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    popjam@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

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    popjam@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 11 days ago
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      Except this is also how the “democracy” that is modern day Russia was created. Everything that’s happened in the U.S. since ~2012 that has been driving us to the brink of collapse by furthering the divide between left and right has been eerily similar.

      Psychological Inoculation and Astroturfing: Preparing for exploitation of U.S. secession movements

      A lot of people don’t know this, bc it’s not exactly clear what they were doing there, but coincidentally the Heritage Foundation also seemed to play a role in the creation of the first free market in the earliest days of post-soviet Russia.

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        thank you for not giving in to their rhetoric and letting this point die.

        i get endless downvotes on all social media anytime i say a civil war is the absolute fucking worst outcome of any of the current trends.

        guess people are just out for blood rn. i wouldn’t make it sound so innocent, tho. why are people out for blood? lots of answers, none satisfying enough.

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          Take an up vote from me. Civil wars nearly always end in tragedy beyond the imaginations of those who start them.

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          I believe the most obvious is they benefit (or at least believe they will benefit) from that outcome.

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        The Heritage Foundation is a society of monarchists. It’s supported by oligarchs who want to be king to push the world towards that agenda, and such oligarchs routinely infuse it with capital.

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        …furthering the divide between right and extreme right has been eerily similar.

        Fixed that for you.

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