Its surreal. As a kid when i learned about Nazi Germany id think wow how could anyone go along with that? Now as an adult some of the people i used to trust as a kid are literal brownshirts.
It doesnt even feel real sometimes. And yet here we are.
It's because Americans have been trained to think fascism is spectacular (a myth pushed by fascists themselves) so the mundane nature of everyday fascism doesn't really affect them.
I will always laugh when these the same folks who boil down our ideology to "America bad". Somehow russia has their hooks that deeply in the average American psyche
Redditors are so odd. They can act like they're in a movie and the camera just put them in a close-up before they read their line highlighting the foreign threat. I guess in their head the next thing they thought of was...
"SEAL Team Reddit - gimme a sitrep on Operation Block Russia Disinfo. Repeat - gimme a sitrep on..."
I think the lesson some libs learned doing "critical media analysis " is that propaganda is magic and is most effective when wielded by not very wealthy actors