re: #32 Shiplord Kirel

“re: #23 Kragar

Behind Bryan Fischer apparently

Bryan Fischer @BryanJFischer

It can be done: Russia bans profanity. Our 1st Amendment protects political speech, not profanity.”

Fuck you, Bryan. See you in court.

So Bryan Fisher becomes another “fellow traveler.”

[…] And the Kremlin’s “non-linear” sensibility is evident as it manipulates Western media and policy discourse. If in the 20th century the Kremlin could only lobby through Soviet sympathizers on the left, it now uses a contradictory kaleidoscope of messages to build alliances with quite different groups. European right-nationalists such as Hungary’s Jobbik or France’s Front National are seduced by the anti-EU message; the far-left are brought in by tales of fighting U.S. hegemony; U.S. religious conservatives are convinced by the Kremlin’s stance against homosexuality. The result is an array of voices, all working away at Western audiences from different angles, producing a cumulative echo chamber of Kremlin support.

Influencers often appear in Western media and policy circles without reference to their Kremlin connections: whether it’s PR company Ketchum placing pro-Kremlin op-eds in the Huffington Post[…]

foreignpolicy.com