Like 2 peas in a fucking pod. Bigly depressing.

[Soph0571]

Heh. I see your right wing and raise you.... wankers the lot of them

[Nitram]

1. It's quite clear by now that the two were part of a larger conspiracy.

What is dismaying is how successful they were. Where were the FBI, CIA, NSA, NDA and their counterparts in Britain?

[Cosmocat]

4. Russia

Putin is using the DEFCON 1 stupid in our populations to do what Napoleon couldn't do ...

[Nitram]

7. The irony is we've been doing the same in other countries to influence elections for a century.

But we were confined to newspapers and print media. Putin used social media to take disinformation to a whole new level and powerfully influenced two huge votes.

[Cosmocat]

10. YEP

We rat fucked a lot of governments in our time for sure.

But, as you noted, the use of social media is the equivalent of injecting heroin into people, it is a direct line into their blood stream and overtakes them ...

[erronis]

12. You know, it's sort of ironic: The USofA is really the inventor of social media

and the means to spread (dis)information. And it is being turned against us. Who woulda thought? We're consistently suffering from "unintended consequences."

McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage

[Nitram]

14. We in the US were probably more susceptible to the manipulation of social media because

we took for granted that it was "just harmless" social media. We invented it, so we were not aware of its other more nefarious possibilities.

[woundedkarma]

11. this was clear ages ago... at least to me.

don't forget to add in syria.

[pazzyanne]

2. There is no doubt left for thoughtful people everyone who have been paying attention.

I knew who tRump was before he came down the escalator. I just didn't know how deep his corruption went. Boy, do I now!

[Cosmocat]

5. DITTO

I use the same phrase about coming down the elevator,

I know he is a psychopath, and even knew he was russia dirty from his Casinos ... I told people that day, he was no joke, that he was a very real threat to win the nomination because he was what the republican party was devolving into, and that if he did, this country was absolutely stupid enough to make him POTUS.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. If people don't know, it was Cadwalladr who exposed the Cambridge Analytica story

for which she won the Orwell Prize for Journalism:

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/observers-carole-cadwalladr-wins-orwell-prize-for-journalism-for-cambridge-analytica-data-investigation/

so she knows what she's talking about.

[Honeycombe8]

6. This is very upsetting. nt

[DemoTex]

8. The Wrecking Crew

Sad.

[world wide wally]

9. After years of espionage and military threats, Russia realized that American democracy

was too strong to defeat as a coherent unit, but one person (the President) could go a long way in destroying us. If that person was despicable enough and weak enough. Enter greedy billionaire, Donald whatever his name is, and Presto! Russia wins without breaking a sweat.

[erronis]

13. Great analysis. nt