Anatomy of a Russian Propaganda Troll

[Chain Chungus]

These lines are moving, baby. Crimea river.

It's all fun and games until you start WW3. Of course, like all nazis, that's what you actually want.

[Haven]

It's all fun and games until you start WW3. Of course, like all nazis, that's what you actually want.

Knew that mentioning Crimea would make some butts hurt. Well, I have a stock of bottlecaps and I've beat Fallout New Vegas on hardest difficulty with survival mode on. I'm prepared

[Mormolyce]

These lines are moving, baby. Crimea river.

Crimea is a pile of nothing in the middle of nowhere with a third world economy that most people don't remember exists, it'll fit right in in Russia I suppose

[Haven]

Crimea is a pile of nothing in the middle of nowhere with a third world economy that most people don't remember exists, it'll fit right in in Russia I suppose

Judging by the tantrums it kept throwing around since 2014, the administration of United States has a different opinion on importance of Crimea.

[Blue Minuteman]

Judging by the tantrums it kept throwing around since 2014, the administration of United States has a different opinion on importance of Crimea.

Clearly you haven't been keeping up-to-date on world affairs if you think the current administration cares one bit about Crimea.

But of course, that's what happens when you suckle on the teat of Putinist propaganda.

[Haven]

Clearly you haven't been keeping up-to-date on world affairs if you think the current administration cares one bit about Crimea.

But of course, that's what happens when you suckle on the teat of Putinist propaganda.

Of course it does not, Crimea is just a convenient excuse for American aggression.

[Skroe]

Your every post is just golden. And the part I love the most is your doomsaying. Remember how you said Russia is about to collapse and its economy is done for, way back in 2014?

You mean how exactly what I said would happen did happen?











You're probably thinking "there goes Skroe again with spamming infographics". Except every single one of these tells a significant fact about the trend-lines of the Russian economy since 2014, and how it looks at the levels of state finances, markets and Russian citizens.

I'll spare the big paragraph: you people are in some deep shit, and I don't envy any economy facing high single digit inflation double-digit annual inflation.

[Mormolyce]

But hey, they got Crimea. Winning?

[Deleted]

Putin is the problem. Russia without Putin could still be a part of the western world. But instead putin chosed to make war against the west and against democracy. And war and dictatorship never lead to a healthy society.

Russia suffers thanks to Putins politics. A militarist nationalist society is nothing to go for. As militarism always leads to war.

[downnola]

Putin is the problem. Russia without Putin could still be a part of the western world. But instead putin chosed to make war against the west and against democracy. And war and dictatorship never lead to a healthy society.

Russia suffers thanks to Putins politics. A militarist nationalist society is nothing to go for. As militarism always leads to war.

Many Russians support and enable Putin. You can't place all of the blame on him. Russians have to solve the problem themselves, individually, from within. In a way, that's a problem for every citizen of every country in the world. But, it's certainly more urgent in Russia.

[Chain Chungus]

Many Russians support and enable Putin. You can't place all of the blame on him. Russians have to solve the problem themselves, individually, from within. In a way, that's a problem for every citizen of every country in the world. But, it's certainly more urgent in Russia.

There is a large resistance in Russia but every day more and more are arrested or assassinated. These people need our support now more than ever.

The Putinistas, however, are like 45's supporters: blinded by the dictator's propaganda machine and willing to live in a constant state of contradiction, ever fearful of the next bout of cognitive dissonance. And always waiting with bated breath for the current doublethink from "dear leader."

[Haven]

There is a large resistance in Russia but every day more and more are arrested or assassinated. These people need our support now more than ever.

The Putinistas, however, are like 45's supporters: blinded by the dictator's propaganda machine and willing to live in a constant state of contradiction, ever fearful of the next bout of cognitive dissonance. And always waiting with bated breath for the current doublethink from "dear leader."

When did I hear that song before? Was it before invasion of Iraq, that, as we know, made that country a heaven?

[Blue Minuteman]

Looks like Trumputin has started turning on their own people. Are Stalinist-style purges next? Or will it be the gulags instead?

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/04/righ...urity-adviser/

[Mormolyce]

Looks like Trumputin has started turning on their own people. Are Stalinist-style purges next? Or will it be the gulags instead?

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/04/righ...urity-adviser/

Maybe they could make their angle more obvious lol.

[Blue Minuteman]

Maybe they could make their angle more obvious lol.

No kidding, not even trying to hide it!

And the quisling GOP will enable 45 right up until his gestapo is knocking on their doors to take them away.

[The Moscovian Candidate]

Looks like Trumputin has started turning on their own people. Are Stalinist-style purges next? Or will it be the gulags instead?

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/04/righ...urity-adviser/

From another source:

Russia Is Continuing Its Cyberattack on America Right Now
Meanwhile, Trump keeps calling the Russia investigation “a total fabrication.”

Bill Buzenberg
Aug. 9, 2017 6:00 AM

President Donald Trump trashed the Russia investigation once again last week at a rally in West Virginia, saying that “there were no Russians in our campaign” and denouncing “a total fabrication” to enthralled supporters. “Have you seen any Russians in West Virginia or Ohio or Pennsylvania?” he asked mockingly. “Are there any Russians here tonight? Any Russians?”

There may well have been, for anyone in the crowd scrolling through a smartphone.

As Trump spoke, Russian-linked social-media networks were busy attacking Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, using the same type of digital operations that the Kremlin deployed against the 2016 presidential election. Russian-linked Twitter accounts had for days been piling onto a growing campaign by the so-called alt-right to purge Trump’s national security adviser—who is viewed by some of the president’s base as a “globalist tool” and a threat to their hardline nationalist agenda. Meanwhile, recent content from Russian state media RT and Sputnik has included stories such as “What’s Behind Trump’s Striking Back at Washington’s ‘Russophobes’”—a piece that went on at length about McMaster “falling out of favor with Trump.”

Some of Russia’s digital efforts to continue to disrupt and influence US politics are now more in the open, thanks to “Hamilton 68,” a new dashboard tracing Russian-linked information warfare on Twitter. A project of the nonpartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy, Hamilton tracks 600 accounts in real time, analyzing “a network of accounts linked to and participating in Russian influence campaigns,” according to the site.

The dashboard tracker shows that #FireMcMaster became a top trending hashtag on their global list last week. As the New York Times reported Friday, the #FireMcMaster hashtag was tweeted more than 50,000 times in the previous 48 hours. “Echoing the drumbeat were social media organs tied to the Russian government,” the Times said. The dashboard also shows that each day the Russian-led effort delivered some 20,000 to 25,000 tweets.

“Here’s what #Putin wants Americans talking about,” tweeted former FBI agent Clint Watts, one of the cyber warfare experts behind the project.

How did the campaign start? Hamilton 68 engineer J.M. Berger told Mother Jones, “It appears that the #FireMcMaster hashtag campaign may have originated on Reddit, and users there took it to Twitter and directed it to prominent alt-right figures until it began to trend. At some point in this process, the Russian influence networks picked up on it and began to amplify it as well.”

“The Knives are Coming Out for H.R. McMaster,” is the way Business Insider described the spreading alt-right campaign on Friday, amid a fresh round of McMaster-bashing stories from Breitbart News and others. “Allies of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon intensified their battle against national security adviser H.R. McMaster this week as McMaster began asserting more control over the National Security Council and fired officials appointed by his immediate predecessor, Michael Flynn.”

The Russians likely were happier when Flynn was running the NSC for Trump and cultivating friendly ties with departing Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, who appears to be no fan of Hamilton 68. According to a story in Sputnik on Saturday, Kislyak said he was “surprised” by the effort. “A tool after tool is being created to counter RT and Sputnik that have become regarded as almost a threat of a hybrid invasion in many countries,” he said.

The Kremlin’s M.O. is also to work the active fault lines in US politics. Faced with the rising social-media campaign against his national security adviser, Trump late last week sought to tamp down speculation of an imminent firing: “General McMaster and I are working very well together,” he said in a statement to the New York Times. “He is a good man and very pro-Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”

Meanwhile, another campaign picked up by the Russians this week has been a surge in the use of the #ResignPaulRyan hashtag, again echoing pressure from the nationalist base against the speaker of the House to be more compliant with Trump’s agenda. Other trending topics spotlighted by the tracker include Russian-linked promotion of Trump TV, a new “real news” video series produced in Trump Tower that the Washington Post says “feels a lot like real propaganda—or state TV.”

Though the provenance of the war on McMaster may ultimately remain murky, the bottom line is that the alt-right (whose current rallying cries include “bring back Michael Flynn”) and the Russians are both engaged in an active campaign to get rid of the current national security adviser. But even if that doesn’t come to pass, the political intrigue and infighting involved contributes to the Trump administration’s turmoil, in part by exacerbating uncertainty among US allies about American leadership on national security matters. That is in Russia’s keen interest, and they will keep at it—even as Trump, as he did again on Monday, keeps calling the whole thing a hoax.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ica-right-now/

[Blue Minuteman]

Yep now the nazis try to consolidate their power. This is why the GOP is being removed from the White House one by one. They will go after their own collaborators first to destroy the evidence and remove the challenge to themselves.

Spicer gone, the nazi Stephen Miller takes his place. Priebus goes, the nazi Bannon resumes his oral auto-fellatio. And of course, Gorka pulling strings from the shadows. Then 45 attacks all of the quisling GOP that put us in this very position.

[Chain Chungus]

Yep now the nazis try to consolidate their power. This is why the GOP is being removed from the White House one by one. They will go after their own collaborators first to destroy the evidence and remove the challenge to themselves.

Spicer gone, the nazi Stephen Miller takes his place. Priebus goes, the nazi Bannon resumes his oral auto-fellatio. And of course, Gorka pulling strings from the shadows. Then 45 attacks all of the quisling GOP that put us in this very position.

They are too busy taking part in the mess to realize their own peril.

[Blue Minuteman]

Yea...my grandpa didn't fight fascism in WW2 just to have a White House overrun by them. All while the nazi putin's "president" defends terrorists, murderers, and traitors. The same ones who champion two separate failed regimes that both attacked the US and both got their asses kicked.

He defends people who's ideology led to the deaths of some 400,000 real patriots in WW2. He spits on their graves while shitting on America. Just like a good little puppet for the nazi regime of putin.

[Haven]

Yea...my grandpa didn't fight fascism in WW2 just to have a White House overrun by them. All while the nazi putin's "president" defends terrorists, murderers, and traitors. The same ones who champion two separate failed regimes that both attacked the US and both got their asses kicked.

He defends people who's ideology led to the deaths of some 400,000 real patriots in WW2. He spits on their graves while shitting on America. Just like a good little puppet for the nazi regime of putin.

With all that religious fervor... Do you even know who you're backing?