One is a foreign power attempting to destabilize the US government, and the other is an admin changing a comment as a joke?
Sure, in another universe where we didn't already know this stuff is a coordinated effort to destabilize our political system...
Yes, no one denied that. Its part of the equation, the russians are doing it yes, but so is everyone else (the US especially)... Im am pretty sure there are even assets in the services of Luxembourg, that have this task. It has been done in the past and will be done in the times to come. Disinfo campaigns are only a media topic right now, not because they are targeting the US (this has been done before), but because they are somewhat successful.
>> which is a hostile.action
Oh please, don't overreact. These campaigns are mean, divisive and unfair, but in the end they are -- in essence -- just words. Escalating them to a level of bellicosity is neither nessesary nor merited.
>> How successful they have been is incredibly difficult to measure, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem.
They are somewhat successful (not utterly of course), because there are wide fracture lines in the US society, that are not getting enough attention. If less people would feel disenfranchised and unrepresented -- left and right, native and immigrant, black and white -- These campaigns wouldn't be very effective.
It's certainly interesting that the number of Russians discovering r/funny increased by an order of magnitude in the run up to the election. And that Putin found r/gifs so entertaining that he hired thousands of Russians to post on it and similar places. Don't you think?
So in conclusion the only dangerous thing in that election is the fact that Trump could be blackmailed. And Hillary can't be blackmailed?
Hilarious.
-- thanks for the downvotes.
Out of all those 17, the biggest idiot won, and now you want to take away the best excuse for this fracas that the elites have come up with?
I think the fact that the orange one is an idiot is pretty dangerous in and of itself, completely independent of however easy he is to be manipulated.