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[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're right, but this is also going on:

Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The right wasn't radicalized by accident, and it would be naive to think the same manipulation isn't being done to the left - say by advocating for violent resistance.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

its easier to do it on the right

[–] NaibofTabr -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps it was easier to push the right in that direction, to get them started, but nothing will disable the left quite like elitism. Nothing makes the people on the left special, or somehow immune.

If we recognize that this kind of manipulation is happening to others, we should be examining our own behaviors, motivations, and intentions for similar effects.

I have no interest in being manipulated into contributing to the chaos and destruction to serve someone else's political goals. And if we believe that the path the right has taken is lined with mistakes and cruelty, why would we then follow them down the same path?

Our path should look like this:

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Renee should've just put a flower in that gun before getting shot in the face.