Idk, I've had three clients diagnosed with schizophrenia and, while one was fairly racist, the other 2 were rad as hell, and I don't think the bigotry had anything to do with the racist one's mental health- just culture.

In fact, I think bigotry is a pretty normal human thing to experience. Psychotic symptoms (and poor mental health in general) can certainly lead to and exacerbate bigotry, but I don't think pathologizing bigotry itself makes much sense. I mean yeah if someone is experiencing bigoted delusions/obsessions/compulsions/etc then we should call that what it is, but bigotry itself is typically better explained by culture and natural human behavior

Edit: but I do like the idea of coopting it. I think it would be hilarious to respond to someone using it as a dog whistle with something like "haha I'm [autistic/ADHD/BP/etc] too." I think that would really rustle their jimmies

But it's the most distinguishable state shape and easily the most famous US state. Don't they at least teach about William S. McLoughlin in world history? Everyone knows "that story" about when he worked as an aide to Portland Mayor Baker in 1913

Oof, I thought it was a joke about psychosis and immediately shared it with my BP1 peeps

Long as fuck article so here's a summary provided by GPT-4:

The article "The Lies Russia Tells Itself" by Thomas Rid discusses the Russian disinformation campaign known as Doppelganger, which targets Western countries with fake news and misinformation. The campaign, orchestrated by the Social Design Agency (SDA), creates cloned websites of legitimate news outlets to spread pro-Russian narratives. The U.S. Department of Justice seized 32 domains associated with this campaign and released extensive internal documents revealing its operations

Key insights

• Tactics and Methods: Doppelganger uses fake articles, videos, and social media to manipulate public opinion, often exploiting existing societal tensions
• Self-Deception: The SDA's reports exaggerated its impact, misleading both its funders and itself about the effectiveness of its campaigns
• Western Response: Despite being exposed, the campaign continued, partly because exposure increased its perceived effectiveness among Russian bureaucrats

Key Numbers and Facts

• Document Leak: The leaked documents from the Social Design Agency (SDA) comprised more than 3,000 individual files detailing their disinformation strategies and operations.

• Fake Websites: Between November 2023 and August 2024, the Doppelganger campaign produced over 700 fake websites, marking it as one of Russia's largest known disinformation factories.

• Social Media Activity: The SDA pushed out 3,161 social media comments promoting its fake articles on Bild and 3,277 links to fake Daily Mail stories between mid-May and mid-July 2022.

• Views of Fake Websites: The investigation by Bavarian intelligence revealed that Doppelganger achieved just over 800,000 views of its 700 fake websites across all its campaigns during the specified period.

• Target Audience Engagement: The majority of views came from France and Germany, with the SDA's fake websites targeting Americans receiving fewer than 180,000 clicks.

• Performance Metrics: The SDA kept extensive records of its social media interactions, logging hundreds of thousands of comments in spreadsheets to track their perceived impact.

• Ambitious Goals: One internal document set key performance indicators for a disinformation campaign in Germany, aiming to increase support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany party and sow “fear of the future” among the German public.

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I'm pretending this is why few people seem to like this meme, rather than it actually just being a shit joke lol

Me neither, I thought this was Florida when I stole it from Hobby Lobby

Those damn type 12 liberals

Guys its moptimus prime

Maybe something like this?

It's Oregon

Some instances don't show downvotes (like blahaj.zone). Also, maybe they're bashing Democrats bc Dems are fucking awful? Not as bad as republicans obviously, but that should go without saying around here. Leftists shitting on Biden and refusing to vote for him seems to have played an important role in him stepping down and, until he did, we were constantly shat on by liberals over it and accused of being Russian/trolls/etc. This is the same. Harris needs to adopt leftist positions if she wants leftist support

Edit: I am aware, however, that OP likes to troll. Their style is classic (i.e., obvious yet still reels people in) and it's hilarious

For being a pedantic little shit to my teacher?

I once got out of doing an assignment in computer class in highschool by insisting that I read the TOS of the relevant program before I could begin, which I couldn't get through by the end of the period

IT'S ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO ASK ME THAT

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