@dee34601 yeah, WTF happened to both. Code Pink got started after the mom’s kid was killed in Iraq, but I feel like it got taken over by radical communists or something. gOP makes no sense historically, it’s just that they define themselves as whatever Ds are against. 

 @014b0bc7 there's a particular slice of the online American left that is vulnerable to conspiracy theories and reflexively contrarian, and bad actors like Putin have leveraged that **extremely** well. 

 @014b0bc7 big yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html 

 @dee34601 who among us didn’t organize a panel discussion at our wedding?
This story just gets crazier the more you read. This is great reporting from the Times

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