"I am just writing the word useful in this example. This isn't actually useful so you can skip this shit"
by Whythehellareyoustillhere? October 26, 2020
The kind of people who defined this term just like how the term was popularized in the first place: propaganda.
It means someone who follows or supports an ideal or person without knowing what it/they represent(s).
It means someone who follows or supports an ideal or person without knowing what it/they represent(s).
Conservatives, by calling leftists "useful idiots", believe that they think the same way they do, but in reverse.
by F.H. December 21, 2020
Often mistakenly attributed to Lenin, Stalin or Marx, the term was first used by US newspapers in 1948 and has little documented usage within the Soviet Union, meaning a third party who spreads propaganda or disinformation, usually unintentionally or without fully understanding the cause they're proselytizing for. Originally used during the cold war to refer to Western communist sympathisers, or those susceptible to communist propaganda, the term could be used today to refer to those spreading anti-vaccine misinformation echoed or amplified by Russian intelligence, or ,or Trump supporters acting on foreign-spread conspiracy theories about pizzas and child molesters. In any case, the person spreading the disinformation uses someone susceptable to the disinformation in order to spread it further
This useful idiot read online that Hilary Clinton is selling kids through this pizza place and now he's going down there to shoot it up.
by Dr MDrr February 22, 2021
by onewindows November 17, 2020
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