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Putin's bitch
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GrundleStiltzkin said:
Agree with the bad optics to congratulate Putin now. The rest is partisan and naive. The Russians have been running disinformation and agitprop operations in the US since the 1920s. The Kremlin funneled money to MLK because they thought he was a good bet as a destabilizing force.insinceredawg said:
No but definitely at such a large scale. The fact of the matter is, all 3 of these incidents are in the current news cycle so the timing is awful to congratulate Putin. There was nothing of this magnitude going on at the time of the Obama call.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Holy shit, you truly think 2016 was a first?insinceredawg said:
Remind me again, was that before or after Russia meddled in our elections, hacked our national power grids, and attempted to murdered civilians in our allies' streets?RaceBannon said:
You're still failing at not bringing up Obama or Hillary to defend Trump on Russia. Try harder.
Do you Trumptards realize how FS your logic is in defending Trump?
-Trump does something stupid
-Find a false equivalency related to Obama or Hillary
-Say it's okay for Trump since Obama and Hillary did it
-Rinse and repeat
If you guys hated Obama or Hillary so much, then why are you ok with Trump doing the same thing (btw they're not the same)?
Do you know that nothing was going on when Obama made whatever call you say he did? The large scale, as you say, does not materialize overnight.
I feel certain the Russians have sought to influence every presidential election for decades. The tools they now have make the campaigns more widespread, but also easier to detect. For example, it's hard to know who might have planted a newspaper editorial read by some thousands, which the Russians absolutely have done and continue, but essentially anyone can monitor Twitter activity because it is seen by millions.
The most troubling part of this is not that Russians work to influence our domestic affairs and elections, but that we? are susceptible to it. While popular sentiment continues to believe that Russians "hacked" the election, electronically changing results in the polls somehow, I've seen no credible allegation or incident where that occurred. Instead, it was information, or disinformation. Law enforcement and counterintelligence can only do so much to thwart that in an open society.
