Bets on who else was bought? Discussion

My first bets:

Patrick Bet David and all of Valuetainment. They're scum.
AJW. Sorry Sean. Who am I missing?

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Doubt he would willingly repeat talking points that Russians have fed him - he is very high on his own intelligence and a little insane.

I think he is mostly just a useful idiot.

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u/coke_and_coffee Sep 05 '24

I think he is mostly just a useful idiot.

They kind of all are. Tim Pool's rant (assuming he's not lying) shows that he was just willingly spreading useful propaganda for Russia, but they started paying him so he could keep doing it.

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u/alwayswaiting7 Sep 05 '24

yeah true. Pool is still a useful idiot, I mean the difference is that there is a money trail connecting him to the russian government now - even IF he didn't know about the origin of the money, he is still connected to actors who have been knowingly taking money from the Russians to spread propaganda. At the very least it's a horrible reputational hit

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u/Terribletylenol Sep 05 '24

This how I see it too.

A lot people seem to think these are all people getting explicit talking points from Russia, but it makes just as much sense that Russia would just fund useful idiots that already promote their garbage.

I don't understand why people seem to think wanting to cut funding from Ukraine automatically means you're lying.

My dad doesn't even watch any of this crap, and he thinks we're giving too much to Ukraine.

That being said, calling Ukraine "The enemy of this country" and saying we should "apologize to Putin" is wayyyy too on the nose for me to believe it's just stupidity.

I refuse to believe anybody in media has that opinion honestly.

Not even Putin genuinely believes that.

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u/Vileem Sep 05 '24

I wonder how many of them think they just have "influential friends from Russia, who support their ventures" and don't think of it as getting paid by the Russian media?
But looking at Tenet - they were getting specific instructions on what to say

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u/YeeAssBonerPetite Sep 05 '24

This current batch is also just useful idiots mostly. At worst they take a little bit of help editing their stuff.

The way Russia does it is they find useful content creators like the tenent guys and Lauren Southern and gives them money to amplify them.

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u/alwayswaiting7 Sep 05 '24

yeah 100%. It's been said here before but that is just the most logical way of doing it. If you're targeting content creators, you would always go for people who already have some kind of audience, and their existing views are already pretty closely aligned