This narrative of an omnipotent, omniscient mastermind engineering things for decades is just wrong and harmful. It creates unnecessary defeatism, and it's not what happened. The problems are homegrown. The reach of the meddling is a symptom of how real the homegrown issues are.
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Ok but so what? One twenty-something so blazingly obvious—shirtless Putin phone case!!!—with a predilection for vodka shots (student in new country!) playing spy is... irrelevant. Need to uncover meddling and corruption without losing sense of proportion.https://twitter.com/postroz/status/1022084142526291968 …
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Long before the indictment, I joined the info-security community in pointing out how obvious the RU meddling was. The evidence is, and has been, in plain sight. The reason the evidence isn’t enough is that the politics is broken. That the politics is broken is the key issue.
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Because someone is skimming the cream (and 60% of the milk).
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There is a tremendous mountain to climb. Rich own elections now. Until lobbying is illegal, $$$ win everything in the US. Murdoch et al have polarised politics to such a degree that truth doesn't matter and volume does. Education and truer democracy needed.
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Clearly they needed our societal ills to be effective but I think we will find that their interference in the 2016 election was much more serious than the term meddling denotes.
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you forgot Trump
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RU has weaponized those weaknesses and errors and has incorporated them into its active measures campaign, which especially appeals to progressives who are rightly critical of American foreign policy & military blunders.
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Yet again. If the U.S. didn't suck in the first place. Russia would have nothing to exploit now would they.
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Russian meddling is real, but Russia didn't force US into the Iraq war, 2008 crisis, inequality, the rich fleeing taxes, monopolies, no accountability for the powerful.. Address those, and rest is a footnote.