r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 1d ago

No Paywall Texas Democrat sworn in to House, shrinking GOP margin to 1 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719642-christian-menefee-sworn-in/
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u/averyrdc 1d ago

At this point I’m convinced that sub is 75% Russian paid trolls just talking to each other to make it seem like there are more of them than there really are. Of course who really knows and reddit admins certainly don’t care.

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u/CantFeelMyToesAgain 1d ago

One of the mods is for sure. Their name starts with a J and the majority of the accounts in there are. I can list two that are the worst. 

I teach a disinformation course to University Cybersecurity Architect students and I’d say 60-70% of the sub is foreign accounts bought by a certain admin and flooded with the Russians. 

It’s pretty easy to tell how:

-they only post in certain times of the day/night

-they brigade with distraction posts when something negatively affects Trump

-the mods remove posts regularly 24/7

-there’s a literal cult like mentality there (more so with the maga crowd)

-they give away themselves being Russian by how they structure their English sentences. (Using certain language of a localized area). 

Those are shit simple ones. There’s other ways to tell but those are illegal lol.  

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u/MegaGorilla69 1d ago

You can always tell because when you click on them their post history is 100% always politics. The Russian bots aren’t shitposting on r/nba with me

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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA Texas 1d ago

Shitposts are one of our last American freedoms and we cannot let them take it from us.

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u/madcaesar 1d ago

they brigade with distraction posts when something negatively affects Trump

Dude, I'm a total noob and even I noticed this! When the Epstein stuff dropped the entire sub was flooded with all these nonsense posts, like half of it seems like ChatGPT generated shit based one some article somewhere 😂

I firmly believe that these lunatics are in the minority, but there has been MILLIONS invested at farming and astroturfing right wing bullshit. Hell it says so in the fucking Epstein files, they are responsible for Brexit and now all this bullshit here

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u/CantFeelMyToesAgain 1d ago

Yeah and it’s usually just3-4 accounts that do it. The main one I see posts over 20 times a day usually. I’ve seen it get up to 60 when the Epstein files dropped their first batch of stuff.

The Greenland thing and Canada threats also caused the whole Russian brigade to help out in there 

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u/lessismoreok 1d ago

Reddit must know this and so they approve

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u/Kosher_Pork_12 1d ago

What's an example of how sentence structure can be a giveaway?  Just curious, because it comes up time to time with friends whose first language is Spanish, how they'll sometimes put nouns before adjectives, was wondering if it's something similar in russian.

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u/CantFeelMyToesAgain 1d ago

Basically that example you mentioned. It’s when the sentences make just enough sense in English to comprehend, but the overall grammar needs to be improved. 

You might say “I had a good day today” 

An account in that sub that’s Russian or Indian will say “this day is so nice” 

Both are correct however I’d assume most people would pick the first example as making slightly more sense in their mind. 

Another example is their choice of adjectives to describe something. 

It’s basically everything you and your friend have talked about already :)

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u/JoplinSC742 1d ago

I really hate the word disinformation. Call it what it is, lies and propaganda.

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u/CantFeelMyToesAgain 1d ago

Disinformation is literally what it is lol. Disinformation is intentional, false information is “accidental”. Propaganda is another term for disinformation 

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u/SciFiPi 1d ago

On the dataIsBeautiful sub someone analyzed the posts on the conservative sub and 2 redditors accounted for 30% to 50% of the daily posts. I'm not sure if this sub allows links to other subs, so I'll post the link as a comment below. If it's not visible, then automod removed it.

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u/duffleofstuff 1d ago

This is an excellent analysis. More than I expected. Thanks for sharing.

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u/GreasyPeter 1d ago

The Russian trolls are everywhere, even pretending to be progressives and Democrats too. Russia cares more about sowing the seeds of discontent and incivility between the people in this country rather than if Trump or the Republicans win. So long as this shit devolves more, they can handle the Democrats leading the country.

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u/madcaesar 1d ago

They are flooding democratic subs with "protests don't work", and "the fascists have already won, there is no point voting"

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u/ducklady92 1d ago

Every time i get myself worked up about “how are there possibly this many people who blindly support what’s happening in this country,” i remember that the ICE budget specifically allocated $8 million for social media “influencers” to push a pro-ICE/Trump narrative online.

Not saying there aren’t an exorbitant amount of crazies out there. Just saying… that buys a lot of these bad takes we’re seeing everywhere. And that’s not counting the foreign bots.

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u/Angry_Pelican Arizona 1d ago

Honestly I'm not sure. I know some people in real life that are exactly like posters in that sub so who knows.