The overwhelming idiocy of the Reichwing
POSTED BY: reaverfan
UPDATED: Thursday, July 10, 2025 17:58
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Why a DC Public Relations Firm Pretended to Be Bolivian on Facebook
https://cepr.net/why-a-dc-public-relations-firm-pretended-to-be-bolivi
an-on-facebook/
The Americas Blog featured a post last week about the growing wave of election interference and misinformation campaigns sweeping Latin America, especially as a tool of right-wing governments and political movements. As these digital operations have grown in popularity, so has the market for firms to organize them. In particular, new details about the recent Latin American operations of a US public relations firm called CLS Strategies illustrate that Americans are not just on the receiving end of manipulative social media campaigns, but are participants in them as well.
There is a long history of “crisis public relations (PR)” firms taking contracts with foreign governments or opposition movements, lobbying on their behalf or otherwise helping them “improve their image” in Washington. But on September 1st, Facebook announced its removal of “55 Facebook accounts, 42 Pages and 36 Instagram accounts” which were linked to the DC-based CLS Strategies, the first time that such action has been taken against a US PR firm.
According to Facebook, CLS Strategies oversaw coordinated social media campaigns in which sockpuppet accounts, often pretending to be locals, “posted content in support of the political opposition in Venezuela and the interim government in Bolivia, and criticism of Morena,” the party of Mexico’s current President. Their pages, which violated Facebook’s policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign entity,” had been followed by roughly 509,000 Facebook accounts and 43,000 Instagram accounts. $3.6 million was spent on Facebook ads for the campaigns, far more than the roughly $150,000 reportedly spent by Russian operatives on ads on the same platform.
In Bolivia particularly, the impact of this campaign may have been severe. CLS received a contract to “provide strategic counsel to the government of Bolivia” just one month after former President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup. Allegations of electoral fraud levied by the Organization of American States have provided a political justification for the ouster but have been repeatedly shown to be baseless. In the time between the coup and CLS accepting the contract, the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez repeatedly opened fire on protesters, resulting in numerous deaths. During the length of the contract, the far right Áñez government engaged in a stunning array of human rights violations.
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Given the history of the US in that region, I'm mildly surprised that FB would even intervene. They are far right, for the most part.
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GOP Senator Faceplants After Asked if She's Proud of Trump
This rat is jumping the Trump ship. The smart ones will.
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Conservative Scammers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Just Turned Themselves In for Voter Intimidation
The pair orchestrated about 85,000 robocalls designed to suppress voter turnout, especially in Detroit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4aykvg/conservative-scammers-jacob-woh
l-and-jack-burkman-just-turned-themselves-in-for-voter-intimidation?utm_source=reddit.com
Looks like the little shits will do some time.
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Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:It's entirely possible that their criminal records prevent them from voting, but if they can, they're Trump voters.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't see a MAGA hat.
I doubt the two of them could even tie their shoes.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
All Nazis are.
Actually, that's not true.
First off, there are no Nazis in 2020.
But if we're talking about actual card-carrying white supremacist groups, they have come out and said that they're anti-Trumpers, because Trump actually did denounce them back in Charlottesville if you listen to the whole speech he gave instead of the highly selectively edited one that CNN and MSNBC put out that even Kamala Harris lied about in the debate.
The more you know.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Wrong. Same ideology, same evil. It never went away.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
First off, there are no Nazis in 2020.
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True dat. 
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The Republican Party has embraced American fascism
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/republican-party-trump-pence-embrac
ed-history-american-fascism-2020-10
Historians often come ever-so-close to calling American fascism what it is, before backing away and concluding that fascism is something from abroad. Robert Paxton, a preeminant historian of the political philosophy, called the Ku Klux Klan (which was founded by high-ranking former Confederate soldiers) “the earliest phenomenon that can be functionally related to fascism.” Yet somehow we do not own our American fascism.
Building on Paxton in the Washington Post in August, Princeton University historian David Bell acknowledges that Trump and the terrorist groups that support him are nationalists, yes. Anti-democratic, of course. But he says they are not fascists because they have not created a powerful mass movement — not like the movements in Europe between World War I and World War II.
This logic reeks of American exceptionalism. The fascist KKK derived its ideology from a mass, explicitly anti-democratic movement to overthrow the government of the United States -the Confederacy.
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KKK leaves card at family's home in response to yard sign
https://www.wsmv.com/news/kkk-leaves-card-at-familys-home-in-response-
to-yard-sign/article_67b8f7ce-0a90-11eb-a8fc-8347c628f060.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR1zbMBtTP9TZPhmJVx2kVmoxUx-4jZ7QRrjPeYecBlGV-8aFuxW36Druw4
But they're not terrorists...
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Racist trolls hijacked a Zoom town hall to hurl slurs at Connecticut’s first Black congresswoman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/14/jahana-hayes-zoom-rac
ial-slurs/
It's sad that the only thing trumptards have to offer is sheer hate.
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