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wiseowise • today at 1:04 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Would it please you if “useful idiot” would be used over bot when someone regurgitates Russian metodichkas?


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p-e-w • today at 2:51 PM

No matter what ideology you follow, you are someone’s useful idiot, so this term is meaningless.

Russia is no more (and no less) my enemy than the US and the EU are. And as far as spreading propaganda goes, Russia is downright mediocre compared to the latter two.

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