• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Saying that foreign agents control your politicians is far more damning of those politicians and your country than it is of the foreign agents. Foreign agents are supposed to try to influence the politicians, and the politicians are supposed to resist that influence. One group is doing their job, and the other isn’t.

    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      For one thing, they didn’t say their politicians are controlled by foreign agents, they said that their politicians are foreign agents.

      But either way, turning to conspiracy theories in order to blame domestic issues on foreign scapegoats is a fascist thing to do.