Babe wake up, RuZZia took out $15,000 worth of ads on facebook and stole the election again.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 months ago

      Neoliberals fucked around for decades and now that we're going to die from climate change soon it's time to slap the barbarism button.

    • REgon [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      Russian election interference is actually just saying they did interference so liberals won't ever listen to anyone ever again

      What's the name for the "taleban chilling in a sofa" emoji?

  • blame [they/them]
    ·
    3 months ago

    Couple thoughts:

    1. As always this is fuckin rich coming from the Regime Change country
    2. US policy impacts literally everybody because the US can't fuckin mind their own business so in a pretty real sense the rest of the world should be allowed to vote in US elections.
    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      3 months ago

      When the Republican candidate wins: It's because Russian bots interfered in the elections

      When the Democratic candidate wins: It's because Chinese bots interfered in the elections

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
      ·
      3 months ago

      They probably will at some point. They said China and Iran were interfering in 2020 and will probably add North Korea to the list.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    "We lost because of social media interference, not because our candidate has the charisma of a bowl of oatmeal and has pledged to continue aiding a genocide that 80% of our voters want us to stop"

    • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
      ·
      3 months ago

      Somehow the Russian propagandists got Kopmala to spread their misinformation, because I decided I wouldn't vote for her during the DNC speech based on words out of her own mouth

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Did I just wake up in 2020 again? What's next? Are they accusing Chinese bots for ruining their breakfast?

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 months ago

      Are they accusing Chinese bots for ruining their breakfast?

      Funny you should say, CNN was saying China and Iran are deploying bots rn.

      • batsforpeace [any, any]
        ·
        3 months ago

        the usual gang is back just in time huh, and the 'Jill Stein Russian asset' bit too

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        I would be more surprised if they weren't. I would be especially surprised of there was even a single country that didn't use bots to try and interfere with US elections. Why wouldn't they? This is like sabotage 101.

        What I do find frustrating is how we pay the CIA and FBI bazillions of dollars each year to stop things like this, but instead they use the funding to smuggle heroin or some shit. And instead of reporting on how alphabet agencies have zero accountability and do heinous shit, the focus is on something that may as well be "China is breathing air!"

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
          ·
          3 months ago

          If they policed that and created a precedent then they might no longer be able to do it themselves as easily

      • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Sometimes I really hate myself that I joking predict something like this in my head while cooking and shit and comes true.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Ex-aide to NY Gov. Hochul charged as Chinese agent

      While working in state government, Sun allegedly blocked representatives of the Taiwanese government from meeting with officials, and allegedly sought to arrange for a high-level New York state official to visit China.

      liberty-weeping which is apparently "a threat to our national security."....glasses-on Threat to weapons contrators profits.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
      ·
      3 months ago

      I'm just waiting for the democrats to suddenly become very concerned about the MIGRANT CONVOYS the republicans usually trot out every four years

      • heggs_bayer
        ·
        3 months ago

        Judging by the fact that the HarriSS campaign is releasing attack ads harping on how Trump shot down a border security bill, they are already concerned about it.

  • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
    ·
    3 months ago

    Liberals always fail to explain how Russia paying companies to push a message is more Russian influence than, idk, the influence of those fucking companies they're paying. IT'S ALMOST LIKE CAPITALISM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH DEMOCRACY, WHICH FUCKING ALBERT FUCKING EINSTEIN STATED IN SUCH SUCCINCT TERMS A FUCKING BABY COULD UNDERSTAND IT, LIKE 100 YEARS AGO

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
      ·
      3 months ago

      It did though

      Every fucking liberal still believes, to their core, in the existence of a vast warehouse full of Russian agents posting anti-Democrat agitprop in support of Trump. Everything negative in the West is now a Russian psyop according to liberals: independence movements, pro-Palestinian movements, any form of fascism is funded by Russia, etc

      There was never any proof posted and yet this fucking idea scrawled onto the back of some Langley lanyard's napkin at lunch became the guiding principle by which all liberals have spent the last 8 years living

      • Dickey_Butts [none/use name]
        ·
        3 months ago

        Unfortunately I agree. It did seem to work very well. Libs in my family that know literally nothing about Russia are convinced that Putin is out to get them.

      • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
        ·
        3 months ago

        When I was telling my Blue MAGA friend I would never vote for Biden and he needed to step down (jokes on them, I won't vote for Kopmala either), he accused me and my wife of basically buying into Russian propaganda...like bro, all I did was watch the debate and watch this corpse of a man cling to power, no Russians involved.

        I guess now I have fallen for even more Russian propaganda, such as the very words that came out of Kopmala's mouth (frack more, make our military more lethal, palestinians are r**ists)

        • jackmarxist [any]
          ·
          3 months ago

          I have started calling Biden a Russian agent and say that he is using advanced Russian reverse psychology to manipulate Patriotic Americans to vote for Kamala.

      • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
        ·
        3 months ago

        I always find funny when something happens and someone quickly go: Russian hackers/Russian bots.

        Sometimes Putin is a incompetent moron and sometimes he is god who can shape the entire internet? Come on.

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
          ·
          3 months ago

          the cornerstone of western civilization

          my enemy is weak and dumb but also Machiavellian and dangerous

      • somename [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        The liberals saw QAnon, and how it warped the Republican party, and thought, "Hey, we need some of that on our side."

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        edit-2
        3 months ago

        But didn't they lose the election to Trump when they went so hard on the Russia stuff in 2016? This stuff sounds like it only works on true believer libs.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
            ·
            3 months ago

            Yes that one. I still find it wild that in 1/3 of US elections in the 21st century, the candidate with less votes won. So much for the "freedom and democracy" that the US likes to preach about...

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          edit-2
          3 months ago

          The Russia stuff didn't really take off until after the Democrats blew it. Its purpose was not to get out the vote, but to blame everything on forces beyond their control and prevent the Democratic Party from being justifiably decapitated by its constituents. In the end, it worked. They lost to Donald fucking Trump and all of them got to keep their jobs.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        There was never any proof posted

        IIRC there was some proof it's just that the "interference" had all the sophistication of a facebook page called "Blacks 4 Trump" with 20 followers. The exact same thing was done with far more skill by the UK-based private company Cambridge Analytica but for some reason we never hear about the british interfering in our sham elections.

        • Ildsaye [they/them]
          ·
          3 months ago

          IIRC there was some proof it's just that the "interference" had all the sophistication of a facebook page called "Blacks 4 Trump" with 20 followers.

          We are decades behind the ruskies in the efficiency of our psyops scared

          The exact same thing was done with far more skill by the UK-based private company Cambridge Analytica but for some reason we never hear about the british interfering in our sham elections.

          :george-iii-shining:

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
        ·
        3 months ago

        Not just 'lib' libs either. Just about anyone in the Anglosphere will believe anything about russiachina.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Like others have said it works and still works, this will be the go-to for however little time we have left until collapse to explain why either party loses.

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
    ·
    3 months ago

    Since it’s the second time it seems to happen, it sounds like it’s incompetence from natsec

  • kittin [he/him]
    ·
    3 months ago

    Russia convincing the teens to support Palestine would mean Russia is far cooler than it is

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
    ·
    3 months ago

    Putin and Elon were on the internet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

  • Adkml [he/him]
    ·
    3 months ago

    Doesn't really speak well to their belief in their ability to win.

    Also blue Maga, this sure reads an awful lotnlike Trump saying the only way he loses is if dems cheat months ahead of the election.