Dismissing someone as a possible Russian agent has to be the laziest response to ever have become a meme online. Such paranoia prevents good-faith engagement ov

Dismissing someone as a possible Russian agent has to be the laziest response to ever have become a meme online. Such paranoia prevents good-faith engagement over reconcilable differences of perspective while simultaneously allowing us to dismiss core ideological conflicts as being the result of deliberate misinformation campaigns. We live in an adversarial information environment, and in order to develop a realistic understanding of the world around us, we must be willing to begin with an assumption of good-faith, while not being naive enough to take every claim on its face. I believe they're tinfoiling. Nevertheless, false-flag operations represent a valid strategy that does not necessarily have to be attached to apocalyptic stakes, the government, or even cartoonishly shadowy cabals. Too many people too readily accuse inconvenient events or perspectives as malicious. I don't believe this was a false-flag attack. False-flag ops do exist, though we don't know exactly how common they are. The NYT recently ran a piece on a false-flag operation that was ran recently. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...