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Russian-funded Facebook ads backed Stein, Sanders and Trump
- Thread starter Cerium
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Many on the far left do not see Russia as a threat and are generally pacifist, thinking they can deal with Russia's influence/expansion via diplomacy and complacency, it is one of main issues of the left that I do not like.
googleplex
Member
Its way more dangerous to shift the blame from white america that voted for a person that ran specifically on a white nationalist platform. Even worse, the people that chose to sit this selection out or protest vote while a openly racist candidate was running.
Sorry but White America takes the blame for this one.
Jill Stein is an opportunistic grifter. She is not a far lefty, she just knows how to make money off them. (See: her deliberately softening her stance against antivaxxers)
You'd think civilization would teach people what happens to pacifists.
I will read about it, but many on the left are also full with anti-science belief..
EDIT: Look at every GMO related thread.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
I mean, everyone else in the world can agree Hillary is the better choice except huge number of Americans, maybe that's the problem right there.
Laieon
Member
I AM a Bernie supporter (ended up voting for Hillary when it mattered, but she definitely wasn't my first choice) and I'm not surprised by this either.
I remember reading these last year... seriously when is the movie or documentary coming out? Or are they waiting for the ending. D:
how could Russia be so successful at this? It blows my mind. Like they must've done some serious research for a long time to get an idea of how a certain percentage of american minds work.
Lots of money, time, and resources. I wouldn't be surprised if this has been in the works for over a decade.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Likely they had help from inside the US on targeting and conforming the message to be as effective as possible.
Muppet of a Man
Member
Some might even say since 1997.
AstroNut325
Member
Not really, there are very (relatively) inexpensive ways of analyzing people and what makes them tick, change minds, vote, ect. Here's a brief on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc
boiled goose
good with gravy
You want war with russia?
(Sanctions are part of diplomacy)
More Sanders voters voted for Hillary than Hillary voters did for Obama in 08 so it clearly didn't work that much.
What it did do was perpetuate some weird myth in places like neogaf that Sanders voters supported Trump. It never made sense. .
madstarr12
Member
Its interesting how that works. The rest of the world was able to see reason, while many US Citizens drowned in their emotions and selfishness.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Give me a fucking break. This wasn't about being scared of WW3. It was about the oligarchy losing money due to sanctions. This is the kind of propaganda that we're talking about right here. They feed the gullible far left this drivel about how scared and threatened they are and they just do all these things to "protect" themselves.
llien
Member
Bernie Sanders was the best choice.
But there are good reasons people outside US cannot vote on US elections... =)
Well, what do you think the alternative is? Declaring war on a nuclear power?
She didn't go to the rust belt, so solely or not, Mrs. Clinton still deserves a lot of the blame with her lost.
It reminds me of Al Gore losing his home state of Tennessee in 2000.
I figured you all would misunderstand that part. I said via diplomatically and complacency. The issue with leftist in U.S and in Europe is they believe Russia can be dealt with on a diplomatic stage. Issue with that, is it tend to take a ridiculously long amount of time. Also Russia wants its past influence and glory back. Real sanctions against Russia would also hurt the EU (already is), so pressure will at some point form, to release the sanctions.
Obviously U.S and Russia can not directly engage one another, that is why they arm the opposition of one another.
Basically I do not like pacifism because often intervention comes too late when there is already a large death toll. WW2 and the Syrian Civil War are examples of this.
The Obama administration had done everything it can do already with economic sanctions. They can't do anything short of war, provoking war/conflict, or a useless proxy war type situation.
llien
Member
The proxy is already there with Ukraine. Western coup and now Russian invasion and sabotage (all those weapon silos suddenly going up in flames).
jakonovski
Member
Smart of Russians to target everything except pro-Clinton. Increases the chances of purges within the American progressive movement and thus more political dysfunction.
Acerac
Banned
I'd have to imagine that most other countries weren't being attacked by Russians attempting to misinform the public on this particular issue.
The peregruzka thing is unrelated.
And they did pretty much everything they could do within their capabilities. Not like they can force the country to collapse or something. Russia is a superpower. Putin toughed out the sanctions and economic warfare to show that Russia was independent, and he won the chess game. I think if Obama could've done something, he would've done it long ago. I mean, he basically hated Putin:
Ummmm, I doubt Stein had anything to do with this. Russia just wants to divide in whatever way possible.
Or, as a Trump supporter, you could just about face and start loving Russia right after you despised them, because you're hypocritical idiot garbage.
madstarr12
Member
Thats true, but I'm sure there were plenty of people with resources to look things up to see if things are true or not, likely stayed home or voted 3rd party in states that mattered. I was exposed to such material on social media, I've seen the ads against Hillary and the pages on Facebook that were specifically designed to make her appear like a monster, and I still voted for her. There really is no excusing these people, especially the young people who could have made a difference.
KernelPanic
Member
Russia will support any movement that will cause division and chaos.
Isn't saying "Russian funded" very misleading?
Just because a Russian bot company pushed the stories it doesn't mean it was "Russian funded"...it could have been paid for by anyone.You need to see the companies business records to see who paid them to push the news on social media to be able to determine who funded the ads.
For all we know it could have been Republicans, info wars..simply an anti-Clinton American who paid a Russian bot company.
I could pay $40 today to get a Russian bot company to retweet a story 10,000 times on twitter on my behalf...but that would be British funded not Russian funded as I'm from the UK.
Just because a Russian bot company pushed the stories it doesn't mean it was "Russian funded"...it could have been paid for by anyone.You need to see the companies business records to see who paid them to push the news on social media to be able to determine who funded the ads.
For all we know it could have been Republicans, info wars..simply an anti-Clinton American who paid a Russian bot company.
I could pay $40 today to get a Russian bot company to retweet a story 10,000 times on twitter on my behalf...but that would be British funded not Russian funded as I'm from the UK.
ClosingADoor
Member
Sure... because that makes the most sense with all the smoke going around Russia with this election.
Well I'd like to be shown the actual fire, rather than just the smoke for once.
Smoke seems to be all we're getting...often because people seem so keen to believe it's fire that created it.
Countering one form of propaganda with another doesn't help get any actual truth.
Straw man much?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
There is a frustrating effort among some parts of the left to outright deny that Russia is in any way a thing to be concerned about because it conflicts with the narrative that Clinton lost entirely because she was a two-faced neoliberal shrew who didn't "represent the people"
No it's not. Mueller was able to get a search warrant for this stuff, which is the only reason why we know about it. For that he'd have had to convince a judge that it's relevant to the investigation.
You'll need another angle for that spin.
ClosingADoor
Member
There is an investigation going into Russian interference where this came up, this is not propaganda.
jakonovski
Member
Russian meddling, virulent racism and Democrat arrogance seems like a good trifecta for blame.
It's propaganda to claim it's "Russian funded"..
..if it's merely a Russian bot company that pushes stories on behalf of whoever pays them to do so.
It's factual in that case to say "A Russian bot company pushed pro-Sanders, Trump and Stein stories on facebook. It is not currently known who paid said company to push each of these stories.".
ClosingADoor
Member
It was Russia funded. The money paid to Facebook came from a Russian company. I don't know why you try to twist this into something else. It is not propaganda, please look up what propaganda actually is.
curiouscharles
Member
source of the notorious "bernie bro" confirmed!
Rubio was more of a conventional anti-russia republican who had a good chance of winning. Stein was pretty close to Russia. They probably just exploited Bernie voters because he was unlikely to win and it was a good way to increase divisiveness among democratic voters.
PuppetSlave
Member
соломенный человек comrade Taker. Get back to practicing and stop being so transparent. It is called having an motive. Apparently it is an vital part of investigations, who knew???
KernelPanic
Member
What makes you think they had to be paid by someone? Do you need to see a contract and a cheque made out to Russian troll farms signed by a V.Putin?
Manipulating elections to install a more favorable government isn't a new concept and is a payoff in itself anyway.
Russia wanted him to win. Various meetings with Trump campaign and Russian officials about sanctions and the Magnitsky, sudden pro Russia policy toward Ukraine. You must be living under a rock.
Signs point to a quid pro quo arrangement which is what the investigation is about among other things.
People have already corrected you about this and yet you determinedly ignore everything about the investigation and the search warrant.
Are they paying you in rubles to post this?
No..it was funded by whoever paid the Russian company to push the stories via facebook.
Now you could say "a Russian bot company paid for facebook ads while being funded by an unknown entity from an unknown country". ..
..but to say "Russian-funded facebook ads" is simply trying to push an agenda that puts "Russia" itself as the individual entity who funded said ads.
Here's the thing, it'd be illegal for a political organization to be funding a russian bot company for this. Most third party orgs also tend to do this stuff with their own name.
ClosingADoor
Member
It says right here in the article who paid for them.
You seem strangely hung up on this, while everything points in the direction of the Russians.
Would it? Is there a specific law?
In the UK there was a leadership challenge in the UK Labour party last year and it was trending on twitter along with the opponents hashtag..now it turned out most of those retweets/hashtags were not located in the UK but were coming from India and other countries in that area...so clearly someone in the UK, likely linked to the party, paid bot farms to get it trending.
Still..it wouldn't have to be a political organization who funded this. As I mentioned earlier, a quick google and you can see how you can pay $40 to get 10,000 retweets on twitter.