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I asked this in the last SQS but does anyone know what’s up with Jackson Hinkle? A “MAGA communist” spamming low quality anti-Israel tweets has managed to become the most viral twitter account, apparently. Make it make sense…

He’s a grifter seeking the requisite amount of attention to keep getting a check from Russia.

It’s instructive to look at what an actual Russian troll looks like.

Yeah, he's a grifter and he's almost certainly getting paid in some ways by Russia and probably other countries (I refuse to believe there's an innocent explanation for his hot Russian GF), but besides that, it's instructive to see who is liking his tweets.

Or, at least I clicked the likes and retweets of some of his recent ones, and it was mostly... Muslims and other Third World people! Hinkle has figured out a lucrative niche for his grift; just like there are plenty of Republicans who are willing to praise any black people taking Republican views to high heavens, no matter how dodgy, there are plenty of third-world people who are willing to go googly-eyed for someone who looks like an all-American boy (even if the one all-American boy Hinkle always brings to my mind is Lee Harvey Oswald) espousing Third-Worldist stances and bashing the West.

(Heck, even his name - a former president's surname-as-a-first name combined with the actual surname sounding like his ancestors had something else (Hynkel?) before it was anglicized after Ellis Island - sounds like it's been invented by someone trying to figure out as American a name as possible...)

In this sense, while the "MAGA Communist" framing sounds completely nonsensical from a Western perspective, the idea of a patriotic, relatively socially conservative communist (no matter how performative and threadbare Hinkle's communism actually is) makes perfect sense for huge swathes of the world and holds a certain romantic appeal to even non-communists of left-nationalist tendencies. I've also heard that white Muslim converts tend to get outsized attention in the community, probably for the same reasons, but that also would require a credible narrative of actually being a Muslim.

I refuse to believe there's an innocent explanation for his hot Russian GF),

To be fair, hot Russian women dating American men way below their league is far from unprecedented. But yes, a top American propagandist for Russia dating a literal recent miss Russia is about as suspicious as the four brothers of the lottery commissioner winning the jackpot four nights in a row.

So the entire miss russia contest is a KGB recruitment drive so they can flog the most attractive woman in the land to some third-rate twitterati?

If I can imagine and plan that, then KGB definitely can do this. And prostitution is not even noticeably morally problematic compared to what KGB (or similar) are doing.

Probably they are not running it, but I would assume that recruiting woman from there make sense.

It’s overkill. It’s not discreet. It’s symbolically cucking the country. And from her pov, she’s got options, therefore she probably has a huge ego, and it’s hard to get someone like that to do your bidding.

A common wench would be far more serviceable. It's not like you need top 0.01% attractiveness to get into a guy's pants.

And it’s not like the average top .01% attractiveness is participating in or winning miss Russia contests, either, let’s be real.

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