If I actually believed he would disband NATO and dismantle the American empire, for the sake of most of humanity, I’d have to vote for him.

The only reason he is threatening NATO is because he feels it’s not doing enough imperialism.

I didn’t believe him in 2016, and the fact that he didn’t do it makes him even less credible than he was back then.

No, not that, or icecream pizza, like a normal dough with chocolate and bananas on it.

Where? I should add it to my list of places to avoid.

Chocolate on pizza is a south american thing, I’ve never seen it in the US.

He also claimed the purpose of the threat was to strengthen NATO by getting more countries to increase their military budgets. Trump isn’t anti-imperialist.

If you look up the guy’s (now deleted) twitter, the guy was a pro-NATO nutcase who I guess earnestly believed Trump would disband NATO.

I’m not calling all people who are pro-NATO nutcases, I mean the dude was mentally ill and extremely pro NATO, claimed he had thousands of “NATO-trained Afghan troops” ready to defend Taiwan, claimed he was going to go fight in Ukraine, tried to buy a rocket from Elon Musk to assassinate Putin, etc.

Here’s his extremely hinged website: https://taiwanforeignlegion.com/

Damn, you’re getting George Soros bucks?

Would you show me what lead you to believe this? Do you have any evidence of an account whose actions are consistent with those of a bot? Say reposting old comments as a response to a repost to build fake history, or pretending to be one thing in one case and not others, or a sudden shift in content indicating the account was sold?

Or is it just easier to believe as it gives you an excuse not to examine your own beliefs?

This is a tiny place, and unlike reddit, there’s not enough history that you can just make bots repost old threads and comments or buy old accounts to generate fake histories without people catching on, and the admins of the instances would probably call it out if they noticed anything awry.

Do you genuinely believe that?

Do you always use a banana tree as your desk?

Yeah, I kinda suck at rhetoric. What’s a better way to present to people that the media pointing at foreigners exercising .001% of the malign influence they do serves to distract from the 99.99% of influence they exert? CNN wasn’t presenting wall to wall coverage of Trump in 2016 because of Russia, nor are they essentially giving republicans free advertising by accepting their framing on crime and foreign policy in Israel right now because of Russia.

DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with “age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn’t even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day”

Because peace is more popular than war. I assure you the western capitalist class haven’t been outbid by the Russians, although the distinction between western international bourgeoisie and Russian national bourgeoisie is complex.

Of course he is, but telling people to focus on one tiny segment of the capitalist class instead of understanding the actual system is fascism 101.

Instead of showing people how the system works and that the whole thing is against their interest, you just tell them it’s one particular group doing it wrong.

Also the issue isn’t “anyone over X dollars”, capitalist refers to the relationship with the means of production. Putin is part of the capitalist class because Russia is a capitalist state and Putin is literally the representative of the national bourgeoisie of Russia.

In September 2017, Facebook told congressional investigators it had discovered that hundreds of fake accounts linked to a Russian troll farm had bought $100,000 in advertisements targeting the 2016 U.S.

That year, CNN, Fox, and others spent billions influencing Americans.

Russia buying some facebook ads is utterly inconsequential next to the rest of FB, Fox, CNN, Reddit, and every other propaganda outlet directed at us by the capitalist class.

Military bomb disposal robot, with a 40 mm grenade launcher

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.php?armor_id=616

did not use any military equipment

Could have fooled me.

You’re pointing at a thing our own politicians and billionaires are currently doing and going “What if Russia did it too”.

Understanding that the media amplifies particular stories to promote a perspective that is in their interest and against your own doesn’t require the addition of a foreign power, that just muddies the issue.

No, there were contemporaries who were calling out the hypocrisy of owning slaves while talking about freedom. It was perceived as horrible back then too.