Diary of Anne Frank

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They treated politics like a trolling contest.

MAGA never stood a chance. The lowest 50% in terms of liberal arts education and media literacy. All the people who called computer users nerds and dweebs / city slickers on their laptops... all adopted the Apple iPhone / iPad and never stood a chance, we failed to defend the elderly / low-education part of society against the invasion.

"“I am the author, or one of the authors, of the new Russian system,” Vladislav Surkov told us by way of introduction. On this spring day in 2013, he was wearing a white shirt and a leather jacket that was part Joy Division and part 1930s commissar. “My portfolio at the Kremlin and in government has included ideology, media, political parties, religion, modernization, innovation, foreign relations, and ...”—here he pauses and smiles—“modern art.”" - 2014

They treated politics like a trolling contest.

Russia is trolling the entire world via media systems. The largest organized trolling project in modern times, "Operation Matthew 4:19". Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters. Daisy Sindelar, 2014

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"At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare". It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations that then translate into political action." - "Russia and the Menace of Unreality", "How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare". By Peter Pomerantsev (currently working for Johns Hopkins University) September 9, 2014