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[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So, a part of me immediately went "who is this idiot" and it turns out that after 11 years of writing for the foreign policy section of BILD, the shittiest and most reactionary news outlet of the way too many shitty and reactionary news outlets of the Axel Springer publishing house, Julian Röpcke recently switched to a new career track.

Instead of being a jingoistic mouthpiece for the most unwavering bastion of right wing zionism and imperial lackeydom in Germany, he is now working for, you're not gonna believe this, a German-Ukrainian drone manufacturer.

So i need to put on my contrarian cap here, i don't think this guy is actually this bad at tactics, not when he has mastered tactical grifting to such a degree. He is doing what he has done for a decade, intentionally disseminating the dumbest shit imaginable to the dumbest reactionaries you can imagine.