She was pretty emotional at times. She only really smiled the once. You can see that it fucked her up a little bit, she’s just got enough fire not to let it bother her on camera and mostly get on with what she feels like needs to be said. That is my read of it at least, from my uninformed perspective.

Matrix is an absolutely pale imitation of Discord.

Yes it is very upsetting that the most popular chat platform in the Western world is in league with Sauron, but Matrix as a replacement is a glorified ICQ client that regularly yells at you that your device is untrusted now and there’s no hope of fixing it, you loser.

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Yeah. I used to work with some guys from eastern Europe who would practically punch you if you heard their accent and referred to them or guessed that they were “Russian.”

Hope you’ll gonna get out of this looming autocracy soon. The world still needs you! 😁

Yeah, me too. Me too. I am reading this which is supposed to be a pretty solid guidebook, and I may try to change my job so I can be aligned a little bit more with resisting and then recovering to something good. I fucking hope this all goes okay man, so far it is not for anybody.

Jesus. That is a hell of a lot. That would be equivalent to spending $300 billion on American election interference, or about 10 Manhattan projects in modern dollar terms.

I am also disgusted with my country that these much smaller “not professional” countries are resisting Russian propaganda somewhat-effectively, where the US faced with proportionally a much smaller amount of it is not just slurping it up but rolling around in it blowing bubbles begging “give me more daddy pls.”

Putin really changed the whole massive arc of the fuckin’ world and its history with what he’s been doing to the US in the last 10 years or so.

Also, that was after Moldova made two pro-Russian parties illegal.

I do kind of get why they did it, and I claim absolutely no qualification to say whether it was a good thing or bad thing, but one of the most poisonous aspect of Russia’s way of doing election interference is that it’s not limited to election outcomes: It actually changes the for-real will of the electorate. Elections are only one piece of the public making their voice heard. If a big chunk of your public is getting hoodwinked by Russia on a regular basis, that’s going to fuck you up all to hell, regardless of what happens or doesn’t happen in the election.

Think of all the stuff they are breathing…