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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImportant ? about the Trump snuff video. From Russia w/love?
Was it made in or for Russia/Ukraine because it sure looks like "they" are trying to stir up
divisions in America and whip up his deplorable base.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Oh, just figured it out.
I'd say maybe.
JHB
(37,158 posts)It's not entirely clear whether TheGeekzTeam is one person or multiple people, though in some internet comments the team has left some autobiographical details hinting that one person is behind the account. A request for comment sent via email was not immediately returned.
By August of 2019, fully established as a staple in the pro-Trump meme-making community, TheGeekzTeam joined Memeworld, an exclusive community of pro-Trump digital creators. Memeworld was created by a person who goes by the online handle Carpe Donktum, a Kansas-based video editor who made similar albeit nonviolent mashups that had been tweeted from Trumps account over the last year.
Donktum, who has become a household name in pro-Trump circles online, met with the president in The White House and was invited to the administrations social media summit in July.
IIRC, "carpe donktum" is (allegedly) Latin for "seize the ass".
Botany
(70,490 posts)Although I only watched it once.
Polybius
(15,385 posts)There are lots of nuts right here that could have made it.
Botany
(70,490 posts)But then again I might be wrong.
JHB
(37,158 posts)...for American wingnuts. There was a lot of imagery there which looked like it came from European (especially eastern European) sources (e.g., a 2-headed eagle symbol). It's the sort of stuff that wouldn't have been the "go to" imagery for American wingnuts (though alt-right groups on both continents may have had enough cross-fertilization to account for it, maybe).
The stuff edited into the Kingsman-derived video is all the stuff of domestic wingnut obsessions: US politicians, celebrities, mostly-US-based media plus a couple of their love-to-hate foreign outlets (e.g., al Jazeera).
There were no shout-outs to European groups, as far as I could tell. No symbols of European RW parties, no European pols among the victims, no NGOs, no European media for which most Americans would say "who?". It was all for US-domestic consumption. It was a wet-dream of blowing away The Enemy Within. It's certainly possible Russkies had a hand in it, but the sensibilities are pure triple-distilled American Bile.
There's nothing "Russian" about the style of editing, though. Here's a video from March 2016 using the same techniques, and it wasn't exactly on the Russian side.