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Originally Posted by redbuck
This might have been addressed, but I'll say it anyway:
The Russians tried to influence the election - so what. (Haven't we (USA#1) done this countless times?)
I wasn't influenced by the Russians, were you?
you should be upset someone attacked our country. real Americans are upset a foreign power ATTACKED our institutions. i don't care what we have done or what everyone probably does. Americans should not settle for whelp! happened to us, nothing to be done, lets put our heads in the sand like the right has been suggesting. but sadly a subset of the country doesn't care that another country got the best of us because it helped their private agenda of enriching the upper class and ****ting on poor and minorities. what happened to the right's AMERICA FIRST crap, when you dont even want to protect the actual country from a foreign power.
even if we just limit the influence to fake facebook posts/memes and the like, which is definitely not the only interference. just because you believe you weren't influenced which im not willing to rule out, you dont think anyone was influenced??
you realize that advertising is a 200 billion dollar a year industry just in the USA, if no one is ever influenced by this stuff why are companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year to do it? oh, its probably because people by and large are actually influenced by it. and some people probably believe every conspiratard meme they get about benghazi and seth rich.
i mean half of republicans think that their candidates are going to actually help their healthcare needs when the candidates routinely vote to cut all of it as soon as they get in.. false advertising works.