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and how are conspiracy stories about Russia any more/less reasonable than conspiracy stories about deep (US) gov?
by Chris2048 5y ago
and how are conspiracy stories about Russia any more/less reasonable than conspiracy stories about deep (US) gov?
- MagicWishMonkey 5y agoIs it really a conspiracy if US intelligence agencies say Russia has been stirring up shit? The way right wingers bend over backwards to pretend that Russia doesn't have a long history of this sort of thing never ceases to amaze me.
- mistermann 5y agoMore abstractly, most everyone bends over backwards to promote their subconsciously estimated personal ~~illusion~~ model of reality as being representative of shared reality. As the saying goes: "Humans gonna human".
- Chris2048 5y ago> to pretend that Russia I didn't pretend anything, I compared two things. The US intelligence agencies don't themselves have a clean record: COINTELPRO, PRISM, CIA spying on the Senate intelligence committee (then lying about it). Each of those counts as a conspiracy, and it's of note that people like Edward Snowden have been hunted and chased out of the country (and people like Julian Assange similarly persecuted).