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  • tal@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    The mods have already deleted his stuff here, so I can’t see it, but from some time on here reading Linkerbaan’s past posts and comments, I think that he just really dislikes Israel and that one issue dominates pretty much all his comments. I don’t agree with him at all, but I don’t think that he’s just aiming to do a hit job on Harris so much as that he’s not going to agree with any politician or country that doesn’t take a pretty strongly anti-Israel approach and doesn’t care about Harris-vs-Trump compared to that.

    If anyone is actually paying him, which I doubt very much – Russian influence campaigns that I’ve seen disinformation researchers report on in the past tend to have people just posting generic talking points and not actually engage with people, too expensive to run – I’d think that it’d be Iran or someone like that, not Russia. Russia doesn’t care about Israel, other than to the limited degree that it might be used as a wedge issue on the US or something like that.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I think that he just really dislikes Israel and that one issue dominates pretty much all his comments

      I thought that too, until I noticed him telling outright lies. Thwn, later, he posted an anti-Ukrainian YT video in English, but when you looked at the video the title was auto-translated to Russian. What does that tell you?

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      To add some context: linkerbaan means ‘left lane’ in Dutch, so he’s quite clear about his bias. It’s just unfortunate he’s not open to reasonable interaction