dissident wrote:careinke wrote:Hey Dissident, please don't take offense, but are you one of those "thousands" of Russian social media trolls, the MSM have been screaming about? Just curious.
Don't get me wrong, you are ALWAYS one of my favorite reads. At the very least, you certainly raise my critical thinking skills. Your comments are always lucid and well thought out. As a matter of fact we agree on LOTS of stuff.
Like you, I think this whole Chem Weapons thing does not ring true. I can see NO advantage to Asad for using chem weapons at this point in time. The current Russian story, seems the most credible at the moment. Although your False Flag hypothesis is certainly intriguing.....
Your question comes from cognitive dissonance. Anyone who is not running with the herd of media-fed lemmings must be some "agent of a foreign" power. My link to Russia and Ukraine is that I have relatives there and I left the USSR during the 1970s. At least I have access to information that clearly contradicts the information bubble being maintained by the western media. They don't lie to you about events at home, but they spew 100% tin foil hat conspiracy theories about Russia.
The western media has zero credibility. They did not cover the massive protests against the 2003 Iraq invasion. Three million people demonstrated against it in Rome alone. Yet they screech that some protest of 20,000 in Moscow is epic in scale. That city has over 17 million residents. CNN and pals described the March 2, 2014 massacre of unarmed protestors who were herded into the Trade Union building in Odessa and burned alive as "some people died in a fire". Those that tried to escape by jumping through windows were beaten to death. Then you bitches whine about Russian meddling after you stage regime change coups around the world.
Maybe you should ask the question to yourself why you still believe that your government and media represent any sort of normalcy and are not a freak show. I get riled up by the brazen, bloody lies and hypocrisy from a collection of mass murdering war criminals posing as agents of goodness and the guiding light of humanity. You call this paid trolling. This makes you an accomplice to the butchers.
Actually, my question came out of curiosity, sorry to offend you, it was not intentional. You never know the answer unless you ask the question. That said, your answer seems to be a little defensive, don't you think?
As a side note, I just found out the other day, at my younger brothers celebration of life/wake/party, (he was not religious), that I have a Russian connection in my past. My uncle brought me some documents about my paternal grandfather and the Reinke Clan. It turns out the Reinke's immigrated from Germany (Prussia) in 1776, but not to the US. They went to Russia answering some call issued by Catharine the Great (not sure what is was). Then evidently things got bad in 1876 and they moved to Kansas.
My uncle had a birth certificate for my grandfathers Mother dated 1879 and it was in German which I found interesting as it was issued in the U.S.
Since I'm retired I may do some sleuthing and get a DNA test. I can't imagine the family living in Russia for 100 years and not picking up any of the local DNA. Who knows, I probably have the blood of my former "enemy" in me.