1. Is Russia meddling so serious that we need to launch a new Cold War?* *(spoiler alert: no)
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3. Building on
@henryfarrell & others, I argue that main problems of 2016 election are domestic rather than foreignhttps://newrepublic.com/article/147122/stop-inflating-russia-threat …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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gimme a break. why would this be the case? why does the FEC make foreign expendituers illegal if the system is supposed to be designed so they can't have an impact?
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this is the point that the “only
$xx was spent by XX people, that wouldn’t move the needle” people are totally missing. A cold can kill a sick person.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think using the word “hacked” is a problem because it conjures the spectre of voting machine fraud, which isn’t what happened.
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"crude memes and grifters" isn't an accurate description of what the indictment alleges
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Russia has been honing their skills undermining democracy in eastern europe. It goes way beyond simple propaganda.
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But that was true of Brexit as well. Also, Marie Antionette, Napoleon etc. People will believe bad things that sound like their own truths because it’s comforting The Daily Mail is the most read online source of news and so unreliable Wikipedia shuns it as a reliable source
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Was it though? The "experts" have been oddly silent in attempting to quantify the effect except to direly warn that "we don't know". Maybe we just have shitty politics and like to elect shitty leaders. Is that really a stretch?
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Is there a fix to half the electorate being so mentally malleable that they fall for easily disproven bullshit, to the point where they'd rather vote for a rabid baboon with uncontrollable diarrhea than risk the status quo? It took a generation of undermining to get us here.
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This isn't just about Russian troll-bots, it's about a culture of proud ignorance. Where simply being randomly angry is a substitue for objective reality, and the only diet your worldview permits are things that feed that anger.
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