Brackite wrote:The Electoral College is more to blame than Russia on why we got Trump as President. Our country should have gotten rid of the Electoral College many years ago.
Russian-linked automated Twitter accounts, or bots, retweeted Donald Trump almost half a million times in the final weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Twitter told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The 50,000 automated accounts the company determined had ties to Russia sent more than 2 million election-related tweets between September 1 and November 15, 2016.
Once you concede the fact Russia wanted Trump in the White House it's pretty much turtles all the way down. I've posted this before but it's worth a read if you haven't done so yet:
If you read the entirety of the wiki article (and do a bit of research) you'll see they're pretty much following like a playbook.
This should cause you significant concern not only tactically, but strategically when it comes to geopolitics, population pressures, and resources.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
moksha wrote:We helped put puppet dictators in office in other countries because they were U.S. friendly. That is essentially what Russia did, but it worse since it was Russia screwing with our political process.
Interesting. I admit I am very ignorant on the topic
moksha wrote:We helped put puppet dictators in office in other countries because they were U.S. friendly. That is essentially what Russia did, but it worse since it was Russia screwing with our political process.
Interesting. I admit I am very ignorant on the topic
Saldvador Allende and Mohammed Mosaddegh, two name two. Mohammed Mosaddegh we replaced with the Shah and Allende was overthrown by Pinochet. During the cold war, especially when Allen and John Foster Dulles were running the CIA and the State Department, there was a lot of action in opposition to worldwide communism. Anyone who has socialist leaning could be considered a fair target for a coup.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
Yeah, we literally trolled the Iranian people just like the Russians trolled us. The only difference, of course, is our trolling cost the Iranians around 30,000 lives. It was absolutely disgusting what we did to them. And I believe this one was actually over oil, too.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Brackite wrote:The Electoral College is more to blame than Russia on why we got Trump as President. Our country should have gotten rid of the Electoral College many years ago.
Well, that's just stupid.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
moksha wrote:We helped put puppet dictators in office in other countries because they were U.S. friendly. That is essentially what Russia did, but it worse since it was Russia screwing with our political process.
Interesting. I admit I am very ignorant on the topic
Thank goodness you have a strong opinion on the matter.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
karl61 wrote:They say that they tried to influence the recent election. The only problem is the United States has a long history of influencing elections in other countries. If the United States thinks this is a bad thing then stop doing it to other countries.
Living in a country that's messed with other countries doesn't prevent one from thinking it's wrong and being especially pissed when it happens to us and we end up with a cheeto dictator.
How else do we change that without making it a big deal?
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Some Schmo wrote:Living in a country that's messed with other countries doesn't prevent one from thinking it's wrong and being especially pissed when it happens to us and we end up with a cheeto dictator.
No, that doesn't prevent people from being stupid, but it should. Thinking it's wrong only when it "happens to me" is why you ignorant on the topic.
Some Schmo wrote:How else do we change that without making it a big deal?
You won't be able to change anything, because you are the problem. Your ignorance is an obstacle to maturity and why you insist that Trump be scapegoats to ease your conscience for suddenly being exposed as a blissful idiot on the workings of your own government.
(e.g. your cowardice for having posters on ignore)
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
karl61 wrote:They say that they tried to influence the recent election. The only problem is the United States has a long history of influencing elections in other countries. If the United States thinks this is a bad thing then stop doing it to other countries.
It is possible to believe both are a big deal.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775