[peter12]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Part of my point is that they use everything, true or not, with or without context. They’ve used things that are a lot more directly questionable or concerning than what amounts to an embarrassing mistake, and twisted things that nobody here would find concerning or questionable into justification. Just the fact that it’s being use doesn’t mean it’s doing “damage” or having any impact on anyone outside of the already bought-in and gullible.

The propaganda machine has been running for a very long time in Russia, and if the degree to which we view things negatively (or positively) is based on whether it can be used to fuel that machine, regardless of its truth, then that’s basically saying that they run the show, and they dictate how we should feel about things and how we should react to things. Not for me.

Come on.