Quick question for anyone in the know: What exactly was the....deal....with former DUer Catherina?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

My recollection of her was that up to about 2015 or so, she would plaster DU with loads of material from Russian state media and other sketchy sources (Paul Craig Roberts was a favorite) about topics like Ukraine and Syria where there was heavy Russian involvement. She wasn't shy about praising Putin on here, and played heavily along the pro-Snowden, pro-Greenwald, pro-Assange narratives as well.

She had quite the following here, and we would frequently be graced with "Catherina Appreciation Threads" about how great a contributor to DU that Catherina was.

Meanwhile, she had a Twitter account (@Catherina_News) where she would routinely gloat about how stupid American liberals were, referred to President Obama as the Antichrist (or thereabouts) and would post extremely creepy adoration pictures of Vladimir Putin. Her profile picture was actually the symbol for Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine combined with the old Soviet hammer and sickle.

For whatever reason, she went dark on Twitter around 2014. She continued to post at DU up until November 2015 before suffering a major flame out.

So, does anyone know what her deal was?

Was she just a rather gullible individual who was sold the "All westerners are war mongering imperialists and the devil, so says Russian Media" and ran with it to the extreme?

Or was she something more nefarious than that?

I'd love to know if anyone had any insight into her.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. I found her to be rather gullible, yet totally confident that she was right and everyone else was

wrong.

The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is that you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger club. Seemed to fit her.

[BeyondGeography]

2. I heard she and Willy T got married in a civil service with Manny Goldstein officiating

And there was a lot of complaining at the reception.

[PJMcK]

3. That is funny!

Only old-timers may get it, though.

[hlthe2b]

5. are they still around at that "other" website?

[PJMcK]

9. I don't think so

I seem to remember that they sold it or divested of it several months ago.

It's worth five minutes to take a look at it. Simply, it's a mess.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Hahahahahaha!

[Freethinker65]

7. Ha

[malaise]

12. That's a high quality DUzy

[SharonClark]

14. LOL!

[treestar]

15. LOL

[Phentex]

16. Oh my!

Perfect reply

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I expect

Don't forget BBI was best man.

[hlthe2b]

4. I just remember her informing all female DUers posting on any feminist issue that....

we were ALL WRONG (unless we adopted/regurgitated her viewpoints in total).

Interesting though...She seemed to have a lot of issues with quite a few DUers up to and including when she left.

[bearsfootball516]

8. I looked up her old Twitter, which includes a profile picture of the old Soviet hammer and sickle

And her old profile says she was removed due to not agreeing to the terms of service. Almost everyone who replied in her "goodbye" thread have been banned from what I've seen in the thread, was Hillary bashing.

Some of which had massive post counts.

[hlthe2b]

11. Just for curiosity's sake.. how do you know how to find her on twitter?

I'm not on twitter, though I do google some of the more prominent posters from time to time. I've long wondered how people identify each other unless they use (and know) their REAL names?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. She actually advertised her Twitter account on DU.

And when I found out how she was bashing Obama and American liberals and linked to those tweets, my posts were hidden. Who knew?

[octoberlib]

24. And she was tweeting in Russian.

[bearsfootball516]

20. You're fine, the OP mentioned her twitter handle was @Catherina_News

[hlthe2b]

21. Thanks.. looks like she stopped tweeting in 2014...

curious...

[bearsfootball516]

22. Yeah, there's a lot that doesn't add up. I'm not sure what it all means.

[Scurrilous]

17. Catherina was Tinoire's fake sister.

She was a sock puppet. Not a real person. I saw the PM Tinoire (longtime DUer behind the Stalin loving Bell Forum) sent to another DUer detailing this.

[salin]

19. I don't recall Catherina, perhaps interacted with her - but not long-memorable. But...

I do recall Tinoire - from way back - maybe pre invasion of Iraq, or early invasion. She struck me as militant and naive/gullible (in response to the first question.)

[Scurrilous]

23. "She struck me as militant..."

Yep. My last interaction with her she called me a 'traitor.' LOL To what or whom I have no idea.