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ffr

(22,644 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:29 PM Apr 2020

'Open America' protests reek of Russian astroturfing

These ‘liberate/open America’ protests smell really fishy. Kind of reminds a me of the ‘all lives/blue lives matter’ protests of 2016.

For those who need a refresher course, it was uncovered in the Mueller Report, that Russia infiltrates private Facebook and Twitter groups to incite & bolster these protests making them look like ‘grassroots’ uprisings, but they are ideas planted by Russian troll farms. Seems like they are doing it again today.
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In a few Reddit threads, members are positing that these ‘open America’ Facebook groups are all connected. Down the the language the groups use, and their IP addresses seem to match or be hidden or masked by the same sources.

“Let's not stop there. Following their own links: one is from the "Pennsylvania Firearms Association", and the other is from the group "Minnesota Gun Rights" - both with the exact same layout. Both of these domains are registered with the same registrar and were registered on the exact same day at the same time.

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In the last few weeks and months, Russia and the U.S. have played this weird shell game buying, shipping and moving tons of PPE to other countries like China and Italy, as charity. Trump even sent Russia a few tons of PPE for some reason, all while not having enough supplies for our respective professionals here at home.

News outlets like Reuters and CNN have been repeating Putin statements about Russia having only 240 some-odd deaths, and little to no cases. Why did Trump's admin send Russia so much PPE if they ‘have it all so under control?'

Seems really weird to me.
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These lockdown protests are not American ideas. They seemed designed to hurt us as a nation. If we had a better leader more fit for duty, or had put better restrictions on Facebook groups and foreign money supporting this app, these lockdown protests wouldn’t be happening here. Show me where they are happening elsewhere in the world, really? These dumb protests certainly aren’t happening in Russia, lol. - AnchoragePress


"These dumb protests certainly aren’t happening in Russia." No, they are certainly not.

We need to quickly identify Russian trolls online and just immediately ignore what they have to say. If they're negative towards democrats, assume they're troll BOTs
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'Open America' protests reek of Russian astroturfing (Original Post) ffr Apr 2020 OP
They want to kill us ... end of story. Botany Apr 2020 #1
+1 Correct on all counts ffr Apr 2020 #3
While Russia may be pleased with the protests Jake Stern Apr 2020 #2
Let's all take a big steamin' shit on Red Don's astroturf Blue Owl Apr 2020 #4
Tell MSNBC and other MSM to use this term. Then ask the State AGs how about inciting to riot charges Ford_Prefect Apr 2020 #5

Botany

(70,288 posts)
1. They want to kill us ... end of story.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:48 PM
Apr 2020

The only things we have that work are: Stay @ home, social distancing, shut downs, and
testing* for and tracing of the C-19 virus (and not that bullshit of looking for antibodies) but
Trump, Vlad, Kush-turd, Barr, Hannity, Fox, Pence, and so on want to get rid of all those programs.
And why?


* I might be wrong but I think Trump is blocking testing for C-19 because he knows it will show a
much bigger and wide spread problem.

ffr

(22,644 posts)
3. +1 Correct on all counts
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:56 PM
Apr 2020

The 'they' are tRump and company too. They're all in on it. It's simple, they benefit from it, whether directly or indirectly.

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
2. While Russia may be pleased with the protests
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:55 PM
Apr 2020

but this is 100% All-American scam operation.

Someone posted an OP with an article that points this out and shows how these fit the Carr MO to a "T".

Even the GOP and anti-choice groups are calling them out as scammers.

Ford_Prefect

(7,817 posts)
5. Tell MSNBC and other MSM to use this term. Then ask the State AGs how about inciting to riot charges
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 08:45 PM
Apr 2020

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