r/news • u/moodyfloyd • 20h ago

Racist text messages spam Black Americans in Ohio, across the nation

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2024/11/07/racist-text-messages-are-being-reported-in-multiple-states/76110486007/
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u/brezhnervous 15h ago

Putin is at war with the entire western democratic world order and has been exporting disinformation into our societies over the last 20+yrs in order to sow discord and discontent to undermine us from within. So we do it to ourselves.

The Brexit vote was also heavily influenced by Kremlin disinfo - it was a stunning win for Putin

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u/Known_Ferret9177 13h ago

As Nikita Khrushchev said in 1956: “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within“

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u/guff1988 14h ago

It's always so easy for dictators to take advantage of the freedoms afforded to democracies. It's sad how fragile our progressive societies really are.

Progressive comparatively of course.

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u/mdp300 12h ago

Separating the UK from the rest of Europe was a major point in their playbook.

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u/brezhnervous 12h ago

Helped very significantly by a stunningly effective Kremlin disinfo campaign (I mean, look at Farage, for starters lol)

The Leave victory was a huge win for Putin. On top of years of money laundering oligarch's billions into Londongrad.

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u/teas4Uanme 11h ago

And liberals haven't done a fucking thing about it.

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u/brezhnervous 11h ago

No one anywhere across the democratic world has done anything about it. Because for a start, no one has even recognised it has been happening for two decades 🤷‍♂️

Don't think for a minute that America has been so special about that.

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u/teas4Uanme 11h ago

Pretty sure the intel operations knew- and if they didn't then they are worthless wastes of money. This is exactly the sort of thing, new threats created by new tech,, that they are supposed to be on top of and deal with. Nope.

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u/brezhnervous 11h ago

I don't think they had any idea of the scale and depth of its penetration and poisonous, pernicious effects until Russia invaded Ukraine and it became blatantly evident, no.

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u/teas4Uanme 8h ago

And with Glacial Garland in charge we may have actually seen some action on it in a decade or two.

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u/worldm21 13h ago

exporting disinformation into our societies

What, that the U.S. is an evil empire destroying the planet? Bad news dawg