Originally published at: Russian FSB agents confuse "The Sims" with SIM cards in alleged Nazi evidence plant | Boing Boing
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Looks like that red t shirt has never been worn either. Get me the prop department! i need a nazi shirt right now.
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Putin has only the best people.
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What’s the green wig for?
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People really are that stupid to fall for that huh?
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If you have to ask, you’re not ready to know.
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perhaps its the work of a double agent ingeniously botching the planting of evidence, maybe there is even a secret message planted in the sims game so kids can find it like in a 80s cold war era spy movie.
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You may as well ask, “Why is there a watermelon there?”
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Does anyone know if this holds up in the context of the language the orders were presumably delivered in?
Is “SIM” or “SIM card” one of those jargon terms that has achieved vernacular status across languages; or is it one where there are assorted local terms derived from the appropriate translations of “subscriber identity module”?
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Gosh, if they’re telling the truth, you’d think they’d be parading the arrestees all over TV instead of this oddball collection of “evidence”.
In that baggie…is that crack?!? Whodafuq and where dafuq does one obtain such an antiquity in the year 2022? I mean, beyond a dusty old evidence locker?
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It’s a contest between the Russian public and the thuggish meatheads the FSB sent to buy the materials for the supposed plot.
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The answer is yes.
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Someone said on reddit earlier that it may not have been a mistake, but rather a dogwhistle. The Sims is supposedly a bit of a political football in Russia emblematic of cultural degeneration, since you can have gay characters. It would be a bit like having a Mister Potatohead or whatever the nutters are wanking themselves into a froth about this week. The intended audience reads it as intended, we just see a mistake.
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Not an FSB fuck up—these are clearly the actual possessions of someone deeply devoted to Simlish Nationalism
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Anyone who points out the stupidity can be arrested or assassinated, so suspicious doings get more mileage than they would in a freer society.
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Fake Ukrainian passports, Nazi paraphernalia, weapons…
This has False Flag operation stamped all over it, fodder for the home market.
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You left out the best part: the card signed “illegible signature!”
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I prefer to believe this is an instance of malicious compliance by a junior agent who hates his bosses rather than just overt stupidity.
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Oskar Schindler, who faked the Polish attack that the Nazis used as an excuse to invade in the 1930s, would have done better.
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And of course, everybody knows undercover n4zi assassins don’t go ANYwhere without their bright red t-shirts & literature.
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