You know, people, while I loved your back and forth "arguing" for so many pages, in your place I would have asked a very different question:
"Why is the USA and to an extension West so susceptible to Russian/Chinese troll farm propaganda and outright lies?"
This is probably the most cost effective weapons both of them has and it shows.
A combination of being early adopters of social media which remains largely unregulated, combined with a public primed to imbibe all manner of nonsense thanks to decades of also largely unregulated programming by parties like Fox News (there's a strong correlation between countries where Newscorp has a significant presence and a rise in right wing extremism, see: New Zealand vs. the rest of the Anglosphere), as well as low to no emphasis on digital literacy (in the sense of being able to assess what claims and sources are valid and which are not).
Speech is like alcohol. Banning it outright is bad, but a complete free-for-all is equally so as attested by the hundreds of thousands of deaths in this country in the past few years as well as the rapid erosion of what little democratic aspects it has.
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The Were/Was Army: "Nooo you can't just vaporize my entire armored division, we had such a manly recruitment ad!"
The They/Them Army: "Omg integrated fire support?? Go off queen sksksks, JDAMs are such a gemini thing."
I assume that by "own far right" you mean USA.
First, 700k dead includes more than just "far right".
Second - only far right? AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA.... No, every "side" has fallen to trolling. Every. I said way ago in this thread - no finger pointing to republicans/trumpists/far rightists/whatever. It's a problem for the whole country.
This is by far the best and most argumented answer you have given so far on this forum.
*looks at the other 3 posters writing something sensless*
How about without slogans, eh?
The far right in the US has not fallen to any trolling, they do it to themselves. Referring to dangerous far right ideas as just 'trolling' is massively downplaying it.
And yeah, the whole anti-lockdown and anti-vax shit from the hard/far right is by far causing the most damage at the moment in the US. Russia having a big effect on US politics only happens in its wet dreams, back in the era of the USSR.
What else from any group even comes close when it comes to national-US politics?[Just because the foreign policy shit is a whole other topic]
Somebody is a bit salty over nothing. But its truly horrifying most people are not willing to respond with whole paragraphs to like 1 or 2 lines of text. I feel you.This is by far the best and most argumented answer you have given so far on this forum.
*looks at the other 3 posters writing something sensless*
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