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Well, when your dad is Prince Homeopathy, and a guy who has great quotes like as “the Westernized world has become far too firmly framed by a mechanistic approach to science.”, or whatever the hell that means (it's towards the last third of the article which details the general buffonery he's been known for for 45 years), then it really should come as a surprise if the Prince opens his mouth and says the kind of dumb shit that runs in his family.

Although.... he isn't wrong about social media, so, six of one half dozen of the other I guess.

Of all the news outlets that covered this story this weekend ... USA Today? Really? https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

Absolutely, especially since it was the Free Beacon - and NOT the GOP - that funded the initial research before the DNC and the Clinton campaign turned it up to 11. So let's take the Free Beacon, the DNC, and the entire Clinton campaign to task.

Oh, and while we're at it, let's not forget that all this happened during the Obama Administration, and most of the senior intelligence officials were aware of the Russian influence and just ignored it, let it continue (as long as they thought it benefited "their side"). So let's toss them, too!

But there's one group you won't be touching - the Trump campaign and Administration. It's been exonerated by the Mueller report.

At least check out Atul Gawande's books, and in particular the summary about the use of checklists in medical care. I recall one of the main SQLite developers saying he bought a copy of "The Checklist Manifesto" for all of his subordinates.

Just a perfectly innocent ongoing stream of repeated DNS lookups. No collusion!

https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

Ads are a blight on our cities. And even the countryside. Miles and miles of billboards along roads. It's disgusting.

From Ogden Nash, apparently 1932 https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.

The teachers will have automatic weapons with which to disable any attacker.

And in case of a problem with the armed teacher who is shooting the active shooter:

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nra-proposes-having-second-armed-teacher-in-every-classroom-to-stop-first-armed-teacher-from-misfiring

The actual floor debate you fall asleep to on C-SPAN is BS and a tiny part of the process

I disagree. The floor debate you fall asleep to on C-SPAN has nothing to do with the process. It's senators grandstanding to a camera, nothing more. To quote this New Yorker article...

In general, when senators give speeches on the floor, their colleagues aren’t around, and the two or three who might be present aren’t listening...The only people who pay attention to a speech are the Senate stenographers...The Senate chamber is an intimate room where men and women go to talk to themselves for the record.

Deals get cut in offices, legislation gets filtered by committee, votes get gathered by the whips, and nothing gets to the floor for a vote without party leader approval. Generally, the only time senators gather in the chamber is to conduct the vote. Once it's done, they vacate.

Personally, I think this process is one reason why government is so divided today. Our congressional leaders don't work together in the very chamber where they should be conducting business. There's no rapport, no discussion, no construction of trust necessary to build consensus. Since the vote is the only time -left- where they are required to gather together, I'd hate to see voting by proxy be allowed, further distancing one another apart from the process.

They are politicians. Talking on the record and to the public is a huge part of their job. You say their colleagues aren't listening, but everything they say will regularly be held against them by their opponents. Do you actually listen to C-SPAN?

I'd hate to see voting by proxy be allowed, further distancing one another apart from the process.

100% agree

The actual floor debate you fall asleep to on C-SPAN is BS and a tiny part of the process

I disagree. The floor debate you fall asleep to on C-SPAN has nothing to do with the process. It's senators grandstanding to a camera, nothing more. To quote this New Yorker article...

In general, when senators give speeches on the floor, their colleagues aren’t around, and the two or three who might be present aren’t listening...The only people who pay attention to a speech are the Senate stenographers...The Senate chamber is an intimate room where men and women go to talk to themselves for the record.

Deals get cut in offices, legislation gets filtered by committee, votes get gathered by the whips, and nothing gets to the floor for a vote without party leader approval. Generally, the only time senators gather in the chamber is to conduct the vote. Once it's done, they vacate.

Personally, I think this process is one reason why government is so divided today. Our congressional leaders don't work together in the very chamber where they should be conducting business. There's no rapport, no discussion, no construction of trust necessary to build consensus. Since the vote is the only time -left- where they are required to gather together, I'd hate to see voting by proxy be allowed, further distancing one another apart from the process.

Former ACLU legal director and Berkeley law professor John A. Powell recently told a reporter from the New Yorker that free speech rules in the United States fail to weigh the value of speech against the harms that speech can cause, and argued that we ought to regulate speech that can cause P.T.S.D. and "stereotype threat."

An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the âoeAmerican traditionâ of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.

It's a real problem and it's only getting worse.

We need al lot more Sheriff Taylors, a lost less Dirty Harrys, and a massive demilitarization of police forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Taylor_(The_Andy_Griffith_Show)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/do-not-resist-and-the-crisis-of-police-militarization

The ones with the guns (whether cop or civilian) should held to be held to a higher standard, not a lesser.
The extent and degree to which an officer can be immune from consequences for actions taken as part of official duties needs to be reconsidered.
WTF?!?!: Cop fired for not shooting armed suicidal suspect https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/us/wv-cop-fired-for-not-shooting--lawsuit/index.html

The police should be respected, not feared.
Respect must be earned.

The Thames Barrier has been closed 182 times since it became operational in 1982 (correct as of February 2018). Of these closures, 95 were to protect against tidal flooding

Sometimes they even close the barrier now at low tide to provide a place for excess rain to go because the rain plus higher tides would be flooding.

Sea level is rising and now rising faster than it has in 100s or 1000s of years.. That simply isn't in dispute.

Larger islands don't discount rising seas until they are overtopped. An island that's 1 foot above sea level can get larger with 6 inches of rise without shrinking - that doesn't mean there isn't a significant problem going forward.

Ah, the difference between 'I wish... ' and 'I would'.

I wish some laws reflected my faith, but I know that's actually not right. So I don't ask for legislation. And after all, Christianity doesn't rely on laws, but on repentance. Legislation solves nothing of faith.

It is possible that is true, but there certainly have been laws on the books in the US that are "faith based". Sunday shopping laws come to mind:

https://www.newyorker.com/busi...

When a politician says "I wish there was a law saying x-y-z", unless they immediately qualify the statement by saying "but I know that would be a bad law so I would never act to implement it" or something similar, I do think it is fair to worry that they might work to make it come to pass.

Yeah, I understand that statements on the campaign trail often come to naught, but to dismiss what a candidate says before the election seems stupid. If they say they want to do something stupid, immoral, or repugnant, maybe we shouldn't elect them, even if it seems unlikely that they would ever do that sort of thing.

Maybe if we had more ranked-choice ballots available, we would get better options and end up electing better candidates: https://www.fairvote.org/

Good point it was Bush, and that parasite Hank P. Obama just doubled down, on the stupid and made them build cars people would want even less.

No, it was primarily Bush.

The only problem with Biden’s history lesson is that the “man with steel in his spine” he referred to should have been George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. Lest we forget, it was Bush rather than Obama who initiated the government rescue of the auto companies.

https://www.newyorker.com/news...

The only thing Obama didn't do is step and and completely quash the bailout. Obama publicly supported the plan before he was elected, but the plan itself was the brainchild of the previous administration. An incoming president isn't going to kill a plan that's saving tens of thousands of American jobs. If you really blame Obama for that you aren't being honest with yourself.

Note the perspective of that article is that Biden is trying to give Obama undeserved credit for the bailout. It's actually an anti-Biden/Obama article.

Also, the bailout was a loan.
https://www.thebalance.com/aut...

You can see the fed invested ~$80B, and got back ~$70B... they lost ~$10B. Sure they lost, but it's not like this was some massive handout to GM with no strings attached. Honestly it seems like a pretty good gamble at the time considering what would be the impact to the US economy.

Here are some of the articles that talk about this:

https://www.newyorker.com/cult...
https://get.chownow.com/blog/restaurant-delivery-killing-restaurants

Trump's Lies

All False statements involving Donald Trump

Trump’s Lies Have Grown Far More Frequent—and More Dangerous

The 25 Worst Lies From Donald Trump’s First 200 Days

Donald Trump has said 3084 false things as U.S. president

How Trump Gets Away with Lying, as Explained by a Magician

The Other Side: President Trump’s lies a clear and present danger

Trump lies about having ‘no financial interests in Saudi Arabia’

Trump's Relentless Lying Threatens Our Democracy.

This Is as Obvious and Blatant a Presidential Lie as You're Going to See

It’s True: Trump Is Lying More, and He’s Doing It on Purpose

President Trump Made 1,950 Untrue Claims in 2017. That's Making His Job Harder

My first thought was this was just like the Uber car in Arizona, where the so-called "safety driver" was too busy staring at a screen to actually watch the road. But if you believe the original New Yorker article, this was even worse -- he may have actually been deliberately sitting there letting the situation play out for his benefit:

Levandowski, rather than being cowed by the incident, later defended it as an invaluable source of data, an opportunity to learn how to avoid similar mistakes . He sent colleagues an e-mail with video of the near-collision. Its subject line was “Prius vs. Camry.”

That's fairly disturbing if true.

You completely pwned that guy.

Fox "news" is never correct.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Ignore inconvenient news, including inconvenient photographs that show Saint Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus hang out with racist hate preachers. But here's the same story from the liberal New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/cult...

And by "hung out" you mean "taken a picture with once". Yeah.

Are you a useful idiot or just an apologist? This is not about "taking pictures", this is about seeking support and working with the Nation of Islam:

"Indeed, it's a sign of Farrakhan's oddly lasting hold on popular influence that he was even invited to clink drinks with the members of the C.B.C."

But his Farrakhan connections go way back.

And let's put this into perspective. Trump was raked over the coals by the national media because he didn't immediately disavow David Duke when a reporter mentioned that Duke supported him. Imagine if that photo was Trump with David Duke instead, surrounded by a bunch of Republican congressmen. The national media storm would have been immense, and it's a story even Trump would not have survived, let alone the congressmen.

Fox "news" is never correct.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Ignore inconvenient news, including inconvenient photographs that show Saint Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus hang out with racist hate preachers. But here's the same story from the liberal New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/cult...

"Russian Trolls" is code for "Straight white men".

No, it's not code at all. Russian trolls happen to be all straight white men because gays are fucking killed in Russia. So gay or not, you better present to the world as a straight white man in Russia, or you're in deep shit.

And if you're in Russia, where the average monthly income is $437, you better find some way to supplement your income, so yes, Russian trolls = straight white men.

https://www.newyorker.com/cult...

"He tells it like it is"

. Scratch a member of the DC establishment, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.

Be careful, when you scratch them, you might come away with a lot of orange fake tan under your fingernails:

"Trump said to a White House staff secretary, about the Attorney General, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. ... He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news...

To fix the problem, your statement would need to be "we want to find out why workers are afraid to acknowledge errors and fix the organizational culture so that errors can be acknowledged and fixed properly, rather than hidden."

As a Finn with a couple Russian friends who've left their country because of 'organisational culture' let me give you some perspective. This is Putin's ' Novorossiya' where transparency is nonexistent and those who fail to satisfy the powers that be are thrown into jail in the best case, get into mysterious accidents or commit 'suicides' in the worst case. The space program is a key component in the cold war (which never really ended, it's just changed its nature to be less about armed conflict and more about information warfare) propaganda just as it was in the past, and as such it is of great importance to Kremlin. Whoever made the mistake is not afraid of getting fired, because getting fired is the least of your concerns in this situation. If I were him, I'd already be on my way out of the country and never drink any tea I haven't prepared myself..

The problem is not the the organisational culture of Roscosmos, the problem is the organisational culture of the entire State Meet the new boss, same as the old boss:

"Enemies are right in front of you, you are at war with them, then you make an armistice with them, and all is clear. A traitor must be destroyed, crushed."
-Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in 2001, speaking to journalist Aleksei Venediktov, to whom he added “You know, Aleksei, you are not a traitor. You are an enemy.” (source: David Remnick, “Echo in the Dark,” in The New Yorker, September 22, 2008)

This is why seeing Trump act like Vlad's obedient little lapdog earlier in the summer here in Helsinki was one of the most absurd things I have ever witnessed in my life. Had you told me ten years ago that you're from the future where the fucking president of the US of A bows down to kiss the ring of Putin and call the European Union a foe, I'd have told you to go get your head checked. Yet here we are. My grandfather who's in his 80s said to me after the press conference that he thinks the Russians are winning, because 'one of the guys is a former KGB agent, and the other is a clueless goof.' Although grandpa is no political scientist, I have a hard time disagreeing with him here.

The Japanese devote a great deal of attention and concern to abiding conventions for social interaction. I believe it a weak claim (how would you ever test such a thing experimentally?) but there is a theory that the historical necessity for large-scale coordinated communal rice planting and harvesting exerted selective pressure for personality traits of conformism, cooperation and agreeableness. With more certainty, Japan is a substantially racially uniform culture, and there is loads of psychological and sociological evidence that racial diversity promotes social disharmony. About 98.5% of residents of Japan are ethnic Japanese. As the Japanese Government states: "...there are no issues of race relations among Japanese citizens as they are all of the same race". It's a little fishy because they include small domestic minorities such as the Ainu, but still those would not be substantial minorities if categorized out and to some degree they remain geographically isolated within Japan.

Regardless of the causes for it, Japanese society is extraordinarily and wonderfully polite, civil and organized. However, that has the trade-off that social norms become so suffocating that Japanese seek escape from social obligations and comfort in relationships in what seems to westerners, bizarre commercial services. Following the rules means that sometimes the best way to get what you want while staying in bounds is to purchase it.

Japan's Rent-a-Family Industry
How to Hire Fake Friends and Family
Rental family service

2) The social media sites have always pushed a liberal agenda.

People who excel at the use of language have always pushed a liberal agenda.

FTFY.

It's not a 100% correlation, but people who work primarily with the written word always lean to the left within their own political group.

Less use of the written word: resource sector jobs (agriculture, mining, forestry, fisheries), service jobs (front line), and joyous singalongs in giant barns with stained glass windows.

Just watch what happens when a Baton Rouge conservative acquires too much gift of gab:

Rod Dreher's Monastic Vision — May 2017

During one New Year's visit, Dreher made bouillabaisse for his parents and his sister; they watched him cook the stew and let him serve it, then declined to eat any: they preferred meals made by a "country cook."

I'm liberal, I guess, judging by how I read the whole damn thing—as I tend to do most of the time.

Why is Snowden — who we know to have given numerous secrets to Russia, and who is currently living in Russia — a hero to the same people, who denounce Trump as traitor because his son once met with a Russian lawyer?

Why is not Snowden ever portrayed performing oral sex on Putin?

Why is Snowden — who we know to have given numerous secrets to Russia, and who is currently living in Russia — a hero to the same people, who denounce Trump as traitor because his son once met with a Russian lawyer?

Why is not Snowden ever portrayed performing oral sex on Putin?

Cheer up, PopeRatzo.

You're right. There is much to be thankful for.

https://www.newyorker.com/humo...

“To make peace with an enemy,” he wrote, “one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one’s partner.”
--Barack Obama quoting Nelson Mandela the other day.

https://www.newyorker.com/news...

President Donald J Trump offered the North Koreans a terrific real estate deal. Gorgeous beachfront condos. Stunning golf courses.

And he offered to give Mike Pence to Kim Jong Un, as his personal manservant.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-agrees-to-let-kim-jong-un-have-pence-as-manservant

There was a great new yorker article about him and his "philosophies".

https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

like he sued the EPA 14 times before he became the administrator and plenty of other horrible industry funded activities. Literally the last and most corrupt and paranoid person you could get to run that agency...

Why casinos fail, for those incapable of recognizing that operating a casino is not a license to print money.

If someone only had a junk food diet of msm news, never dug up source material to see for themselves the very speeches of which Trump is so highly criticized for when defining all immigrants as "criminals" and "rapists" and "animals", then they might believe your point about fake news because they need to be told what to think.

"he's basically reinforcing the point until people believe it's true." is projection, from the paid trolls to the blue checkmarks alike. I know Trump lies, but his critics are proving to be even less trustworthy. The Time cover of crying girl fits the bill perfectly.

Nah, not really.

Liu Cixin is a poor writer with a limited imagination and knowledge regarding technology and ZERO understanding of even human psychology, let alone ability to imagine a properly alien one.
Also, when he DOES imagine something - he fails to connect the dots.

He imagines an alien race which can "unfold" a proton across 8 dimension, in order to create movable-at-speed-of-light proton-sized computer-robots which can block all particle research on Earth at will.
They can also create spaceships with which said race will invade Earth in 400 years.
Because their planet is doomed and they need breeding space.
Oh... and it's doomed because every random number of years the surface of their planet becomes unsustainable for life, so among other things, they've evolved the ability to hibernate for thousands of years.

So...
Not only is it a race with applied string-theory tech (basically magic), quantum-entanglement interstellar communication, spaceships which can reach another star in a reasonable time (and other even faster spaceships) AND biological hibernation... basically ideal explorer-colonist race... with magic tech...
But they can't dig holes. Or build orbital space stations.
Not even after seeing humans doing EXACTLY that.

On top of that... his outlook of life and geopolitics peaked at "doom and gloom world" and "mutually assured destruction".
And less is said about his "my perfect waifu database" ideas the better.

But he does have a lot of PR pushing him as the next Asimov or Clarke, which he is not in any shape or form.
It's almost as if there's something connecting his writing with aggressive marketing or a Chinese government program to promote science fiction.

This "summit" is a meeting between two puppets. Don't forgot that the KGB owned little Kim's father, and probably his grandfather, too. Whoever the KGB owned, he's now Putin's toy.

So what happens when two puppets play? In the few puppet plays I can remember, one of them beats up the other one. Suddenly this makes a lot of sense.

Puppeteer Putin make Trump puppet GREAT again! (First time was in 2016.)

Now a bit of satire for comic relief:
https://www.newyorker.com/humo...

See here. For an entirely new field of study that touches on particle physics that's not bad. Not everything has to turn a profit right the f now. If we ran things like that it would take centuries to get anything major done, which is exactly what was going on for the first several thousand years of human history.

If we can afford to spend $21 million on a single bomb to drop on Afghanistan to inaugurate President Trump we can spend some money on basic research.

So your argument in a nutshell:

1. Pilots are highly trained. Agree.

2. Because pilots are highly trained, they understand what an "autopilot" will and will not do for them. Generally agree, though there are of course exceptions.

3. American drivers are not highly trained, and therefore don't generally understand what an "autopilot" will or will not do for them. Agree.

4. Thus, there's no harm in a car manufacturer naming a highly limited driver assistance system "autopilot," and any overestimation of its capabilities by drivers based on that name is their own damn fault. Huh, what?

Or, it's clear to most thinking mammals, and I'm including whales, dolphins, and at least one spider that new tech autopilot isn't yet the you don't have to pay attention driving mode.

Maybe the Tesla autopilot feature is just designed to cull out some of the stupid money.

It can't have escaped your home page that really dumb people can inexplicably have lots of money. It's bad enough that the rich intelligent people get to make policy for the rest of us. It's downright intolerable when the wealthy with IQ's south of room temperature get to do so.

So your argument in a nutshell:

1. Pilots are highly trained.
Agree.

2. Because pilots are highly trained, they understand what an "autopilot" will and will not do for them.
Generally agree, though there are of course exceptions.

3. American drivers are not highly trained, and therefore don't generally understand what an "autopilot" will or will not do for them.
Agree.

4. Thus, there's no harm in a car manufacturer naming a highly limited driver assistance system "autopilot," and any overestimation of its capabilities by drivers based on that name is their own damn fault.
Huh, what?

Or, if you ever read even a summary of Trump's book The Art of the Deal, you'd know this is negotiations 101 - you have to be willing to walk away if the deal isn't right, in order to get the best outcome.

You do realize that Trump did not write "The Art of the Deal". He put his name on it, but it was written by Tony Schwartz.
https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-considering-pulling-us-out-of-constitution

He also called the First Amendment “something that really has to go.”

“No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution,” he said. “Russia doesn’t have it. North Korea doesn’t have it. All the best countries don’t have it.”

There's a shock. But then who cares about the enviroment when you have profit to worry about.

https://www.newyorker.com/cart...

RTFA, you knee-jerk jackass:

The Hawaii Medical Association said it wanted the issue to be studied more deeply because there was a lack of peer-reviewed evidence suggesting sunscreen is a cause of coral bleaching, and overwhelming evidence that not wearing sunscreen increases cancer rates.

But SCIENCE!!!!!, right?

There's a shock. But then who cares about the enviroment when you have profit to worry about.

https://www.newyorker.com/cart...

Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All (July 25, 2016)

"The Art of the Deal (published in 1987) made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth -- and regrets it."

The US and Australia are actually leading the way in renewable energy production. Google and Apple just went 100% renewable with their energy use. Other US companies are looking do the same

Individual companies aren't a good guide for what is happening. In this case, government policy matters a lot. It is true that Australia has a boom in solar power, but that's despite the current government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/11/australias-solar-power-boom-could-almost-double-capacity-in-a-year-analysts-say https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/ffs/ not because of it. And in many respects Austarlian coal plants are producing all sorts of pollutants that wouldn't even be allowed in most of China https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/15/australian-coal-power-pollution-would-be-illegal-in-us-europe-and-china-report.

On the other hand China and India are ordering more coal plants be built than any other counties. China is taking a look at scaling back coal use but still major cities in China are simply unfit to live in because of pollution.

It is true that China and India are building new coal plants also, but that's only a fraction of their new grid production. In fact, Chinese cities have become substantially cleaner in the last few years https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-beijing-insight/beijing-may-be-starting-to-win-its-battle-against-smog-idUSKBN1EN0ZJ.

Africa is scheduled to become major problem in the next ten years too as more power is needed to provide for their growing economies. Coal is the only source of fuel for Africa that is cheap enough for them to exploit.

Actually, there are a lot of solar projects in parts of Africa also. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/the-race-to-solar-power-africa, but if you note in the comment you are replying to, I specifically included a link to the Solar Electric Light Fund; as I explained in that comment, it is particularly important to help get solar panels for Africa precisely so they don't turn to fossil fuels. So if you are concerned about Africa's fossil fuel production, then by all means donate to SELF.

90 Russians and their paltry Facebook ad buy decided the election. I highly recommend that they be hired for any project. They are the most amazing marketers ever. They beat Hillary's $1.2 billion juggernaut with just $100k! It was like sinking a battleship with a hand grenade.

When even the New Yorker is ridiculing the idea that there is some great Russia conspiracy, you know it's all over but the crying: https://www.newyorker.com/news...

Their techniques are amazingly powerful and they are the world's best persuaders. We need to give them jobs, they are head and shoulders better at their jobs than anyone in our society. Right?

When even the New Yorker is ridiculing the idea that there is some great Russia conspiracy, you know it's all over but the crying: https://www.newyorker.com/news...

Wait a minute, weren't you calling Romney "Hitler"? Why yes you were!.

People are in fear of Russians. Absolute nutty paranoia. Let's all get some perspective and tamp down the troll farm panic. It's 90 people with a shaky grasp of English and a rudimentary understanding of U.S. politics shitposting on Facebook. Our reaction to them is all out of proportion to their influence and will harm us more than they ever could. When even the New Yorker is ridiculing the idea that there is some great Russia conspiracy, you know it's all over but the crying.

Trump's tweet about Moscow laughing its ass off was unusually (perhaps accidentally) accurate. Loyal Putinites and dissident intellectuals alike are remarkably united in finding the American obsession with Russian meddling to be ridiculous. The intellectuals are amused to see Americans so struck by an indictment that adds virtually nothing to a piece published in the Russian media outlet RBC, back in October; I wrote https://www.newyorker.com/news... at the time that the article showed the Russian effort to be more of a cacophony than a conspiracy. The Kremlin and its media are, as Joshua Yaffa writes https://www.newyorker.com/news..., tickled to be taken so seriously. Their sub-grammatical imitations of American political rhetoric, their overtures to the most marginal of political players, are suddenly at the very heart of American political life. This is the sort of thing Russians have done for decades, dating back at least to the early days of the Cold War, but those efforts were always relegated to the dustbin of history before they even began.

Goldman, the Facebook V.P., has seen more of the Russian ads and posts than most Americans, and his imagination clearly strains to accommodate the push to take them seriously. It's hard to square words like "sophisticated" (frequently used by the Times to describe the Russian campaign) with posts like one from an apparently fake L.G.B.T. group promoting something called "Buff Bernie: A Coloring Book for Berniacs" http://www.nydailynews.com/new... with catchy English-language copy: "The coloring is something that suits for all people." It's hard to apply the description "bold covert effort" (used by Politico https://www.politico.com/story...) to the enormous amount of social-network static https://twitter.com/AdrianChen... that Russian trolls produced. To Goldman, it may all look like a giant gray mass in which only a few colorful ads and posts have any meaningâ"and that meaning is hard to discern.

It is exceedingly unlikely that we will ever have a clear understanding of whether Russian meddling affected the outcome of the election. But a huge number of Americans imagine that it did. They imagine that exposure to a foreign effort to muddle American politics can fundamentally change the fate of this countryâ"and by imagining it, they render the country all the more muddled, divided, and vulnerable.

Wait a minute, weren't you calling Romney "Hitler"? Why yes you were!.

People are in fear of Russians. Absolute nutty paranoia. Let's all get some perspective and tamp down the troll farm panic. It's 90 people with a shaky grasp of English and a rudimentary understanding of U.S. politics shitposting on Facebook. Our reaction to them is all out of proportion to their influence and will harm us more than they ever could. When even the New Yorker is ridiculing the idea that there is some great Russia conspiracy, you know it's all over but the crying.

Trump's tweet about Moscow laughing its ass off was unusually (perhaps accidentally) accurate. Loyal Putinites and dissident intellectuals alike are remarkably united in finding the American obsession with Russian meddling to be ridiculous. The intellectuals are amused to see Americans so struck by an indictment that adds virtually nothing to a piece published in the Russian media outlet RBC, back in October; I wrote https://www.newyorker.com/news... at the time that the article showed the Russian effort to be more of a cacophony than a conspiracy. The Kremlin and its media are, as Joshua Yaffa writes https://www.newyorker.com/news..., tickled to be taken so seriously. Their sub-grammatical imitations of American political rhetoric, their overtures to the most marginal of political players, are suddenly at the very heart of American political life. This is the sort of thing Russians have done for decades, dating back at least to the early days of the Cold War, but those efforts were always relegated to the dustbin of history before they even began.

Goldman, the Facebook V.P., has seen more of the Russian ads and posts than most Americans, and his imagination clearly strains to accommodate the push to take them seriously. It's hard to square words like "sophisticated" (frequently used by the Times to describe the Russian campaign) with posts like one from an apparently fake L.G.B.T. group promoting something called "Buff Bernie: A Coloring Book for Berniacs" http://www.nydailynews.com/new... with catchy English-language copy: "The coloring is something that suits for all people." It's hard to apply the description "bold covert effort" (used by Politico https://www.politico.com/story...) to the enormous amount of social-network static https://twitter.com/AdrianChen... that Russian trolls produced. To Goldman, it may all look like a giant gray mass in which only a few colorful ads and posts have any meaningâ"and that meaning is hard to discern.

It is exceedingly unlikely that we will ever have a clear understanding of whether Russian meddling affected the outcome of the election. But a huge number of Americans imagine that it did. They imagine that exposure to a foreign effort to muddle American politics can fundamentally change the fate of this countryâ"and by imagining it, they render the country all the more muddled, divided, and vulnerable.

Wait a minute, weren't you calling Romney "Hitler"? Why yes you were!.

People are in fear of Russians. Absolute nutty paranoia. Let's all get some perspective and tamp down the troll farm panic. It's 90 people with a shaky grasp of English and a rudimentary understanding of U.S. politics shitposting on Facebook. Our reaction to them is all out of proportion to their influence and will harm us more than they ever could. When even the New Yorker is ridiculing the idea that there is some great Russia conspiracy, you know it's all over but the crying.

Trump's tweet about Moscow laughing its ass off was unusually (perhaps accidentally) accurate. Loyal Putinites and dissident intellectuals alike are remarkably united in finding the American obsession with Russian meddling to be ridiculous. The intellectuals are amused to see Americans so struck by an indictment that adds virtually nothing to a piece published in the Russian media outlet RBC, back in October; I wrote https://www.newyorker.com/news... at the time that the article showed the Russian effort to be more of a cacophony than a conspiracy. The Kremlin and its media are, as Joshua Yaffa writes https://www.newyorker.com/news..., tickled to be taken so seriously. Their sub-grammatical imitations of American political rhetoric, their overtures to the most marginal of political players, are suddenly at the very heart of American political life. This is the sort of thing Russians have done for decades, dating back at least to the early days of the Cold War, but those efforts were always relegated to the dustbin of history before they even began.

Goldman, the Facebook V.P., has seen more of the Russian ads and posts than most Americans, and his imagination clearly strains to accommodate the push to take them seriously. It's hard to square words like "sophisticated" (frequently used by the Times to describe the Russian campaign) with posts like one from an apparently fake L.G.B.T. group promoting something called "Buff Bernie: A Coloring Book for Berniacs" http://www.nydailynews.com/new... with catchy English-language copy: "The coloring is something that suits for all people." It's hard to apply the description "bold covert effort" (used by Politico https://www.politico.com/story...) to the enormous amount of social-network static https://twitter.com/AdrianChen... that Russian trolls produced. To Goldman, it may all look like a giant gray mass in which only a few colorful ads and posts have any meaningâ"and that meaning is hard to discern.

It is exceedingly unlikely that we will ever have a clear understanding of whether Russian meddling affected the outcome of the election. But a huge number of Americans imagine that it did. They imagine that exposure to a foreign effort to muddle American politics can fundamentally change the fate of this countryâ"and by imagining it, they render the country all the more muddled, divided, and vulnerable.

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