influential people btw, not the influencer.

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        3 days ago

        Sounded more like a US operation than a Russian one. I missed the part where russia was mentioned. They mentioned DARPA and the Pentagon.

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          When I first got to the bad place, the russians were much more lax about admitting they were russian. That was right around when this was written. We would even joke about it and they talk about it being just a job and such. It was kind of hilarious and sort of innocent when you look back on it.

          I can confidently say it was definitely not US who was targeting me. It might have been paid for by US citizens, but it wasn’t US people. Chinese and russians have different vibes too.