But she accused the Russian President of exploiting the error by the former Speaker, who had apologized and resigned after the incident, for propaganda purposes.

“We can’t change the fact that he made that mistake. We can, though, all of us decide how effective Vladimir Putin is at weaponizing that mistake,” she said. “And I would really urge all of us to understand that Russian propaganda is real.”

![brainworms](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/99832a04-92c8-4765-9a52-aecd28086cef.png "emoji brainworms") Yes, the thing we did BY MISTAKE supports the claims made by our adversary, BUT its up to all of us to be dismissive of these claims, because they make my Uncles very upset

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a very simple solution to people weaponizing your Nazi worship

[–] huf@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, it's to call it russian propaganda and then double down on it, apparently

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fucked up thing is this will genuinely work this is a nation of redditors

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just saying the word "Putin" shuts off liberals' brains. 10,000 hours of MSNBC has them trained like Pavlov's Dog.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

"Pavlov?! He must be one of Putler's many spies pushing propaganda!" ![maddened](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c56a5e78-b281-4da8-9d97-5499d884b378.png "emoji maddened")