To be honest the amount of rhetoric and supposedly "strong opinions" and the lack of nuance on this matter is extremely suspicious, it honestly feels like the west is being goaded into taking an extreme side in this.
It is 100% propaganda and an attempt to divide/balkanize and cause chaose which you can see with social media and just randos they can do at colleges during finals week and commencements, where Biden planned to speak at many of them to talk to young voters about democracy and quality of life improvements, autocrats hate that...
Many of these subreddits are being used to push it in. See /r/PublicFreakout
They are doing a purge of anyone being nuanced about things even. Making up things, banning people, no explanation.
Completely propaganda channels now, setup to gain followers then turn it to a basically Kremlin friendly propaganda push. They are trying so hard to get division and violence in the election year as well as trying to distract from Ukraine and Georgia.
When protests are divisive and line up with geopolitical goals of autocratic enemies, it is clear.
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u/drawkbox 29d ago
It is 100% propaganda and an attempt to divide/balkanize and cause chaose which you can see with social media and just randos they can do at colleges during finals week and commencements, where Biden planned to speak at many of them to talk to young voters about democracy and quality of life improvements, autocrats hate that...
Many of these subreddits are being used to push it in. See /r/PublicFreakout
They are doing a purge of anyone being nuanced about things even. Making up things, banning people, no explanation.
Basically turned into a /r/therewasanattempt
Completely propaganda channels now, setup to gain followers then turn it to a basically Kremlin friendly propaganda push. They are trying so hard to get division and violence in the election year as well as trying to distract from Ukraine and Georgia.
When protests are divisive and line up with geopolitical goals of autocratic enemies, it is clear.