• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Useful idiot and paid russian shill are the same thing, in this context.

    You’re seeing a category difference where there isn’t one.

    A useful idiot is someone who says/does things X finds helpful.

    A paid shill is a person who is paid by X to promote things or ideas.

    All of these apply to Timmy Beanboy.

    If you… don’t believe that Tim Pool was directly paid by Russian Intelligence… you are just factually wrong. That is what happened, he was funded by Russia, the entire thing you describe as a borderline impossible conspiracy theory is… well documented history.

    They made up a fake, rich benefactor figure, invented a fake person, and basically catfished Tim and others (Dave Rubin, Ben Johnson) into a financial relationship, where this fake person acted as the pay pig.

    Its honestly a pretty common type of scam technique, pig-butchering… but just done in the inverse.

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      3 months ago

      I’m saying that his career wasn’t started by Russia, and he doesn’t get marching orders from them either. They pay him cause he says the things they want said. Is what I’m saying.

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        3 months ago

        You are confused, that its not what you said.

        What you just said here is accurate, but what you said in the above comment is not, its confused.

        Yeah, they paid him, to be a shill, because he is a useful idiot who says shit they like being said, and yes, he’s so good at being a useful idiot by nature that they don’t even need to specifically direct him.

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            3 months ago

            Lol game recognizes game, why do you think I broke it down without being too much of an ass, hahaha!

            I’m so far into the spectrum, well… its my middle user name.

            People should be allowed to be genuinely wrong, and be politely corrected, when its actually a logic bug, not a knowingly bad faith argument.