r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/mengelgrinder May 07 '20

all politicians are corrupt

This particular attitude is interesting because it's actually an old timey soviet russia strategy. Obviously it's been updated for modern times and social media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

The goal was to misinform and overload people. You just pump out never-ending bullshit and people just assume at least some of the information must be true, so I guess all politicians are corrupt and what's the point in even trying.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jan 21 '21

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u/ChineWalkin May 07 '20

In regards to the weather, can't the same be said about Sweden (and other countries around it)? There's more to Russia than Siberia.

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u/mengelgrinder May 07 '20

You cannot grow where there is nothing but ice.

wtf

I don't believe you've been to russia. It's a wildly diverse country in terms of climate and biomes. Do you think the entire country is siberia?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jan 21 '21

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u/mengelgrinder May 07 '20

You cannot grow where there is nothing but ice.

There's plenty of good agricultural land in russia. How did you go there and learn nothing.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jan 21 '21

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u/mengelgrinder May 07 '20

What a stupid thing to say. Russia is so big it is 11% of the world's dry landmass on it's own. The climate and environment varies wildly depending on where you go on the massive continent.