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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works

Since I've seen a lot of comments skeptical on the Russia ties to Trump, I opened my bookmark vault for you to see here. It's not organized and has other stuff in there. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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The need for validation made me break open the vault, lol. You asked for it:

Edit (I found some more, but they're more propaganda focused):

top 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I know I’m going to get downvoted to hell for this, But without any commentary, I don’t know what the first link to ProRepublica proves that there is a tie between Trump and Russia.

I was planning to send this to some of my sceptical friends, but if the first link contains hundreds of hours of random footage of an attempted insurrection, they will probably not be motivated enough to click the other links.

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be included, but I think it matters which links you put in the top three spots because that’s going to determine whether people are convinced or not. I think the last two links probably might be better suited for being the first links.

I agree with OP that you don’t want to argue after you dump the links, but then you have to make sure the links are really solid.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This needs to be brought to the front of the internet. Good work!!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Thanks. I thought everyone knew this stuff, but then I realized that was up to 10 years ago that this all came out.

Edit: This quote describes the way they operate here on Lemmy. It's a smaller community. So if it feels like people are unnecessarily angry, this is why. You're either an influencer or being influenced.

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I’d like your entire vault please. Not just these ;)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The Devin Nunes made me laugh, I forgot how entertaining he was.

https://www.techdirt.com/tag/devin-nunes-cow/

Edit: This is funny too, a tweet by his mom:

https://imgur.com/oObkRxj