I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.
Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.
Yet another reason to support Ukraine, maybe they’ll knock out Moscow’s power more often.
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I’m struggling to see how your comment is a response to the one you replied to? But anyway yes, moderators across many platforms can be quite egregious.
Though at some point, when the same thing happens many times with many different people, one must consider that they may possibly be the problem.
Anyway, you must have done something pretty bad to be banned from the Manchester United community haha, I can’t imagine they’re a strict bunch xD And the conversation would only be about football, after all.
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Been there
ok grandpa, let’s get you to bed. 😆
Maybe they get banned for going off topic too often
I’ve been banned from plenty of subreddits and things. Generally it involves going into a circlejerk and telling them something they don’t want to hear.
r/conservative, r/antivax, r/Tesla, either of AI or anti AI, whatever.
It’s one of a conservatives best qualities…being a snowflake. Boy do they like to whine and cry !
Virtually every major outlet for the right wing is, in some way shape or form, controlled by fascist foreign actors. Especially Russia.
All the dumb-fuck faux leftists supporting Russia over Ukraine, claiming Ukraine has a major Nazi problem, need to open their fucking eyes and see Russia is the biggest exporter of Nazism world wide.
the best part of all of it…is the reveal twitter had a couple weeks ago, where they put access location and registration location as publicly visible…for all of 5 minutes, revealing the fact that most big head conservative twitter accounts are foreign controlled psyop/propaganda outlets.
Crazy how the right wing just absolutely ignores that 98% of all the big totally patriotic american twitter accounts telling them what to do and how to feel come from russia, belarus, etc etc.
They hate the libs so much they’d prefer to get bent over by our enemies as long as the libs get owned.
Interesting. Which accounts were these at the time of reveal?
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-accounts-based-outside-us-exposed-11097693
heres some of them, I’m pretty sure there was more.
Huh, none of those accounts listed were in Russia, and some were in Germany and in “Eastern European country not in the EU”
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So everything is evidence that it’s Russia, both when the accounts are inside and outside Russia. Every claim is non-falsifiable and everything can be attributed to the evil Easterners.
If we invade Venezuela or even continue to steal oil tankers, is argue we’re at least the same of level fascism as Russia. Prageru is insane I’ve heard that some schools have prageru in the classrooms. It’s hard to imagine that we aren’t on the same path as Putin was. We could elect the coolest socialist women president ever and the supreme Court would still be there to prevent any progressive legislature. We suck
Trump is literally the most envious assholes on the planet. He’s friends with the Saudis, and he wants what they have, which is oil. Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserve on the planet.
We will be going to war with Venezuela.
Russia’s influence would be evident even if there weren’t so much evidence of the interference and troll farm employees speaking out. Just look at the Russian anti-trans laws and compare them to Trump’s policies.
Just look at the Russian anti-trans laws and compare them to Trump’s policies.
Hate to bring it to you, but the evil doesn’t have to have a single source. Authoritarian regimes all across the world during the entirety of recent history have been banning LGBTQ+. Autocrats are obsessed with non conforming sex and identities
It’s not about the fact of cracking down on minorities, but about the specific language used, specific policies introduced and changes made. Think of any part of Trump’s crackdown on trans rights and you’ll find direct equivalents to it in Putin’s recent policies that preceded it. There are many ways to be transphobic, but they land on the same themes and talking points pushed by the right-wing figures who take Russian money.
Are you suggesting transphobia in the west is because Russia is ordering western leaders to pass anti-trans laws?
Or did you just mean America, and TERF island gets its transphobia from a different source?
In this instance, I’m talking specifically about Trump, but Russia’s influence on Europe is also undeniable, though not always as crystal clear. They have their own people in the European parliaments and intelligence from the likes of Schröder, in addition to paying the likes of Le Pen, running the troll factories, creating fake news, and so forth.
I think it’s rarely done as a direct order. More often than not, it’s a combination of all those things, best illustrated by when the Russian government and its trolls paid for Facebook ads and pretended to be American activists, getting people inside America out to protest for both guns rights and against them, as well as for BLM and for the likes of Trump. They’ve done the same in Africa and other regions. One of the goals is to create division not only to weaken but also to use domestically, as Putin’s justification for his “strong hand” leadership has often been to point at the “chaotic” and “soulless” West and ask if the population wants the same in Russia.
Russia is capitalist, fascist and an aggressor state, yet it’s loved by some communists. It makes no sense.
Because those aren’t actual communists, they’re tankies.
Tabkies don’t have any actual principles, let alone any beliefs whatsoever.
Their beliefs are solely anti-West and that is it. It doesn’t matter what contradictions or outright lies they must embrace. As long as the narrative is anti-West, they’re 100% on board.
The title is misleading at best. I’m sure 30-50% of the content are bots, but the link to Moscow is… let’s say tenuous. There is no good source for a blackout in Moscow, only in a minor city (100k inhabitants) of the Moscow area called Zhukovsky according to one of the comments in the post. Russia is a country with 150 million inhabitants, searching for blackouts anywhere in the country on one event of reduced bot activity isn’t real science, and doesn’t point to any kind of causation.
Further down in the post, if you read it, you can even see OP was using problematic methodology and had to point to another post. You’re literally just going by the words of a random reddit user at this point. This is conspiracy theory level shit, guys, you can do better than this.
Edit: link to the corrected reddit post by the same user. Look at the fifth graph provided. Amazing that 350 people upvoted this conspiracy shit, you guys have a serious problem over at .world
Edit 2: @BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip do you have anything to reply at all to this? Don’t you think your post is disinformation, or at least the title?
I tried improving it by updating the title and description. Even looking at the corrected image we still see disruptions in posting on that day and OP asked a question: why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?
why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?
One of the reddit comments has proposed a pretty simple explanation: the two profiles are the same person. Just one person’s posting habits were disrupted.
why did they both happen to stop on that day
They were the Best Man at their cousin’s wedding in Cleveland? Use your imagination. There are infinite possibilities.
You compare random events, you receive unstructured results
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
But really, we have to have something else besides this particular shutdown and the ongoing Russian disinformation campaign (which is indeed real).
You can be honest and say you have an agenda posting this because of your political opinions, but it is disinformation. Without any link to Russia other than a localized blackout in a minor city in the Moscow region (not part of Moscow, as your post implies, but Moscow Oblast), you could equally make the guess that the posters/bots were on holidays because of Halloween/Día de Muertos and didn’t make posts because of expected low engagement.
The fact that you’re trying to push a link between the two a-priori unrelated events, even if you frame it under “I’m just asking questions”, has a deliberate attempt, and my worry is not exclusively with you as a single individual doing this, but the 500 conspiracy-brained upvotes taking this shit and nothingburger to the frontpage.
to explain my downvote
You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others. That kind of rhetoric got this republic to this point in the first place.
Off topic, but I want to say that I appreciate you explaining your downvote. Some of the downvotes on here seem entirely senseless and definitely make one wonder, “Why would anyone downvote that?” When people explain their reasoning, not only are they contributing to Lemmy in a more constructive way, but it helps other commenters gain perspective. Thank you for adding your thoughts.
You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others.
“Russians control Reddit! I demand you take my assertion in good faith and be nice to me.”
Okay buddy.
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When people make disinformation campaigns, whether it was their intention or not, I will respond accordingly
“When people make campaigns that don’t match my agenda, I will respond accordingly”
FTFY
Are you seriously defending the contents of this post?
Are you seriously defending Russia?
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Until the rubles stop coming, hey Boris?
Russia is simultaneously a shitty gas station about to collapse and just a few sanctions away, and an all-powerful entity dominating US and EU politics. Everyone who contradicts this is paid for by the state.
i think the US education system should teach about necrophilia laws so people stop sucking Joseph McCarthy’s dick
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You can be honest and say you have an agenda
Cool, now you go.
My agenda is socialism, as you can see directly on my username. I’m not hiding anything. Blaming the far right autoctonous to Europe and the USA on foreigners is not realistic analysis, and so won’t reach realistic results. “Let’s close Russian disinformation” good, let’s also close western disinformation, which is vastly more prevalent and, you know, LEGAL.
Looking at your history you seem to be a bit of a Russia’s defender.
Are you a Russian bot yourself? Do you feel called out? You seem very defensive. Projecting much?
No, he doesn’t seem to be a Russian defender. The only post I’ve found was on whether it’s ok to call Russians orcs, where he was strongly against it. Also commas in their messages are a bit sus, so it might be that their first language is Russian.
My first language is Spanish
Хорошо. Работаем, товарищ!
Qué pena me da la comida de cabeza que os han hecho con la mierda de que Rusia está detrás de todo… Pero bueno, supongo que es más fácil echarle la culpa del fascismo en la UE y en EEUU a “los malvados judeobolchebiques… digo rusos” que asumir que nuestros gobiernos están llenos de fascistas.
IDK man, I’m on your side here
You seriously don’t think there’s anything wrong with 700 people upvoting this dogshit conspiracy theory misinformation? Are you gonna pretend it’s alrighty and dandy because “it’s le evil Ruzzians at work again”?
“RuSsIaNs ArE tHe GoOd GuYs. ItS tHe NaTO fAuLt tHeY hAd To iNvADe Ukraine.”
Literal maga behaviour, I expected better from people who fled reddit
you can take the redditor out of reddit etc
You’re literally just going by the words of a random reddit user at this point.
You’re describing 90%1 of all internet discussion.
1 no actual sources available
If you said Russians are the reason you’re always missing one sock in your dryer, half of Reddit would agree.
Hmm. Sounds like something a Russian would say.
We already know what YOU are, Yuri.
You’re literally one of the biggest Russian simps on this platform, you gladly suck, swallow, and regurgitate Russian propaganda daily.
There’s a ZERO percent chance that someone as hollow as you cares about accuracy. You’re just mad that this post makes Russia look bad.
Buddy, I’m a communist. I hate the Putin regime. You haven’t talked about this in .world at all, but last week 3 communists in Russia were trialed and condemned to 12 years in jail for reading Lenin, but those are commies so you and our mass media don’t give a fuck. I have personal loved ones suffering the results of the government and the sanctions. So don’t fucking tell me I’m a Russian simp.
The thing is, unlike you, I don’t blame every cancer of the cancerous west on a foreign nation. If there had been this platform 20 years ago and you and I had been in it, you’d be calling me a Hussein simp for complaining that there’s no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. If it were 35 years ago, you’d be calling me a Kuwait simp for requesting caution when listening to Nayirah’s testimony. And now it is 2025 and you call me a Russian simp because I’m a European citizen more concerned with our own fascist politicians who wants good diplomatic and economic relations with Russia and who believes that most of the problems between Europe and Russia come from the US (successful) attempts to antagonize the country, because believe it or not, history did not begin in February 2022.
Aww shucks, poor Putin’s bot spinning sob stories to make people feel sowwy for the poor bot. Great tactic if you weren’t already exposed as Russia’s lover and defender.
I have personal loved ones suffering the results of the government and the sanctions.
…
because believe it or not, history did not begin in February 2022.Exactly, Russia’s aggression didn’t start in 2022 and I have generations of loved ones that suffered from Russia’s aggression. So STFU Ruski.
“Everyone who doesn’t agree with me must be paid by Putin” is one great way to absolve yourself of any accountability
I don’t give a fuck if anyone pays you or not. You are spreading Russian propaganda and defending this abhorrent country. I don’t know if you are just stupid, brainwashed, or Putin’s lackey bot, or all of the above. But I do know you are a Russian simp talking out of his ass.
This piece of misinformation has become the most upvoted post on the frontpage of the biggest Lemmy instance, this is my problem
There are not so many things I dislike more than defending Putin’s Russia, but you’re right.
The window is too tiny to draw any sensible conclusions, even the Reddit OP admits that. Even more, the shutdown in Zhukovsky was from 11pm to 1.30 am:
The whole narrative would’ve been stronger if there was a bot farm reported in Zhukovsky independently
Hmmm…Power must be on in Moscow at the moment.
Hopefully, Ukraine will correct that error soon.
Oh no, I contradicted your baseless conspiracy theory, I definitely must be paid for by all-powerful and simultaneously about to collapse Ruzzia!
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It’s direct from the Russian playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_generation_warfare
This explains why they sent a bunch of rust bucket soviet tanks into ukraine. It seemed to have the opposite effect when they got blown up though. This feels like a deeply risky strategy with the risk being a mix of blowback and rallying your enemies.
The plan doesn’t account for one universal law: Russians always lie and steal.
In this case the people in charge of psyops in Ukraine pocketed the budget and just sent “yep, all good” reports upstream.
On the other hand, things are working really well on social media. Go on any TikTok video about the Ukraine war or about EU internal politics and within 1-2 minutes you have people arguing with VERY specific talking points and have 50+ likes.
And you can see when they escalate the basic talking points to Tier 2 Arguers, I had one guy claiming to be Irish know very very very specific things about some EU investigation that happened in Ukraine around 2012. Stuff that NOBODY cares about unless you’re a hardcore Russia fan, a Russian disinfo bot or in a very specific place on the spectrum.
blowback and rallying your enemies.
imo exactly what’s happened with russia… pre-full-scale invasion nobody gave a shit about russia… even crimea tbh people were mostly indifferent
now? i dont know anyone real that doesn’t think the whole country can go to hell, and that russia always lies
the standard reaction to hearing about undersea cables being cut is: fuck russia; we should bomb their fucking ships those absolute cunts - even if we have no idea if it’s russia or not!
win or lose in ukraine, russia has lost so much - at least for the short-term
It’s probably happeneing here on Lemmy, too. Granted, I can be abrasive, but the lovely mods here delete my posts almost every time I engage with a fucking stinking Yuri bot.
It’s definitely happening. /c/conservative on most instances is just farmed posts.
not on lemmy.world AND I did my part.
https://lemmy.world/post/33388933?scrollToComments=true
I also made two of the bots delete their accounts
It’s worse here. At least r/conservative is just bots. There are plenty of idiots here who proudly spew Russian propaganda
I think it’s here, but the tactics are a little different.
What I’m seeing are political posts that stand a good chance of rallying people, uniting a front of some kind, and yielding fruit that could very well be positive action.
Trolls/state-actors/whoever see this and sow dissent and start pointless arguments, tying up over 50% of the visible space for discussion under the post. These cats are incredibly good at crafting troll-bait and it shows: the chaos crowds out everything good going on. And this happens every, single, time. It’s hard to see this and not think that it’s orchestrated somehow.
Also, if you keep a tally of the flavor of troll-bait being put out there, patterns emerge. Nudging people to start a US civil war is a very common one.
I think all mods would have to do is disallow changes of topic under threads, forcing them out to the top-level. That may cure any toxic piggybacking, letting the trollbait languish further down the page or get down-voted appropriately.
Sorry, what do you mean by “actual conservatives”?
Maybe that wasn’t the best word but if someone is MAGA they’re in general not very principled because they just accept whatever Trump does even when it goes against what past prominent conservatives did or said.
For example conservatives at-least said for a long time they were strong supporters of free speech but as soon as Trump started attacking free speech a lot of them fell in line. But for example maybe some on r/conservative would say I thought we supported free speech and then the posts would get deleted leaving only those in the MAGA cult left.
Basically the likes of George Will, Liz Cheney, and other NeverTrump republicans.
They’ve been driven from any influence within the GOP, but any outsider would call them conservative.
And now Nick Fuentes is trying to elbow his way in. Hard to believe this is all really happening in my life time.
Have you seen his Piers Morgan interview? What. The. Fuck
Why is it anyone’s business if he’s a virgin or not?
That was painful to watch for many, many reasons. The commentary, the interview questions, and of course the answers.
Do yourself a favor. If you already know Fuentes is a self-avowed Nazi, don’t give that video attention.
Did you miss the part where he says women should have the right to vote?! His opinions on other people not having any rights certainly make his life choices fair game. He should be ridiculed. But yes, Piers Morgan is douchenozzle
Principled supporters of things like freedom of speech are called “liberals.”
MAGAs, on the other hand, are the truest conservatives we’ve seen since the NAZIs.
Monarchy/fascism/oppression/maintaining of hierarchy has always been what conservatism has been about. Noises to the contrary have always been lies to hoodwink their marks.
MAGAs, on the other hand, are the truest conservatives we’ve seen since the NAZIs.
Black Hundreds predated the Nazis as well.
It was perfect wording. You are spot on.
There’s no such thing as a “principled” conservative. Conservativism is the idea that nothing should change, except the things that the conservative thinks need to change. It is, without exception, based on the self-interest of the conservative determining their own positions. It’s narcissism dressed in stoic nationalism wielding ignorance and fueled by anger.
That’s not what conservatism is. Obviously, it’s a relative term, but it still describes a concrete ideology in each society it’s in. By your logic progressives want to literally have every thing to progress, but that’s clearly not what the ideology behind it stands for.
Bullshit. Progressivism is based on the principles of freedom, justice, equality, and empathy. A progressive believes in their principles even when they run counter to their own self interest. A conservative, invariably, will simply choose principles that are aligned with their own self interest. Twas always thus, and forever shall be.
Read what I said again, you missed the point
I didn’t miss shit. Your point is wrong. There is no underlying conservative ideology. It does not exist. Each iteration of conservatives makes up their own values and then acts like those are immovable facts. It’s like drawing a circle around wherever you happen to be standing and then declaring everything within it the Kingdom of Divine Righteous People. There are no examples of conservatives who have not done this. That’s not ideology, that’s narcissism.
There’s all sorts of conservative “adjacents” and factions, like various sects of libertarians, finance-oriented fiscal conservatives, hawks with a more oldschool view of foreign policy, anti-corporate small business owners, farmers, some hackers, small town preachers, “Hank Hill” suburban moderates, all sorts of folks.
From my perspective in Texas, it* used* to be quite diverse. Then all of a sudden, Trump blocked out the sun, megachurches took over, and social media/Fox News really bombarded otherwise divided factions (including my family) with a lot of unified propaganda.
Don’t get me wrong; I have seen some shit you wouldn’t believe down here, and heard plenty of talk radio that makes my skin crawl. MAGA was here before Trump claimed it. But “conservative” definitely used to be a much broader term than MAGA.
…but clearly these groups are hardly represented anymore.
If OP’s post is true, Russia is very much interested in fostering “MAGA style” Republican unity, so naturally they’re going to encourage this consolidation and crowd out the factions on Reddit.
The way “Conservative” is used in America is different to other countries. Usually its an economic position, but in America its bound up with views on gun control, immigration, abortion, and pro corporate anti union power.
I would assume, not Russians.
Adam Kinzinger?
Dude it’s such a clown show in there. I don’t think normal people even fuck with that sub anymore. The conservatives I’ve known are nothing like that. I keep going back just to tip more controversial and divisive comments towards the top tho so maybe I’m the problem
I don’t think normal people even fuck with that sub anymore.
My dude, “normal people” don’t fuck with anything the right does anymore.
All right-wingers are lead-brained troglodytes, and being right wing is fundamentally a personality and/or intellectual disorder.
I second the personality disorder thing. For me, the past few years, the right wingers have been exactly the people I expected. The worst of the worst. The meanest of the mean. The greediest of the greedy. Not once did a nice person turn out to be right-wing.
I remember when Russia cut itself off from the internet for like 3 days, and virtually every social media site I frequented was a lot calmer and nicer for those days. It was surreal seeing how fucking much of the internet is just Russia.
the mods are well known russian shills, or russian backed mods. thats why they silence even conservatives that are critical of trump.
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No. MAGAts are just loud af and get the most attention. If more people just showed up to vote for Kamala instead of protest due to Israel (which is now much worse off due to Trump), he would have lost then, and his popularity is dropping everyday even among conservatives.
EDIT: I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night and misread this as “Aren’t most American[s] conservative these days [and are] Russian agents…”. Leaving original comment intact, though there’s a fair amount if Russian interference in both elections which greatly benefitted Trump both times. I do believe the voices of MAGAts are greatly amplified thanks due to the Russian bots and, well, Twump. Sorry for the confusion I caused.
“Useful Idiot” is the term Russia uses for them
Surprising to nobody who isn’t a conservative.
reminds me of in 2017 and 2022 when reddit did a big prune of identified russian bot accounts and people on r/conservative were ponderous about why it had gotten so quiet
Mmm I wonder what that means 🤔
Conservative_memes is full of indians posting about American politics. You used to be able to see posting history until reddit wanted to protect the spammers
Maybe 30% - 50% of content on any subreddit is bots / shills?
Dead internet theory and all that.
It certainly seems like the same old comments over and over on reddit these days…
50% actually, its growing i suspect.
Obviously by agitprop, Putin wants to be the first to win the new Cold War without even firing a single shot.
It may be working in the short term but in the medium term MAGA may be imploding as real people get their faces eaten by leopards and become disillusioned with the movement.
Also it’s a cult of personality meaning it requires active maintenance by the leader, meanwhile Trump is actively melting and may not even have enough of a personality to count eventually.
Reminds me of an old soviet joke:
Q: Now that Stalin has died, what happened to his cult of personality?
A: The personality has died, that is true, but the cult lives on.While that may be true there is a near universal fact I have observed with cults. When the original leader dies they bleed manpower well that or they fracture like a khaganate, though that can be stopped with sufficiently competent successors, I greatly doubt anyone can hold this particular mess together.
I think Trump’s main leverage was the Epstein files and the people that thought they would be “exposed” for associating with him. Trump learned from Roy Cohn (there’s someone to read up on… the guy was an absolute POS) to lean into people that were a bit dirty and use their shame (something Trump has almost none of) to control them. Couch Fucker Vance has squat and if Trump croaks or falls totally apart, the House and Senate are going to eat him alive once he assumes the Presidency…
That doesn’t mean much. It just means the next snake oil salesman that appeals to their base emotions will win their dumb hearts.
Regular, factual and continued education is the only way out of this mess. Note the present dismantlement of said Department.
All those snake oil salesmen are looking ning up for the 2028 primary, and it’s going to be entertaining.
Trump will endorse his son, so that he can win, Trump can be Chief of Staff, and they’ll hire a woman to be assistant Chief of Staff, and make her do all the work, and fetch coffee. If he wins, Trump will sit at the Resolute desk, and Jr will sit at a card table with a folding chair. Every day will be bring your senile father to work day.
Vance will have Usha deported, and marry Erika Kirk, who will divorce him when he flames out for president, after getting caught with a rentboy, pissing off his Sugar Daddy Peter Theil, who will break up with him, and then spend a billion bucks destroying his life.
Rubio will stagger around wide-eyed and clueless as usual.
MTG will make all of her appearances dressed like a Star Spangled Rodeo Clown.
And then there will be 20 other MAGA narcissists in line, whose candidacies will all fall apart one by one, as their campaigns fall apart when various scandals come to light.
And the Dems will put up several worthy challengers, several terrible candidates, pick the worst one, and lose.
A bomb only explodes for a few miliseconds. The problem is the damage it does persists.
This case it’s a dirty bomb.
China’s way ahead.
I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn’t like on the Internet disappeared
Nice try Xi.
Indeed. They have our infrastructure by the balls. As soon as we try and stop them from taking Taiwan, if that even happens, we will stop having water power and gas in short order.
After 8 hours without water hospitals stop working. Think about that for a minute.
Wait what
In what way does China control the infrastructure? That’s concerning
Is it like, they make the software and can killswitch it?
So, water and power infrastructure use shitty old industrial control systems, are most if not all are on the Internet, run at a financial deficit, and are generally not well maintained. They don’t have the time, funding, manpower or knowledge to decrease their attack surface nor to operate manually rather than via the junk ICS they’re using.
They (volt typhoon) practiced in mennasotas infrastructure and iirc sat in there 300 days and they had full control. They’re using several novel attack vectors, have as of August, built a presence in police, fire, hospital, electric, power, and gas infrastructure.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-038a
https://cybersecuritynews.com/amazon-catches-north-korean-it-worker/
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-343a
The gun is loaded. They’re still working for more complete control. The timeline is 2027ish, or whenever China attacks Taiwan and the US steps up.
The attack is expected to be everywhere at once, that way neighboring towns won’t be able to give aid because emergency services will be overwhelmed. Mutual aid agreements will fall apart.
Did you know that hospitals stop functioning entirely when water is cut for 8h? A hospital COULD function with water trucks, but not in the case of concurrent attacks.
CISA lost 1000 of it 3300 staff, and they were overtaxed before.
It’s bad. Get a lifestraw or Sawyer mini.
I’ve not even touched on salt typhoons pwnage of telecom and network infrastructure.
Get a Meshtastic radio and a couple handhelds. Baofeng makes very approachable stuff.
The US military is self sufficient, but neither they nor the nat’l guard are equipped to help with this kind of attack.
I can’t really share much more right now but there are plenty of reputable sources available online for all this. Just don’t start googling before bed. Do yourself a favor.
Would this be dangerous for China to do? It IS a war crime to deprive most of a nation of water.
But would China actually be in real danger, or would the UN just yell at them and do nothing?? Or would there be a war against China?
That’s a real good question, one to which I don’t have an answer.
It seems to me like there would be a great deal of risk for them to do that.
But then, why are they making so much effort to position themselves to shut off water, power, and gas?
Maybe they’ll use it as a prelude to an outright attack? It’s hard to know for sure. This seems like at least part of their motivation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/xi-and-putin-s-taiwan-invasion-files-leaked-full-scale-2027-plan-confirmed/vi-AA1SB2cc
But surely they have some secrets.
That does make me wonder what China’s outcome of that would be. At this point, the US has alienated so many allies, I have to wonder if we’d still have their full backing or if it would be conditional on tariffs.
Edit: Just saw this in a chat: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3337652/chinese-military-simulated-battles-near-mexico-cuba-and-taiwan-cctv-report-shows
The US is in a precarious international situation here
Some countries would side with the US, and some would oppose China but not side with the US
Removing the conservatives who dissent might backfire on them bc they might end up thinking they’re not considered “conservative” anymore and find other ppl to hang out with. And the reddit shillbot page will just be talking to itself. One can hope
Honestly, it probably is 70% bots and illegitimate posters at this point. Doesn’t matter though, if they still browse r/conservative while banned they’re getting fed from the teet of the outrage machine.
That’s depressing
