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katiecharm t1_jecx5bu wrote

It’s happening right here on Reddit, constantly. They post and upvote anti-American content and photos constantly and have a rah-rah circle jerk about how evil America is in the comments. They also love to incite the far right to pass some insane law or do some insane stunt, and then they post about it HERE, and in the comments you can see those same accounts subtly egging people to violence. Their goal is to ultimately pit Americans versus Americans and tear us apart. And it’s working. This site is becoming rapidly a hate snake pit, powered by Russian troll farms.

And the Russian paper army HATE being called out; they will bandwagon onto making fun of you, insulting you, calling you a schitzo, etc.

It’s also so tiring, and the Reddit admins don’t seem to care as long as the site continues to get streamlined towards their IPO.

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CosmicSpaghetti t1_jee305i wrote

That's their whole angle - sow discord & exacerbate division along political/cultural lines.

I just wish I could say it wasn't wickedly effective, but turns out we don't need much pushing to go full tribalism & start ripping each other apart.

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Faulty_Plan t1_jef8w38 wrote

So many times I see the same comments that could be foreign agents or just dumb people repeating their rhetoric:

Elite being above the law

Subsidized costs, privatized profit

over on (other sub) they’re saying…

police are a gang

There are so many statements that end conversation and head toward apathy and giving up. And then there’s dark humor on sensitive subjects.

Like, I can’t tell who’s a real person, but if I was paid to be a divisive warrior using social media, those are exactly the things I’d promote. And I’d get upvotes along the way, which is the scary part making me question the quantity of bad actors at play.

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ItilityMSP t1_jeehos1 wrote

I post anti-American sentiment all the time, not because I’m a troll but because the USA’s systems affect policy around the world and these systems are horrible for most people. Example USA is exporting its healthcare system around the world, this has a polarizing effect on public healthcare systems,like Canada, Britain and Germany, now many specialists previously seen in public practice in hospitals can only be seen in private clinics, where services that were free in a public practice now must be paid for in a private practice. So the tendency now is to defund public services to save costs but for society as a whole healthcare spending increases rapidly. Some people see this as acceptable as service availability increases with cost if you can afford it, if you can’t too bad. The essential export is profits over public good.

Many Europeans and Canadians have anti-american sentiments yet they are our allies in many areas and an affront to reality in many others. Nothing is black and white or brown and woke, nuance is everywhere but it’s in this nuance we can understand each other.

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