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4. Just like the Russian trolls and bots pushed the NFL player kneeling meme

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 02:11 PM

Mar 2018

Divide and conquer .... right out of the KGB/FSP/Putin playbook

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmaker-russian-trolls-trying-to-sow-discord-in-nfl-kneeling-debate/2017/09/27/5f46dce0-a3b0-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.84aa31eb33aa

Trump even tweeted a link to a Russian server that was hosting something like
"Stand for the Flag" or "Stand for the Troops."

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Anybody think that the faked video of Emma Gonzales ripping up the Constitution was made in Russia [View all] Botany Mar 2018 OP

Probably, either way it is exactly what we would expect from trumpers, GOP, etc. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1

Same old M.O. dalton99a Mar 2018 #2

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