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> enabling people here to circumvent the rule of law and effectively stage a coup that destroys our functioning democracy. You mean like the US has done on a r
by tchaffee 8y ago
> enabling people here to circumvent the rule of law and effectively stage a coup that destroys our functioning democracy.
You mean like the US has done on a regular basis in the past five decades? I'm not in favor of what Russia is doing. I am surprised it has taken this long for it to happen to the US considering its own terrible and decades long record on illegal interference with functioning democracies, when it suits its own goals.
- war1025 8y agoWho Rules the World by Noam Chomsky was an interesting read on this matter [1]. I happened to read it during the 2016 election cycle. When all this Russia junk started up, I had a hard time feeling too worked up about it. Someone else doing exactly what we have always done and continue to do. Shocking. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28514478-who-rules-the-world https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28514478-who-rules-the-w...
- classicsnoot 8y agoI am not surprised that people think this is new. Open source Intel, counterintel, and subversion SOP is to use media to find the pulse as well as set the tone of a society. The idea that evil Russians despoiled a pristine US media environment is laughable. The only reason this is a big deal at all is that the status quo kingmakers got pwnd in 2016 by internet trolls. They can't handle the fact that memes and propaganda destroyed their billion dollar consent manufactory so easily, so it obviously has to be "hackers" and the death of democracy ala cold war hegemonic struggle. I have yet to have it coherently and completely explained to me how the Russians "hacked" the election. Everything I've read is long on exclamation and short on facts. Is running disingenuous ads and starting Facebook groups really hacking?