Konservative US-Influencer, darunter Tim Pool, bezeichnen sich als „Opfer“ einer russischen Desinformationskampagne

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/tim-pool-benny-johnson-influencers-russia-disinformation

49 comments

  2. Victims of the disinformation they themselves are propagating, while receiving funding from Russians? Interesting spin from the Dim Tool.

  3. Imagine MAGA influencers describing themselves as victims – oh, wait, that’s their normal position about anything.

  4. Whether they knew they were funded by Russia to say the things they have or not doesn’t change the fact that Russia liked what they were saying. Liked it enough to funnel millions of dollars to those people to keep saying those things.

    That alone should be wake up call to the people that listen to them.

  6. Victims that were paid to push Russian propaganda and did?! Bullshit.

  8. I love that their defense is essentially, “but we didn’t change our content at all for Russia to find it worthy of paying for.”

    Yeah, that’s not the flex you think it is bro.

  9. Oh, thank goodness they didn’t make any decisions themselves! That totally lets them off the hook, right?

  10. nah, complicit traitors of the Unites States who took money to repeat Russian propeganda meant to destabilize our country

  11. That’s what happens when you are shit for brains.

  12. Absolute monsters that deserve to be tried for treason.  They are enemies of the State and enemies of the People.

  13. These morons act as if what they’ve said on video won’t resurface. Hopefully, no one saved it 🤦‍♂️

  14. Like a moth to a money-shaped flame.

    Don’t bother proof-reading anything or doing basic due diligence, just sign your name and deposit the cash. Someone will be along shortly to pull that string on your back they we want you to talk.

  16. Yeah, I know. And the Nazi officers were also victims of Hitler…/s

  17. The fact that they actively target conservatives is pretty funny.

  18. They still peddled the messages. Traitors to the nation.

  20. I mean, at least he got a new hat. But they’re not paying so well, huh? The black one looked better, I think.

  22. Did he add that this was in no way political and that if given money by China, Iran, fossil fuels, the NRA, etc. he would have obliged just as well?

  23. I never understood how republicans or conservatives became so pro russians.

    For real – comparing to Reagan, they are just communists.

  27. I’ll believe it when they give back the money to the Russian oligarchs.

  29. Victims don’t get paid millions of dollars by Russia.

  31. I feel like this is similar do drug addicts saying ‘you really can’t blame me”

    You may have been coerced and that party may have a lot of blame on their shoulders, but you knew it was wrong all along but wanted that high amd didn’t care who it hurt as long as you got the fix

    And trust me I have all the empathy in the world for drug abusers but the idea that because someone else gave them to you means you hold no blame is a cop out. I certainly did my time for shit like that. Because you are tyring to ignore the problems you yourself caused to chase it.

    I was on crack so robbing that bank really doesn’t count lol

  37. Sounds like a disinformation campaign to cover up a disinformation campaign 🤣 and these people think they are smart enough to have a podcast to “educate” others.

  39. These are the so-called Americans who think they should be leading the direction of this country: morons who can’t admit to their own mistakes no matter how obvious those mistakes may be.

    Coincidentally this is exactly the kind of rhetoric you hear from Republican leadership along with their puppet masters in Moscow. Are these the people you want setting policy for your loved ones?

    Fuck them all.

  40. Interesting. Can someone pay me 100k a week to be a victim too? 

  42. > Pool, a popular podcaster with more than 2 million followers on X, said “should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims.”

    **Useful Idiots**

    I believe the term he is looking for is ‘useful idiots’ not ‘victims’.

  43. Victims??? Nah fam, they misspoke, they meant “payroll”.

  44. So, wait…if I have a platform with millions of followers and I distribute right-wing dis/misinformation to all of them on a daily basis that makes me the victim even my whole agenda s to sew doubt, hatred, fear, and anger?

    Really?

    Has the U.S. completely done away with personal accountability since Trump “won” in 2016?

  45. They aren’t victims of a Russian disinformation campaign, they **are** the Russian disinformation campaign.

  48. They knew they were getting their money from shady sources. Not looking into it further does not diminish their culpability

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