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Re:Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok by dilyevsky on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:36PM (#24355642)
Not a secret russian government spends considerable resources on online astroturfing but there are large constituency of closet (or not so closet) putin supporters even among tech folks of 30yo and older (basically people who were alive and old enough to remember 90s and 80s)
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Re:Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok by siliconvalley1 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:02PM (#24357377)
Why would you think that there is a large number of Pro-Putin Pro-Political Assassination tech workers? This seems like a ridiculous statement.
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Re:Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok by dilyevsky on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:07PM (#24357471)
It’s quite anecdotal but my sampling is rather large as I’ve worked with those people over multiple years and still have contacts there. Nobody would admit they approve of this assassination obviously same as mh17 but as long as putin maintains plausible deniability they’d be ok with supporting him
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