Russia had N O T H I N G to do with what happened in Charlottesville. I have seen the perpetrators with my own eyes, been inside their organizing circles, exposed them, and more. Not one trace of Russian involvement.https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1028375273757188097 …
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It really doesn’t matter if you lost every single person there and they aren’t Russian. That is not evidence that Russia had nothing to do with it.
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The way that burden of proof works is the claim has to be backed with evidence, and there is no evidence that Russia had any influence on the organizing or violence, as suggested by the tweet. It is uncontested that they posted about it on social media, but no proof of causality.
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And that tweet in particular seems to take things even further by claiming Russians "contributed" to the violence. Even Garrett didn't say that.
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It’s just like the suggestion that vote totals were changed. Zero evidence, even though it’s well within the scope of possibility
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Yes, exactly. I think people hear "there's no evidence that it happened" as "we *know* it didn't happen", which are obviously quite different statements with very different implications.
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But you could have a really interesting discussion about how culture functions, and why these sorts of things weren't commonplace a decade ago. I don't believe there are suddenly a bunch of new racists.
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But I’m talking about UTR specifically, and that is an entirely separate topic
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I would say mostly separate, rather than entirely separate. It's unreasonable to blame any specific incident of weather on global climate change, but I do think it is reasonable to segue from weather discussions into climate change discussions.
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