It was a mistake to treat Russiagate like a joke, with ironic detachment. It was laughable, but also dangerous, with 2 goals: 1) re-train Americans to see Russia as a grave threat to the US and 2) smear anyone questioning Dems as a Kremlin agent. - Conspiracies

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It was a mistake to treat Russiagate like a joke, with ironic detachment. It was laughable, but also dangerous, with 2 goals: 1) re-train Americans to see Russia as a grave threat to the US and 2) smear anyone questioning Dems as a Kremlin agent. (twitter.com)

posted 4 years ago by axolotl_peyotl 4 years ago by axolotl_peyotl +9 / -0

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– axolotl_peyotl [S] 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I knew something was up when I and every other actual conspiracy researcher was labeled "muh russian agent" overnight in 2016. It was such a blatant scam and they're so desperate that it's all they have, because they seem intellectually incapable of moving on and letting it go.

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