The AfD has failed to win three run-offs for mayor in major cities in Germany’s west, despite other gains. Meanwhile, the German foreign minister is to visit Poland as tensions grow over Russia’s aggression.

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    Oh dear, Russia RussiaaAAA RUSSSSIAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Do people like you see anything that isn’t caused by Russia? The “Putinist axis”, what a wild imagination. Hey on the plus side you’re never bored I guess.

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      It’s a well-documented fact that there is a decades-long large scale state-sponsored effort of propagandists in St. Petersburg using bots and tens of thousands of fake accounts to push far-right propaganda narratives online which are aimed squarely at dividing western societies. They are on every platform, posing as concerned citizens, creating the illusion of a silent majority fed up with wokism or whatever the boogeyman is today. They’ve scored massive wins with their support for Brexit and Trump, and have only doubled down on this strategy since.

      So the question is, are you denying this or pretending it doesn’t matter?

      I am obviously not saying it’s all Russia and things would be fine otherwise, so don’t even go there.

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        What is the quantity of information posted every day to the internet, what quantity of information does it take for one person to just go from one day to the next to shoot up the neighborhood? And how do you know beforehand? Because all this bot Russia conspiracy stuff is all ergo hoc propter hoc stuff.

        If there existed such images or text, why didn’t Hillary use this amazing technology to get people to vote for her?

        It’s always some shadowy, unproven, generic bad guy stuff, that somehow never ever applies to your own team.

        It’s like no matter what happens, it’s all Russia. One day they’re so powerful they can control the thoughts of an entirely peaceful and uniformly happy and rich country like the USA (insert villain laugh with Eastern European accent, twirling mustache), the next day they’re all incompetent drunks with a weak military that uses a single CPU they stole from a washing machine. Oh and backwards technology, except for their brain beams.

        You also remind me of all these “sky is falling” types when they find out I run Windows 7. I ask for specific, actionable evidence that my machine is vulnerable, and it’s always just circular arguments or it happened to a friend of mine.

        “I am obviously not saying it’s all Russia and things would be fine otherwise, so don’t even go there.”

        So don’t go to reality? I see. You’re just as bad as any loony 9/11 jet fuel conspiracy nutter, it’s your identity.

        RUSSIAN MEMES CAN’T MELT AMERICAN BRAINS!!!