Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% of Democrats and 29.5% of people who didn’t identify with one particular party.

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    So much of what is being flagged as “Russian disinformation” is being parroted (if not straight up propagated) by western news media, western social media, and western talking heads.

    At what point does a Mercer-funded, MAGA-coded, Texas based, English language broadcast constitute American Media? Is this a “just one drop” rule, where any positive (or insufficiently negative) news item or talking point or image marks the entire operation as “Russian”? Are guys like Tim Pool and Alex Jones still Americans? Or are they Russian? Is Tucker Carlson, the son of a CIA director and a midwestern cattle-country heiress, a Presidential speechwriter and US cable news pundit and avowed Cold Warrior, a Russian? Is CNN Russian? Is Exxon Russian?

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      If I sing the Russian national anthem it doesn’t become an American anthem because an American is repeating the words

      Edit: you cant muddy the water fuckface. Russian propaganda is still Russian propaganda idiot

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        Ok, cool story. But nobody is singing the russian national anthem. I don’t think any of these people are smart enough to know the words, tune, etc.

        Literally not happening.

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        If you take money from an American businessman to go on an American TV show hosted by an American pundit with a big American flag in the background to join a conversation about how American politicians should vote on American policy, and then you finish the discussion by singing the Mexican anthem, is the entire enterprise captured by Gloria Shenbaum?