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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone know why the White House Instagram page is so full of Russian commenters?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQV5ibAbTD/Trump's not even bothering to pretend that he's not Putin's puppet anymore, is he?
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)Squinch
(51,053 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)Igel
(35,374 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)just in case:
Hav
(5,969 posts)Some are pissed off because of some remarks regarding WW2 that ignored the Russian efforts to defeat the Nazis.
Bots working to get Trump elected wouldn't be so stupid to speak Russian when they want to influence Americans.
Igel
(35,374 posts)They just don't say what people assume they must say.
If you don't understand something, it's obvious it means whatever you want it to mean.
I've seen a few of these "look at this written by ferners in a funny langwige" posts that all make completely wrong-headed assumptions about what the twits (sorry, "tweets" must mean, and since all Russians want to have Trump's baby (since they can't have Poutain's ... sorry, "Putin's" they must be throwing carnations and not tomatoes.
I haven't seen a single post (yet) that wasn't staunchly pro-Russian nationalist (or pro USSR) and made room for either Trump or the US.
At first I thought they were people using Google translate, but pretty much they're not. More than a little poetry, which is a pain to translate. Esp. when the structure of the webpage formats normal text that's loose enough in a way that parallels blank verse. It's the old "is this badly formatted verse or badly formatted prose ... shit, can't tell ... wait, is *that* the point being made, it's located in the nexus of prose and poetry and tries to erase the formal difference? Argh. When idiot formatting is indistinguishable from high intellectual commentary, something's seriously effed.)
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)tazkcmo
(7,303 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Igel
(35,374 posts)Same kind of idea--what I don't know must be directed against me and in praise of my foes.
Paranoia runs deep.
Here are some translations, for just what popped up when I clicked on the link. Off the cuff, not worth proofing. If I type the the same thing ticwe and make mistakes, oh, llew. Fcku ti.
Remember, this is in response to the first post which presumably praises the US. Look for the hymns of praise.
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accordh2. The USSR beat fascism! Admit what's obvious and apologize. Be worthy of your army, mister Trump, otherwise you're not worthy to sweep up after your own soldiers that you're so proud of!
olgabezhinarova Bulat Okudzhava
whose birthday
fell on 9 May, landed at the front
almost a boy,
he fought but considered his experience
once war was done--in verse become
song, in a prose--a remarkable
novella "Be well, scholar!"
(trans. note: Bulat Okudzhava was a '60s-'70s poet-bard like Dylan, but whose poetry was widely published.)
arimprim Glory to the victor nations!
Glory to our forefathers who gave us the Great Victory!!! The USSR!!!
shumskiy.roman stupid picture
elena.gorn66
Yunna Morits
Algorithm
America, Britan, Germany,
Their military experience is unusual.
What is it I see in the fog of history?
Great were their war-makings:
They may start a war, but we end it!..
*
Our heroism, of course,
is repugnant,
When they fight with us it's heartless,
Wild and merciless k
the devourers,
Whose spirit of heroism is unusual:
They may start a war, but we end it!
*
But if we are foolishly open
and illuminate the ocean of trust--
At once they heap tricks on us,
Hellishly devising them,
They may start a war, but we end it!
*
It all repeats and grows thick
with fables
How we so offend everybody,
How we are more horrible than everybody else,
more dangerous than all others!..
We offend them all, those more excellent than us:
They may start a war, but we finish it!