As in Poland in 2015, so in the United States in 2016: no one considered the totalitarian implications of the selective public release of private communications.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#russia #poland #usa #bots #trolls

@RickiTarr

#Midterms2026 #Midterms

Whiny voices soon on #Mastodon:

"both sides the same"

"i oddly focus on only one issue where #Democrats aren't perfect"

"nothing matters, all is #corruption"

and other #toxicIdealism #psyop

these are not organic voices

they will trumpet their #leftism bonafides like Russian #trolls on Twitter with #MAGA flags but they are #agentProvocateur divide and conquer

don't get me wrong:

yes, the Democrats suck

but if you don't see the choice?

oof

@AndHuman "genocidal dems"
Perhaps you haven't noticed:
1, the election is over
2,Trump is planning to level Gaza

3 I #Block #Trolls

@billseitz @GottaLaff

@kims

My Father was the token conservative in an otherwise "liberal" family. During the Obama admin he started sending/forwarding conspiracy theories to everyone, usually once or twice a week. Some of us would dutifully "bring the facts" and debunk each of these in turn, usually just in time for the next one. This got to be such a consistent thing I asked my Dad about it, and he admitted he was just trying to get his "liberal" family to react (almost a payback thing.)

We stopped responding and the trolling sort of faded away without confrontation or hurt feelings (that I know of).

@flipperwald right! -I met this one rhe other day

@gleick #Give to #Wikipedia. How much? Until it feels good. They’re going to need all of it if this bunch rally the #trolls against them.