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Comment by Sharlin

3 days ago

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> very explicitly stated goals of sowing discord within the US's former "allies", to weaken Europe, and to promote racist and fringe-right views.

The US government explicitly said that they seek to promote racist and fringe-right views? Do you have any sort of evidence to back it up?

  • Sure, if that’s your problem with my comment, feel free to rephrase it in your mind to something like "to promote fringe-right and anti-immigration parties and movements that any sane observer recognizes as authoritarian and racist because they’re not even bothering to dogwhistle". If you need a source for that you haven’t been following the news.

    • > not even bothering to dogwhistle

      So, basically, you are saying that they are openly racist?

      Is there any evidence of this?

      > If you need a source for that you haven’t been following the news.

      Nice deflection. You are the one making outlandish claims, so the proof is on you and not the “news” that someone is supposed to follow.

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This is fine. If successful, the next administration can just leverage it for a different kind of agenda. In fact, by the time we know whether it's successful, this admin will likely be gone. I'm a bit conflicted though. I hated the last admin's censorship efforts for wrong think. Now, looking at the online discourse landscape, I'm starting to think we might have thrown out the baby with the birth water. Why can't we just be normal!