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Bet we're gonna find out years later that this was the outcome of a successful foreign psyop to destroy US infrastructure. Kinda like how ppl were shooting at substation transformers a while back
I mean, is obvious now, and has been for quite a while that Russia has been pummeling us with psyops
It may have started with Russia however once it hit a tipping point. Just gotta like it run free.
In a few decades the Tea Party, MAGA, and various formerly fringe conspiracy groups will be used as case studies for how an externally boosted and manipulated movement inevitably outgrows its handlers and blazes out of control, burning the hand that feeds.
Or maybe not. Nobody seems to have learned anything from all the other foreign-backed revolutionary groups that ended horribly, after all.
I don't even think it's Russia anymore. It feels like it's worse... like the CIA or 5 eyes. It feels American made.
It's propagated by the current corporate climate in America, where essentially both the media, and the means to transmit the message are now controlled in large part by less than 20 individuals, which makes it very easy for them to all be on the same page... Even if it's not in the interest of Americans.
Failure to regulate social media as broadcast media is a major contributor, along with overall failure to crack down on mergers and monopolies, as well as many other things, got us where we are
This has been obvious to anyone paying attention for decades now. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia turned their massive propaganda infrastructure outwards.
Maybe, but I kinda doubt it. I think this psyop is Made in AMERICA™
ETA: Actually, I have no clue what to believe. I'm just a Texan screaming at an echo chamber of stupidity. I forgot that just because we've become a self-drinking glass of idiocy doesn't mean that there could have been an external catalyst.
Yeah, you just got a throw your hands up and say yeah, I realize someone's pulling the strings, it's just that there's so many possible "someones" that I can't begin to imagine who it actually is. Which is also by design.
Social media can influence a lot of people into doing things that go against their own interests