Guardian exposes Russian "troll center" where paid trolls spew Putin web propaganda.

[True Blue Door]

22. Oh, so you're going to pretend I didn't say most of what I just said.

I can understand why that would be necessary: You have to keep digressing from the subject - Vladimir Putin's propaganda operation. And I keep bringing it back to that subject. But let's have some fun anyway.

Conservatives in this country in general see a kindred spirit in Vladimir Putin. They condemn his actions with reluctance, and only go along with the sanctions process at all because lucrative deals between Exxon-Mobil and the Russians are exempted. They see his brutality as strength and his lies as legitimate behavior they themselves employ.

They both hate the same people and the same things: Liberals, democrats, human rights activists, gay people, Western Europe, and especially Barack Obama. Putin would be a Neo-Nazi if the German-related symbolism were not inconvenient for Russian politics. His ideology is literally fascist, and that political sector is the main source of his admiration abroad.

But he can't claim to be on the left either, so he can't wrap himself in Red without looking like a joke - so he rests his entire power base on shrill hate propaganda against minorities and foreign countries (the Nazi playbook), while screaming "fascist!" at his own victims as a rhetorical tactic against being labeled what he is.