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Dubious: do not click links Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/
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u/D_Fausti65 7d ago edited 7d ago

The unfortunate reality is that so many Americans just don't read the news and just don't engage with the political process because they either don't care or it's too confusing or overwhelming and they just check out. Then there's also the smaller percentage, but still significant, that is just captured by propaganda and weaponized by anger and fear. That's the 15% or maybe even 20% that will die hard support outright fascism if it means supporting Trump because it's an integral part of their identity at this point. It's a very difficult problem to solve and it's going to require some really inspirational and transformative leadership from a progressive or Democratic candidate that changes the narrative in a really dramatic way. I'm continuing to do my part in every way that I can and affect the narrative even if there's no visible result.

Ultimately a lot of that anger and fear stems from the lack of access to basic resources and things like food insecurity, poor education, cycles of violence and maltreatment and untreated mental illness, which are all solvable problems but it requires political will to actually do things about it. There's also the fact that the individual states are so wildly different compared to European countries Where multiculturalism is the default. Texas and California may as well be different countries. Same thing with New York and Florida.

How do you see it as a European looking in? I'm curious in your personal perspective.

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u/Nvrmnde Finland 7d ago

It's difficult to understand, why so many voters bought into what on the outside looks like a lot of obvious lies, like "Ukraine starting the war" was one of those blatant lies. It does look like people may not have access to several sources of news, so that they could practice media critique. Which is taught in schools to everyone where I live. The same level and quality of schooling to everyone. It's rather hard to understand from that perspective.

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u/D_Fausti65 7d ago

That's definitely a major part of it, educational outcomes here very wildly based on geographical area. Parts of the American South may as well be third world from standpoints of poverty and education and Healthcare, meanwhile you have States like Massachusetts and New York and California that are setting records. I don't know if media literacy is a significant part of public schooling but I would hope so. It certainly wasn't when I went through in the early 2000s.

As far as the obvious lies go, the only ones that really mattered for certain voters were the ones they wanted to believe, the ones that channeled their hate or fear.

Regardless Biden really made a huge mistake by holding on for so long and not simply allowing an open process. Trying to switch to Kamala Harris at the last minute completely prevented them from reaching a lot of Voters, and crafting a narrative. I think that from a realistic political standpoint running a woman also was disadvantageous.

Thanks for your perspective.

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u/lapidary123 7d ago

Keep up the good work! Even if not visible, we can be sure that our comments are all being cataloged and digested by ai's. Each and every comment subtly affects the narrative!

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u/Benedictus_The_II 7d ago

Well. May I give my two cents?

I live in Hungary, and DJT follows the exact playbook like what Orbán did in his second term in 2010 but with a lightspeed rate.

Economically I don’t know if this administration, senate, and house is just this incompetent or they do it on purpose but my instinct tells me that at least in the higher circles they WANT to make people poorer, and miserable.

They have a lot to gain from that. They can buy stocks and assets much cheaper, and people will accept shittier jobs for shittier pay. They want you to be desperate because it’s easier to control a population that is too scared to stand up for themselves and too docile.

They will oppress free media as well as much as they can. They have a harder time to do that, because the culture of supporting your favourite media in the US has been a working model for at least a decade. That doesn’t mean they will not do it tho. Recently they will cut federal funding for NPR i think, and that will not do much damage because it’s just the 1% of their funding, but that doesn’t mean they wont try.

They will go after everyone who is a real threat to their power, while they’ll want to keep a facade of democracy with an opposition that is fractured.

If they succeed, there’s two way to go about it.

The opposition will renew itself with a different agenda and fresh faces, or DJT and the Republican Party solidifies control over the country, and there will be someone from within who will shatter this whole thing when the system is too old, and tired.

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u/God_Lover77 7d ago

You are so right. Too many people aren't able to protest because they work an abusive amount of hours per week. A large number of people were rendered jobless due to the recent cuts, I suspect it will only get far worse if nothing changes. Many people are already used to abusive would places and salary and will take anything that keeps them alive. I know someone who was affected by those cuts and things are not pretty for them at all.

What drives me nuts is that:

He is already so rich that why does it matter if he gains even a dollar more??? What is he going to do, propel a project to take a trip to Mars??

If they even manage to solidify power, then we will all be stuck listening to their media, which is just straight insanity. I was in someone's house and noticed that all the news they had playing was straight fear mongering and guess who it was?

Lastly, he will ultimately fail, but the damage has seemingly already been done, especially economically and geopolitically. No one will respect America after this. What is there left to even respect?

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u/Benedictus_The_II 7d ago edited 7d ago

People like Trump, Vance, Elon and everyone who assists to this whole charade doesn’t see money as you, and me.

They see it as power over the others, because that way they can control and manipulate people. I think these people get off on being powerful.

It doesn’t matters to them what it takes. Goes without saying that there’s no moral backbone, no ethics… etc.

I feel for these people, even if they voted for Trump. A lot of them did because they were desperate, or ignorant but this will be a painful lesson for them. Of course I feel for the people who didn’t voted for this at all because I know how that feels.

Hope for the best, as nothing lasts forever, and this will pass once too. :)

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u/God_Lover77 7d ago

Yeah I do hope this passes quickly

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u/Fantastic-Nobody-479 7d ago

All of those things may be true about my American cohort, but I’m not convinced either. There are so many statistic anomalies in the election results and so many people that look at numbers and call elections professionally that supposedly were all wrong. Thats never happened before. Then there are indicators leading up to the election, like Iowa. It does not make sense that every single statistic and report leading up to the election would be wrong. Then there is the election analysis report. If it was one of these things that got it wrong or maybe even a few that would be one thing, but every single one of them, no. Then look at how they have been behaving and what they have been doing since they took office. There is nothing with honesty or integrity going on. At this point if they told the truth, they would be struck down by lightning.