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Here is US Politics - Pt 1
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There are literally posters on this site (an AFL football site), based in Australia that do nothing other than post about 'Hunter Bidens laptop, Biden bad, Trump good, Putin good, Ivermectin good, vaccines bad' along with links to Russian bots on Twitter and YouTube videos.
Or in other words, they've been clearly cooked by the Russians.
What makes you think they're alone?
The biggest impact was with Black voters (who tend to vote Democrat) and undecided voters, with the Russians telling them to stay home and not vote because 'Hillary Clinton has died and been replaced by a body double' or 'She cant be trusted to do the right thing' or 'both candidates bad' etc.
Generally speaking people don't change political allegiances, and the psy-op did little to change that.
What it did do is deeply radicalize and polarize people. People who then went on to engage in flame wars online, before taking to the streets to burn down American cites, engage in the odd mass shooting, and finally storm the Capitol on Jan 6th.
No, I've clearly (and unambiguously) stated that the Russians also heavily targeted Democrats and undecided voters (mainly Black Americans):
When Russian agents used social media to sow chaos among the US electorate, they tried all kinds of tactics. They posed as leftwing social justice activists and rightwing defenders of the Confederate flag. They made memes, bought ads, shared fake news and posted opinions from fake users on all sides of hot-button American issues.But one theme dramatically outpaced the rest: race.According to two reports prepared for the US Senate intelligence committee, by far the “most prolific” efforts were made to target black Americans. According to one report, Russia’s Internet Research Agency “created an expansive cross-platform media mirage targeting the black community, which shared and cross-promoted authentic black media to create an immersive influence ecosystem”.Analysts found that Russians used social media “troll farms” to “confuse, distract, and ultimately discourage” black people from voting for Hillary Clinton. They aimed to do so by describing the Democratic candidate for president as too similar to the Republican, Donald Trump, or by using bogus claims such as Clinton accepting donations from the Ku Klux Klan.Over five years, such efforts were expansive: researchers reported 10.4 million tweets, 1,107 YouTube videos, 116,205 Instagram posts and 61,483 unique Facebook posts from Russian operatives. Much of the material was intended to inflame anger among black Americans about skewed rates of poverty, incarceration and the use of force by police and thereby, in the words of one report, to “divert their political energy away from established political institutions”.The Russians obviously view the USA as their greatest enemy and rival. They clearly do NOT want a strong USA; they want the USA fractured, divided, fighting among itself and out of world affairs, so Russia can do what she likes with impunity.
The Russians also pushed hard for a Trump Presidency.
Consider those two sentences above together for a second, and you'll understand why the Russians did what they did.
Still nothing about the swing voters and independents.
The majority of black people don't even know the history of the party that they vote for.
You can provide all the facts and reporting you want. Its no use.There are literally posters on this site (an AFL football site), based in Australia that do nothing other than post about 'Hunter Bidens laptop, Biden bad, Trump good, Putin good, Ivermectin good, vaccines bad' along with links to Russian bots on Twitter and YouTube videos.
Or in other words, they've been clearly cooked by the Russians.
What makes you think they're alone?
The biggest impact was with Black voters (who tend to vote Democrat) and undecided voters, with the Russians telling them to stay home and not vote because 'Hillary Clinton has died and been replaced by a body double' or 'She cant be trusted to do the right thing' or 'both candidates bad' etc.
Generally speaking people don't change political allegiances, and the psy-op did little to change that.
What it did do is deeply radicalize and polarize people. People who then went on to engage in flame wars online, before taking to the streets to burn down American cites, engage in the odd mass shooting, and finally storm the Capitol on Jan 6th.
No, I've clearly (and unambiguously) stated that the Russians also heavily targeted Democrats and undecided voters (mainly Black Americans). I literally said as much in the post you're quoting here (that you obviously didn't read, likely because you're cooked into only seeing the world one way), and I'll do it again now:
When Russian agents used social media to sow chaos among the US electorate, they tried all kinds of tactics. They posed as leftwing social justice activists and rightwing defenders of the Confederate flag. They made memes, bought ads, shared fake news and posted opinions from fake users on all sides of hot-button American issues.But one theme dramatically outpaced the rest: race.According to two reports prepared for the US Senate intelligence committee, by far the “most prolific” efforts were made to target black Americans. According to one report, Russia’s Internet Research Agency “created an expansive cross-platform media mirage targeting the black community, which shared and cross-promoted authentic black media to create an immersive influence ecosystem”.Analysts found that Russians used social media “troll farms” to “confuse, distract, and ultimately discourage” black people from voting for Hillary Clinton. They aimed to do so by describing the Democratic candidate for president as too similar to the Republican, Donald Trump, or by using bogus claims such as Clinton accepting donations from the Ku Klux Klan.Over five years, such efforts were expansive: researchers reported 10.4 million tweets, 1,107 YouTube videos, 116,205 Instagram posts and 61,483 unique Facebook posts from Russian operatives. Much of the material was intended to inflame anger among black Americans about skewed rates of poverty, incarceration and the use of force by police and thereby, in the words of one report, to “divert their political energy away from established political institutions”.The Russians obviously view the USA as their greatest enemy and rival. They clearly do NOT want a strong USA; they want the USA fractured, divided, fighting among itself and out of world affairs, so Russia can do what she likes with impunity.
The Russians also pushed hard for a Trump Presidency.
Consider those two sentences above together for a second, and you'll understand why the Russians did what they did.
You can provide all the facts and reporting you want. Its no use.
Bostonian is a vibes based poster, nothing more. His feels are his version of reality. Bloke is still convinced that Democrats are worse than the GOP on voting rights coz they got someone struck off a ballot once - decades of confirmed GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression not a factor in his calculations. Democrats up there with the nazi party, coz they supported slavery 150 years ago. Probably more utter insanity I'm forgetting.
You can provide all the facts and reporting you want. Its no use.
Oh, a mere 50 years ago, my bad. And clearly Joe on the bussing issue = up there with the nazi party of Germany.I've asked for and not got a single bit of actual data that shows non red or blue voters were influenced by the ohmygherd Russians.
And there we go again.
150 years ago...
Joe Biden was against bussing in the 70s
Show us where the history books touched you.
Call it a hunch, but I bet you London to a Brick he literally knows (IRL) at least 1 person (usually a crazy Aunt) who runs around the place talking about 'Trump good, Putin good, save the children from the Paedos, vaccines bad, Ivermectin good, Hunter Bidens laptop, Biden/ Clinton bad, Pelosi bad, international banking cabals are trying to impose socialism on us'.
Heck, I'd bet my entire savings account that his Facebook feed is probably littered with s**t like that.
Equally, those same people he knows IRL couldnt tell you the first thing about Australian politics. They know Pelosi was the leader of the House of Reps in the USA, but couldnt name the Australian Speaker in Canberra, or (without looking it up) who the Governor General is, what color the seats on the Senate and the House are, or anything else.
Reason being is they've 'done their own research' online, been exposed to US centric misinformation, their computers (and the social media programs) algorithms have pushed certain information (and misinformation) on them, and next thing you know they're sitting there watching YouTube videos from 'influencers' pushing one side of the story getting further radicalized into US centric nonsense.
All thanks to the Russians.
And they're totally oblivious to what's going on.
Bostonian how was my hunch? Be honest now; you know at least one person IRL that matches that description (heck you know several online on this site alone).
Im on the money aren't I? You've literally seen the impact of online radicalization in your own real life, and yet you still deny that it occurred.
This is Australians mind you. The impact in the USA is much worse.
I've asked for and not got a single bit of actual data that shows non red or blue voters were influenced by the ohmygherd Russians.
And there we go again.
150 years ago...
Joe Biden was against bussing in the 70s
Show us where the history books touched you.
I don't know a single person like you have described.
You're such a bad faith poster.
Who uses language like "bad faith poster".
Not normal people.
Bullshit.
Does the fact you have to lie about it on the internet to a stranger bother you at all?
Australian Football - The Carlton bribery scandal of 1910
australianfootball.com
Carlton bribary scandal of 1910. I can't believe anyone still supports them after what they did.
Definitely worse than Jim Crow Laws and still impacting people today.
Lily-white movement - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The origins of how the Democrats and Republicans 'switched sides' and became the modern progressive and conservative parties, respectively. NB: The Simpsons reference Taft a few times in earlier episodes.
I don't think it's possible to have a rational conversation with anyone deluded enough to think that in the current election cycle Democrats are Conservatives and the Republicans are the Progressive party of the US.They didn't swap.
I mean... would you prefer "dishonest liar"? I'm cool with whatever.Who uses language like "bad faith poster".
Not normal people.
I mean... would you prefer "dishonest liar"? I'm cool with whatever.
Although I suppose there's always the possibility you truly do believe the s**t you post, that the Dems are worse than the GOP on voting/democracy coz they got someone removed from a ballot once, or Dems bad coz of their policies 50 or 150 years ago, and you just refuse to acknowledge any other data points. I guess in that case we'd just be back to garden variety "cooker".
I don't think it's possible to have a rational conversation with anyone deluded enough to think that in the current election cycle Democrats are Conservatives and the Republicans are the Progressive party of the US.
A real Lebbo - Submarine tunnels moment.
60 years agoThey didn't swap.
In 1964 when they voted for the Civil Rights Act in the Senate 78% of the no vote was Democrats.
In the House vote the no vote was 74% Democrat.
The 74 day filibuster was lead by Southern Democrats.
Does that surprise you that it was the Democrats who voted the majority against it?
Strong rebuttal here, compelling fact-based argumentYou're triggered as all *
60 years ago
Yep this is definitely a reason why the democrats suck currently, going well mate.
Strong rebuttal here, compelling fact-based argument
No bullshit.