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This is where the danger occurs. When sinister people conflate a hoard of bots as their "silent majority."

notyourday 9y ago
Bots did not vote. People did. And they trounced democrat machine, including the democrat digital operation ( staffed by people who worked/used to work for Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, etc ). All talks about "Hillary got more in popular vote" is akin to talking that the fat slob should have won against the MMA fighter quarter of his weight had the rules been about weight competition and not about dropping the opponent.
- FilterSweep 9y ago
  We don't know if bots did take part in US elections or not. Electronic machines can be hacked. [0][1] [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/days-after-activists-sued-georgias-election-server-was-wiped-clean/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/days-after-activ... [1] http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532824432/if-voting-machines-were-hacked-would-anyone-know http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532824432/if-voting-machines-w...
  - notyourday 9y ago
    Occam's razor makes it much more likely that the basket of deplorables gave a middle finger to the clueless elites.
  - PeachPlum 9y ago
    There is a reason The Donald is/was calling for paper ballots, Voter ID and no-electronic voting Smartmatic manufactures the voting machines used in 16 states last November. The Chairman of Smartmatic, Mark Malloch-Brown, is on the board of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. It is not hacking by Russians that is the threat. Think what you like about Soros but having major Democrat donors running the electronic voting system is asking for trouble, be it real or manufactured.
  - makomk 9y ago
    Before Trump won, the idea that the voting machines could be hacked was - if you were to believe the media - a Trumpian conspiracy theory, one of his "alternative facts" that were really just lies made up to deceive clueless rubes. It's amazing how fast that changed last November and how little evidence this required.
    - dragonwriter 9y ago
      > Before Trump won, the idea that the voting machines could be hacked was - if you were to believe the media - a Trumpian conspiracy theory No, it was well-documented fact long before Trump was even considered a candidate aside from his abortive 2000 Reform Party effort, that came to light particularly around the 2004 election and has been intermittently in the news since. What was (correctly) viewed as a Trump camp conspiracy theory was that there was a massive conspiracy to illegally deny him an election win, including by hacking voting machines, not the idea that it was possible to hack voting machines.
      - makomk 9y ago
        The key word there is that it was well documented before Trump ran. After he did run and the idea that voting machines could be hacked became associated with Trump and his supporters, the media tried to convince people that actually it was basically impossible to do so through articles like https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rigging-presidential-election/ https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rig... (Also, you might want to think about which party won the 2004 presidential election in which voting machine hacking became seen as a major issue, and why it's the same party whose victory in the 2016 presidential election caused it to again be seen as a major issue.)

Bots did not vote. People did. And they trounced democrat machine, including the democrat digital operation ( staffed by people who worked/used to work for Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, etc ). All talks about "Hillary got more in popular vote" is akin to talking that the fat slob should have won against the MMA fighter quarter of his weight had the rules been about weight competition and not about dropping the opponent.

FilterSweep 9y ago
We don't know if bots did take part in US elections or not. Electronic machines can be hacked. [0][1] [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/days-after-activists-sued-georgias-election-server-was-wiped-clean/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/days-after-activ... [1] http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532824432/if-voting-machines-were-hacked-would-anyone-know http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532824432/if-voting-machines-w...
- notyourday 9y ago
  Occam's razor makes it much more likely that the basket of deplorables gave a middle finger to the clueless elites.
- PeachPlum 9y ago
  There is a reason The Donald is/was calling for paper ballots, Voter ID and no-electronic voting Smartmatic manufactures the voting machines used in 16 states last November. The Chairman of Smartmatic, Mark Malloch-Brown, is on the board of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. It is not hacking by Russians that is the threat. Think what you like about Soros but having major Democrat donors running the electronic voting system is asking for trouble, be it real or manufactured.
- makomk 9y ago
  Before Trump won, the idea that the voting machines could be hacked was - if you were to believe the media - a Trumpian conspiracy theory, one of his "alternative facts" that were really just lies made up to deceive clueless rubes. It's amazing how fast that changed last November and how little evidence this required.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    > Before Trump won, the idea that the voting machines could be hacked was - if you were to believe the media - a Trumpian conspiracy theory No, it was well-documented fact long before Trump was even considered a candidate aside from his abortive 2000 Reform Party effort, that came to light particularly around the 2004 election and has been intermittently in the news since. What was (correctly) viewed as a Trump camp conspiracy theory was that there was a massive conspiracy to illegally deny him an election win, including by hacking voting machines, not the idea that it was possible to hack voting machines.
    - makomk 9y ago
      The key word there is that it was well documented before Trump ran. After he did run and the idea that voting machines could be hacked became associated with Trump and his supporters, the media tried to convince people that actually it was basically impossible to do so through articles like https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rigging-presidential-election/ https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rig... (Also, you might want to think about which party won the 2004 presidential election in which voting machine hacking became seen as a major issue, and why it's the same party whose victory in the 2016 presidential election caused it to again be seen as a major issue.)