• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    It's worth noting that this didn't just happen organically. The democrats in US cultivated the whole Russiagate conspiracy theory to explain why Clinton lost to Trump back in 2016. Associating Russia with Trump was a brilliant move because Trump is so deeply hated by the democrat base, and this hatred was easily transplanted onto Russia by association. Thanks to the whole Mueller report, we now know that this was complete nonsense. Jacobin did some good reporting on it, but this didn't really get much coverage in the mainstream.

    • https://jacobin.com/2020/04/russiagate-christopher-steele-dossier-trump-election
    • https://jacobin.com/2019/03/russiagate-donald-trump-mueller-report
    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      Definitely saving this the next time an obnoxious lib sends me an article "proving" Russian interference.

    • comhelio@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Also Aaron mate and Max blumenthal did good reporting on it. Russia hacking US election . lol

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        I just love how people genuinely believe that spending few hundred thousand on Fb ads tilted an election campaign parties poured billions of dollars into. It's also funny how this whole election interference logic is never applied to Israel. If libs are so upset about Russian interference than why do they never have anything to say about the fact that Israel has an incredible amount of influence over their political system.

    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      The democrats saw the republicans get all crazy with their Qanon and got jalous so they made their own deep state new world order conspiracy theory.