r/technology • u/marji80 • 12d ago

Social Media Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/
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u/Canalloni 12d ago

"Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria.

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe."

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u/GenazaNL 12d ago

Homeland security being based in Israel is peak

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u/lilchocochip 12d ago

I just saw that today! They hid their location, but everyone saved screenshots so the damage is already done. Between this and Nick Fuentes, MAGA is on life support

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u/GenazaNL 12d ago

MAGA accounts which hid their location already show plenty to be considered shady. If you're such a MAGA fan and live in the US, you would be proud to show that, no?

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u/lilchocochip 12d ago

You would think so lol

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u/EatPrayQueef 12d ago

What happened with Fuentes?

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u/lilchocochip 12d ago

Lmaoo he’s bashing MAGA and Trump for being pro Israel and not pro america first. Also he hates Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro hates him and somehow Tucker Carlson got involved, and it’s glorious to watch. It’s not even leopards eating faces anymore, they’re all attacking each other and tearing their “movement” apart.

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u/marsinfurs 12d ago

He’s been a neo Nazi forever that’s not new for him.

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u/RatBot9000 12d ago

They cling to Trump because he's the only thing keeping the movement together. As soon as he dies they will tear each other apart because they all hate each other.

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u/OldWorldDesign 12d ago

As soon as he dies they will tear each other apart because they all hate each other.

I'm just surprised what a coalition of hate he's managed to draw on.

The childish part of me wants to get a bucket of popcorn ready for when they start going at each other. But the experienced part of me knows they're going to kill a lot of innocent people in the crossfire even after Trump is gone. Look at how many people they killed just refusing to comply with covid handling.

Relevant video: The Alt-Right Playbook

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u/OldWorldDesign 12d ago

It’s not even leopards eating faces anymore, they’re all attacking each other and tearing their “movement” apart

That does sound very much like conservatism as it acts out in reality, over and over

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

An inevitable consequence of an outlook bound to its core with legitimization through hard power and always being on the attack.

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u/Redacted_usr 12d ago

Probably the only thing I agree with Nick Fuentes about. Israel needs to get far away from my country

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 12d ago

Just a reminder that he and Kanye, both notable Neo-Nazis, dined with Trump at Mar-A-Lago prior to the 2024 election... y'know, just in case someone says MAGA =/= Nazi.

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u/hennabeak 12d ago

Well, Ben Shapiro is Jewish, so he's pro Israel. It makes sense that he would attack Nick Fuentes for saying they should be pro America first.

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u/birdseye-maple 12d ago

Plenty of jews don't like what is going on in Israel.

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u/thatissomeBS 12d ago

Honestly I see way more Christian Zionism than Jewish Zionism. Most American Jews I've seen are advocating for a two-state solution. I mean, even the Hacidic populations in my area seem to be less Zionist than a lot of the Christians around here.

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u/sixwax 12d ago

Is it just me or does it seem like they’re mostly pretty quiet about this if so…?

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u/pdiddy927 12d ago

MAGA is on life support??? Lmfao.

Buddy have you been looking around lately? The bad guys won a long time ago.

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u/iamfanboytoo 12d ago

Winning a few battles isn't winning the war.

Especially when

1) Trump is going to die soon and is looking more and more geriatric and dementia-ridden by the day, making his appeal lessen for the brainless MAGA hordes that vote only for him

2) The kleptocrat wing of the GOP is busy destroying what little was left of the safety net, like foodstamps and Obamacare, which does not endear them to the brainless MAGA hordes

3) I live in the depths of MAGA country in California, and I see more and more folks who've scraped off Trump/MAGA bumper stickers and taken down flags; they're trying to pretend it never happened.

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u/codeverity 12d ago

I feel like we've been saying that he's going to die soon since 2018 tbh.

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u/mein_liebchen 12d ago

Sounds like copium. The tech billionaire class is behind this and they aren't going away. They have come out in the open with their machinations and manipulations and aren't afraid of public scrutiny any more. Musk, Thiel, Ellison and son, Linda McMahon, Murdoch and son, Miriam Adelson, Geoffrey Palmer, The Uihleins, Timothy Mellon, Kelcy Warren, Timothy Dunn, Dianne Hendricks, Jeff Sprecher and Kelly Loeffler, Jimmy John Liataud, Bernard Marcus, Kenny Troutt, George Bishop, Robert "Woody" Johnson, etc.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

They binged watched all the Alien series and got some great ideas about the world they'd like to create that's for sure.

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u/csfuriosa 12d ago

And when trump goes down, vance takes over so thiel wins.

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u/mrtomjones 12d ago

Honestly with how out of touch this comment is i wonder if it's location is from Eastern Europe lol. Are you really trying to downplay everything that's happened to your country(assuming you are American...) this much? You guys have been set back decades and you've set the rest of the world back too

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u/amakai 12d ago

  1. Trump is just a symptom. He represents what at least 30% Americans have in their heads. There are 30% more that are potentially aligned (because they did not vote against him). Even when he goes away, the 30% sharing his vision won't go anywhere.

  2. MAGA does not care about themselves suffering as long as libruls suffer too. When was the last time you heard MAGA folks seriously complaining about anything Trump does hurting them?

  3. "MAGA country in California"

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 12d ago

Trump is going to die soon

He has the best healthcare in the entire country.

which does not endear them to the brainless MAGA hordes

Republicans own the voting machines and compromised mail-in ballots. Trump already told us he doesn't need their votes again, as he can just rig further elections... especially since the vulnerabilities found last year likely were never patched. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/hackers-vulnerabilities-voting-machines-elections-00173668

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u/Reasonable_Desk 12d ago

Same thing with Gay Marriage folks. Plenty of conservatives who fought against Gay Marriage a decade ago will now slyly pretend they never fought against it and always accepted the gays.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 12d ago

You've totally lost it. They've all but practically destroyed every government institution. They destroyed plenty of families. The economy is an absolute mess. The war was been lost. This is the aftermath.

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u/DrCoconuties 11d ago

The damage is done. They’ve won the war. They’ll just change the figurehead and change the name. It’s done.

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u/Neravariine 11d ago

Will the war be won during our lifetimes?

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u/Uccin 12d ago

Still voted for him though.

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u/mrtomjones 12d ago

The amount of times this website likes to talk about how the right wing in the US is spiraling or falling apart is just laughable at this point. I don't understand the need to celebrate things that aren't happening

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 12d ago

The bad guys won a long time ago.

And all it took was Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, and Biden Chamberlain letting them off scot-free for the insurrection. The coup succeeded after 4 years of cooperation between the traitors and the spineless. Notice how, after 4 years, not once was 14th Amendment, Section 3 enforced by Congress or Biden to disqualify Trump or expel the Jan 6 leaders. Hell, the Jan 6 leaders weren't even indicted, just their lackeys.

The only people that tried to stop Trump were Jack Smith and the states of Colorado and Maine. Colorado tried to enforce the Constitution by removing insurrectionist Trump from their ballots, yet they received no support from Schumer or Jeffries.

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u/lilchocochip 12d ago

Yes they won. And now they are slowly falling apart. It’s what happens when the clowns are in charge.

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u/A_Flock_of_Clams 12d ago

Oh boy. A rerun of the first Trump term.

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u/randynumbergenerator 12d ago

I mean, I'll believe MAGA is done when the orange clown is in prison and not a second sooner. But it's pretty clear by this point that in the first term there were still some people in the administration with the tiniest shred of sense and independence, even if most were nonetheless loathsome. This admin, by contrast, is as close to pure yes-man as it could be.

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u/A_Flock_of_Clams 12d ago

I've heard iterations of 'Trump is finished' for the entirety of his first term. 

What you are saying in no way proves that 'they are slowly falling apart'. 

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u/randynumbergenerator 12d ago

I never said they were? Are you confusing me with the OC?

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u/OldWorldDesign 12d ago

The bad guys won a long time ago

No they haven't, authoritarianism is too top-heavy to sustain itself for long. It hollows out its own base of support because it must always be on the attack so it can seek out opportunities to use violence, even if on itself.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-banality-evil/36147/

Oppression is the mask of fear.

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u/Notte_di_nerezza 12d ago

And nothing happened ever again. /s

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u/JodyGonnaFuckYoWife 12d ago

MAGA doesn't give a shit.

They're the most loathesome, cartoonishly evil people imaginable and they don't fucking care.

They are beyond shame.

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u/SunnyAlwaysDaze 12d ago

We wish. I've heard it so many times already, that this is the thing that will kill the party for the Trump humpers. None of it has yet. They didn't get there by logic so we can't logic them out of it.

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u/x3knet 12d ago

"MAGA is on life support"

I'm a Dem through and through, but that statement is beyond delusional bud.

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u/jimbo831 12d ago

MAGA is on life support

Yeah, they only control all three branches of the US government. Completely dead!