• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    he would be in prison for treason

    Treason against whom? It’s the billionaires’ country, we just live in it.

    Guys like Tim Poole aren’t any more treasonous than Peter Creedy from V for Vendetta. They’re the voice of the establishment not some upstart insurgents rebelling against the people in power.

    Right now, we have a large tranche of white nationalist conservatives who are fully in alignment with Putin’s extremist ideology. He’s tapping into their propaganda network with their blessing.

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      9 days ago

      Yeah but he sold himself to enemy oligarchs and betrayed his class. That’s just rude, you’re only supposed to do one under nationalism.

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        9 days ago

        he sold himself to enemy oligarchs

        They’re not enemies to our oligarchs though. That’s the catch. Plenty of American’s plutocrats see Russia as a model and Putin as an ally.