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I have a friend in Makedonya who wrote fake news articles im support of Donald Trump for two years. The best she could have made as a journalist was €350-€450 p

by belatw 5y ago

I have a friend in Makedonya who wrote fake news articles im support of Donald Trump for two years. The best she could have made as a journalist was €350-€450 per month. This is a nation where the average salary is €250/month and senior software engineers make maybe €1000-€1500. MKD’s biggest export is people because of their economy. Writing these articles she made €5000 per month. It was a life changing amount of money. Now she owns a 4-plex downtown and another 2 airbnb units. She has lifted her family into the middle-class thanks to this. Her employer profited millions; and they did no worse than the usa does to many other countries on a daily basis.

dash2 5y ago
I am afraid your friend is a professional liar. You seem to be trying to justify it with arguments that are hardly persuasive. (Seriously, it's fine because she got rich?) Be aware that while unashamedly bad guys can remain smart, people who want to keep their bad behaviour from themselves inevitably make themselves stupid by doing so.
- belatw 5y ago
  Who should I believe: my best friend’s fiancee whose house i stay at when I visit Skopje 8 times per year, and have known ror 6 years .. or some schmuck on a bulletin board? Considering America’s fanatical believe in freedom of speech and meddling in the sovereignity of other nations we have zero ground to stand on in this situation.
jfengel 5y ago
Honestly, I have a hard time even resenting your friend. Maybe she was especially good at her job, but most of what I saw from that industry was laughably bad. You'd have to be a complete moron to be taken in by it. That tens of millions were had more to do with the fact that we'd been doing it to ourselves for decades than with your friend's additions to it. Oh, certainly she made everything a tiny bit worse, but I don't have any anger to spare on top of the deep enmity I feel for the people who teed up the situation in which she worked. I have a sneaking suspicion that if your friend (and her coworkers) did something less despicable for a living it would not have made much difference. People right here carefully cultivated that environment of hatred and gullibility that your friend helped exploit. They're the real problems -- and they're still doing it.
worik 5y ago
That is good news. From afar I loved the Donald! Wrecking the wreckers!! For the rest of the world he was a much better choice than HC. She would have been dropping bombs, and using murderous robots just as Obama did. Much rather the USA is rulled by a selfish clown than some one who cares to use the horrendous weapons the USA has so many of. Well done your friend!!
- spoonjim 5y ago
  I can't blame other countries for cheering for the destruction of the United States from within, but keep in mind that power vacuums are quickly filled, and the next guy might be even worse.

by belatw 5y ago

dash2 5y ago

I am afraid your friend is a professional liar. You seem to be trying to justify it with arguments that are hardly persuasive. (Seriously, it's fine because she got rich?) Be aware that while unashamedly bad guys can remain smart, people who want to keep their bad behaviour from themselves inevitably make themselves stupid by doing so.

belatw 5y ago
Who should I believe: my best friend’s fiancee whose house i stay at when I visit Skopje 8 times per year, and have known ror 6 years .. or some schmuck on a bulletin board? Considering America’s fanatical believe in freedom of speech and meddling in the sovereignity of other nations we have zero ground to stand on in this situation.

jfengel 5y ago

Honestly, I have a hard time even resenting your friend. Maybe she was especially good at her job, but most of what I saw from that industry was laughably bad. You'd have to be a complete moron to be taken in by it. That tens of millions were had more to do with the fact that we'd been doing it to ourselves for decades than with your friend's additions to it. Oh, certainly she made everything a tiny bit worse, but I don't have any anger to spare on top of the deep enmity I feel for the people who teed up the situation in which she worked. I have a sneaking suspicion that if your friend (and her coworkers) did something less despicable for a living it would not have made much difference. People right here carefully cultivated that environment of hatred and gullibility that your friend helped exploit. They're the real problems -- and they're still doing it.

worik 5y ago

That is good news. From afar I loved the Donald! Wrecking the wreckers!! For the rest of the world he was a much better choice than HC. She would have been dropping bombs, and using murderous robots just as Obama did. Much rather the USA is rulled by a selfish clown than some one who cares to use the horrendous weapons the USA has so many of. Well done your friend!!

spoonjim 5y ago
I can't blame other countries for cheering for the destruction of the United States from within, but keep in mind that power vacuums are quickly filled, and the next guy might be even worse.