I try not to think about Russian propaganda any more than I need to, but I think I just came up with a good way to tell how “Rus-pilled” someone is.

Ask them what they think about Assad and Syria, not what they think about Trump and America. https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2019/9/19/the-propaganda-trips-helping-assad-get-away-with-murder">https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/c...

See also: https://pulsemedia.org/2017/08/22/did-a-kremlin-pilgrimage-cause-alternet-bloggers-damascene-conversion/

I">https://pulsemedia.org/2017/08/2... don’t want to focus on the three people in this story, but rather the general thrust of Russian propaganda that isn’t related to the US election. They really want to defend Assad and Russia in Syria, and blame the CIA for everything Russian.

In case you missed the story that this thread is in response to: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/tech/russian-military-intel-facebook/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/2...

In case you’re wondering what “The Grayzone” is currently reporting regarding Syria, they discovered that Western propaganda is in fact against them. Shocker! https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/23/syria-leaks-uk-contractors-opposition-media/">https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/2...

We report, you decide.

If you ask someone what they think about Vladimir Putin and what they think about Bashar al-Assad, and they give some sort of weirdly defensive answer, I think you’ve found someone who has been Rus-pilled, or maybe is even an actual Russian troll. That’s my hypothesis.