I haven't seen a single Russian on this site since I've been here, I can't be sure, but neither can anybody else. I've seen American and a few Canadian racist trolls and a lot of Trumper socks by regular members too ashamed to post under their regular accounts or socks by antisocial assholes who are repeatedly banned.
I know a lot of people here accuse others of being russian trolls, but at most they are American mouth pieces for Russian disinformation. The republican talking points and Russian disinformation have become almost indistinguishable, so I understand the confusion, they are allies after all. Maybe someone should make a thread of suspected Russian trolls and see how many innocent end up there, all of them, at least of being paid Russians.
The Russians wouldn't waste their time on a pot site with such low participation in an offshoot politics section, they have finite budgets and resources and this would be a waste of time for anybody with an objective and a brain. This site is monitored by humans FFS and the mods read almost all the posts, it is a tough nut to crack and certainly not worth the effort. So stop with the Russian shit, it demonstrates you cannot think clearly or objectively, it's a conspiracy theory for here at least, like Qnon. Sure the Russians attack social media and attempt to implant narratives in our media, they've been doing it for a century, the means are just different now. Most of the socks and trolls here are racist trumpers or neonazi's and most have regular accounts or pirate unused dormant ones, from my perspective, the same guys who carried the tiki torches in Charlottesville and chanted racist shit, some go to rallies too.
The majority of Americans on the site as a whole are white males with a large percentage uneducated (politics attracts a more refined crowd). The vast majority of American white males are racists, so it stands to reason there will be a lot of them here too. The fact that most don't post in the politics section unless they use a sock or pirate an account is telling, even they are deeply ashamed of Trump. The arguments have all become, "there is no difference between them" in nature.
The trolls and socks here are mostly American with a few Canadians who post under their own accounts, no russians and a few english speakers from outside North America.
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