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Does anyone know why the White House Instagram page is so full of Russian commenters? (Original Post) MrScorpio May 2020 OP
You answered your own question. eom FoxNewsSucks May 2020 #1
Yes, I know. So do you. Squinch May 2020 #2
They're the only ones who will say something nice about him... Wounded Bear May 2020 #3
They say nothing nice about him. n/t Igel May 2020 #9
It's a liberal/Russian plot to discredit Trump gristy May 2020 #4
I'd say these are actually genuine if this is about what I'm thinking about Hav May 2020 #5
I suspect their genuine. Igel May 2020 #12
They'd rather be Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #6
Yes. nt tazkcmo May 2020 #7
Perhaps a decline in US cult members has Russian web brigades pumping disproportionate number posts? Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #8
And when I hear Spanish being spoken I know that they're actually planning drug deals. Igel May 2020 #10
The commenters are paid by sPUTIN, just like he pays tRUMP... abqtommy May 2020 #11

Hav

(5,969 posts)
5. I'd say these are actually genuine if this is about what I'm thinking about
Sat May 16, 2020, 02:56 PM
May 2020

Some are pissed off because of some remarks regarding WW2 that ignored the Russian efforts to defeat the Nazis.
Bots working to get Trump elected wouldn't be so stupid to speak Russian when they want to influence Americans.

Igel

(35,300 posts)
12. I suspect their genuine.
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:33 PM
May 2020

They just don't say what people assume they must say.

If you don't understand something, it's obvious it means whatever you want it to mean.


I've seen a few of these "look at this written by ferners in a funny langwige" posts that all make completely wrong-headed assumptions about what the twits (sorry, "tweets&quot must mean, and since all Russians want to have Trump's baby (since they can't have Poutain's ... sorry, "Putin's&quot they must be throwing carnations and not tomatoes.

I haven't seen a single post (yet) that wasn't staunchly pro-Russian nationalist (or pro USSR) and made room for either Trump or the US.

At first I thought they were people using Google translate, but pretty much they're not. More than a little poetry, which is a pain to translate. Esp. when the structure of the webpage formats normal text that's loose enough in a way that parallels blank verse. It's the old "is this badly formatted verse or badly formatted prose ... shit, can't tell ... wait, is *that* the point being made, it's located in the nexus of prose and poetry and tries to erase the formal difference? Argh. When idiot formatting is indistinguishable from high intellectual commentary, something's seriously effed.)

Igel

(35,300 posts)
10. And when I hear Spanish being spoken I know that they're actually planning drug deals.
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:26 PM
May 2020

Same kind of idea--what I don't know must be directed against me and in praise of my foes.

Paranoia runs deep.

Here are some translations, for just what popped up when I clicked on the link. Off the cuff, not worth proofing. If I type the the same thing ticwe and make mistakes, oh, llew. Fcku ti.

Remember, this is in response to the first post which presumably praises the US. Look for the hymns of praise.

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accordh2. The USSR beat fascism! Admit what's obvious and apologize. Be worthy of your army, mister Trump, otherwise you're not worthy to sweep up after your own soldiers that you're so proud of!


olgabezhinarova Bulat Okudzhava
whose birthday
fell on 9 May, landed at the front
almost a boy,
he fought but considered his experience
once war was done--in verse become
song, in a prose--a remarkable
novella "Be well, scholar!"
(trans. note: Bulat Okudzhava was a '60s-'70s poet-bard like Dylan, but whose poetry was widely published.)

arimprim Glory to the victor nations!
Glory to our forefathers who gave us the Great Victory!!! The USSR!!!

shumskiy.roman stupid picture

elena.gorn66
Yunna Morits
Algorithm
America, Britan, Germany,
Their military experience is unusual.
What is it I see in the fog of history?
Great were their war-makings:
They may start a war, but we end it!..
*
Our heroism, of course,
is repugnant,
When they fight with us it's heartless,
Wild and merciless k
the devourers,
Whose spirit of heroism is unusual:
They may start a war, but we end it!
*
But if we are foolishly open
and illuminate the ocean of trust--
At once they heap tricks on us,
Hellishly devising them,
They may start a war, but we end it!
*
It all repeats and grows thick
with fables
How we so offend everybody,
How we are more horrible than everybody else,
more dangerous than all others!..
We offend them all, those more excellent than us:
They may start a war, but we finish it!


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