Who claimed it was Russia? This is corporate propaganda. I legitimately don't trust that the groups opposing all of this are acting in the best interests of the city and the workers, only in the interests of already rich white NIMBY's and corporations.

During the head tax fiasco, the people collecting signatures were openly lying and pushing corporate propaganda [1], and it seems like most of Seattle's media that isn't third party are just local propaganda outlets that push serious distrust of our elected left wing officials at the expense of residents that aren't rich, unless it's something like giving public money to a sports stadium that could've been funded by private money. The hate of Sawant is unjustified and further pushed by local propaganda.

Please stop conflating propaganda with just Russia as well. Noam Chomsky clearly points out the propaganda model and how it's used by our own media & corporations, and also points out how a lot of businesses are private governments now [2].

[] https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/06/27190451/audio-a...

[2] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam...