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Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com)
bestweasel writes: The Guardian reports on another story about Russian meddling, but interestingly, this one comes from a respected Russian news source, the RBC. From the report: "Russian trolls posing as Americans made payments to genuine activists in the U.S. to help fund protest movements on socially divisive issues. On Tuesday, the newspaper RBC published a major investigation into the work of a so-called Russian 'troll factory' since 2015, including during the period of the U.S. election campaign, disclosures that are likely to put further spotlight on alleged Russian meddling in the election. RBC said it had identified 118 accounts or groups in Facebook, Instagram and Twitter that were linked to the troll factory, all of which had been blocked in August and September this year as part of the U.S. investigation into Russian electoral meddling. Perhaps the most alarming element of the article was the claim that employees of the troll factory had contacted about 100 real U.S.-based activists to help with the organization of protests and events. RBC claimed the activists were contacted by Facebook group administrators hiding their Russian origin and were offered financial help to pay for transport or printing costs. About $80,000 was spent during a two-year period, according to the report."
Ugh. Found the poor schmuck who buys what the orange moron is selling.
Trump supporters are dumber than cattle.
Facts do not matter to the crowd that supports Donald J Drumpf and never did.
Facts do not matter to the crowd that supports Hillary R Clinton and never did.
FTFY
What sort of idiot wastes their time with this, given that *none* of it is in any way incriminating nor does it show *any* evidence of actual collusion?
Key things to note in the headline:
**Russian** Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (***theguardian.com***) ----
That's all you need to know.
Before you say it, I'm not right wing, I'm not even American.
The slant from theguardian and several others media outlets has gone full tilt left, not just slightly left, which for the most part I agree with but just left to the point of ridiculousness.
I love how one of the arguments of the election was "hacking! the Russians hacked, the whole election is a fraud!!" //EVEN IF// that was true, even if! The Russians supposedly didn't hack the election, what they /supposedly/ did was release incriminating evidence about Hilary, for goodness sakes. *IF* it was them at all, but because it was "hacks" the election was "stolen" - not that people were swayed by more realistic information about Hilary, no no no.
The Guardian articles are verging on utter clickbait at this point
ARE YOU WHITE?
DO YOU HAVE A PENIS?
YOU'RE THE PROBLEM, Kill yourself now, to save the world problems......
Yeah, no.
Dems, at the federal level at least, generally don't support gays blacks or whatever just because they want their vote, but because they think humans should be treated humanely.
Yeah, right. Is that why Dems constantly try to dismantle charter schools? Because they are the best chance that blacks have to get quality education in the ghetto? No, it's because the contributions (aka "bribes") from public employee unions are more important than the humane treatment of blacks. Even Obama dismantled predominantly-black charter schools.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Even if anyone buys the premise that Russia was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Trump (in secret) after spending millions of dollars to support Clintons (in the open), so what? Clinton is a known criminal. Why would we care if its Russia helping us to expose a criminal instead of (for example) France? If the FBI and the DOJ were so corrupt that they would not charge a candidate of the same party as the sitting president, shouldn't we be thankful if some foreign power were to reveal the depth of their corruption? Why is their doing us a favor such a problem for us? I mean, there is no question that Clinton committed multiple crimes and that she completely destroyed the good faith and credit of The United States by blatantly reneging on international agreements which US entered in good faith. Why is someone spending an amount so small (that it wouldn't buy even 1 Super Bowl ad) considered election influence if the end result was to shine the light on misdeeds of a criminal running for office?
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
...is in bed with the commies again? What a shock... not...
If you take the message at face value it's no wonder you fall for all these simple tricks.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Heh. You don't even understand what the simple trick Russia pulled off was, do you? You still didn't even notice, that you took the bait, hook, line and sinker, becoming target of hate of the stupid and the average and a laughing stock for the smart? You still have no clue how Clinton lost?
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I don't think there is any actual outrage, it's so transparent that this is excuse-searching for Hillary.