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"Russia-aligned threat actors" has a whole new meaning this last week.
by 4ndrewl 2y ago
"Russia-aligned threat actors" has a whole new meaning this last week.
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- josefresco 2y agoIndeed. It now potentially includes a very long list of Americans.
- user3939382 2y agoWhat does that mean?
- chinathrow 2y agoTrump and his voters.
- burningChrome 2y ago[dead]
- Juliate 2y agoThey are still all trumpis now.
- warkdarrior 2y agoNobody labeled Trump voters as "redneck, white nationalists" in this thread. The claim was that Trump and his voters are "Russia-aligned", which is obvious at least for Trump and his immediate admin appointees.
- LoganDark 2y agoI don't have opinions on most of this stuff but I know of some distant relative of mine who voted for Trump not because he's some sort of fascist but just because he didn't understand why voting for Trump maybe wasn't the best idea. People like this probably exist all over the place.
- ericjmorey 2y agoWhat difference does that make? More people being openly malicious doesn't make them right.
- kelnos 2y agoHe also failed to secure a majority of the votes cast, winning with a mere plurality. (Not that the raw number of votes cast actually matters all that much, given our idiotic presidential electoral system.) So what? Totally agreed that it's out of bounds to label all Trump voters as rednecks & white nationalists. But not sure where you're getting that: read upthread. No one said anything like that. Just "Russia-aligned state actors". Which is also pretty silly. But in a way, it's worse than all that. If his supporters were actually all rednecks & white nationalists (or Russia-aligned state actors), at least we could say, "well, the country is actually full of shitty, uneducated, racist people, so I guess this actually is the will of the people". But right, that's not the case. Instead, Trump and the GOP have lied and manipulated to the point they've managed to dupe a much more diverse group of people into believing in Trump. Or, at the very least, into believing that the system needs to burn in order for it to be remade in a way that will serve these people's interests. All this is a crock, of course, and there are already quite a few surprised and upset Trump voters who have experienced an interruption or loss of some government service that they depend on. So ok, let's expand it the list. Sure, there are rednecks & white nationalists. But there are also just regular ol' idiots who fell for Trump's nonsense. And actively awful people who are fine with a lot of others getting hurt, just to spite the current establishment.
- user3939382 2y agoNot sure why hating Russia should be treated as axiomatic.
- gfkclzhzo 2y ago[flagged]
- e40 2y agoPOTUS giving Putin just what he wants re Ukraine. Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave at near light speed, I imagine.
- ziddoap 2y agoThey are saying that the USA is potentially a Russia-aligned threat actor.
- pawelduda 2y agoTrump blames Ukraine for starting the war, Putin is happy
- 4ndrewl 2y agoI heard he also blames Poland for being invaded and starting WWII. As to that Archduke Ferdinand, diving in front of that bullet. Was asking for it.
- phoe-krk 2y ago> I heard he also blames Poland for being invaded and starting WWII. This one is fake, even if plausible. https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/02/ueberfall-auf-polen.html https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/02/ueberfall-auf-polen.ht... - Der Postillon is equivalent to US's The Onion.
- margalabargala 2y agoThe person you replied to was joking, but it makes it even funnier that you didn't think they were.
- phoe-krk 2y ago
- davidw 2y agoI wonder if someone in the US will declare that, actually, Signal is actively targeting the Russia-aligned threat actors.
- morkalork 2y agoOr that Signal shouldn't have started it in the first place
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- Frederation 2y ago[flagged]
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- Frederation 2y agoboo
- samaltmanfried 2y ago[flagged]
- tjasdhg 2y ago[flagged]
- Swoerd 2y agoSorry that you are so inconvenienced by the Russian coup of the US.
- ziddoap 2y ago>This comment isn't witty, and it doesn't contain any useful information or promote discussion either. Complaining about the comment isn't witty, contain useful information, or promote discussion either. I would recommend being the change you want to see in the world (or avoid political threads).
- harperawl 2y agoI strongly agree - HN has become increasingly Redditified in the political discussion sense. I think this website has the potential to have (and often already has) some of the best serious discussion on the internet, so it really nags at me that people have eroded this standard a lot recently IMO.