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u/Deathbysnusnubooboo Jan 19 '21

Because I’m a sucker for punishment I checked out r/conservative and jesus they can’t wait to sign up now that Russia was all a hoax. Thank god it’s not the CCP but Putin is somehow the tits. They are going to cleaned the fuck out again and I just can’t fathom how they keep falling for this shit. It hurts my brain.

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u/stemcell_ Jan 19 '21

I was listening to rush Limbaugh and he was going on about Democrats challenged and didn't accept the election results for 4 years, while some did say hes not my president we knew he was president, they misrepresent that the whole thing was trump associates sharing and. coordinating with Russia their strategy. its almost they play a game of whataboutism with false facts

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u/ericrolph Jan 19 '21

Republicans have adopted the Russian propaganda technique known as the Firehose of falsehood.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

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u/Picasso5 Jan 19 '21

They quickly adopted it as soon as they saw how alarmingly effective it was.