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  • Russian Election Influence - Senate Report

    Here are the facts, as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.



    Pretty scary stuff. Yet our President looks the other way.
    Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
    RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

  • #2
    Wow. So scary. They try to influence every election. Thank goodness we have the Senate to investigate something that has been happening since the USSR.
    I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
    - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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    • #3
      This is about 2016, with an eye on continuing activity running up to 2020. The report confirms (and expands) on findings of the intelligence community.

      Read the damn report before spewing, please.
      Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
      RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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      • #4
        Trump is going to win and the Russians are going to help him. Do you really think those clowns in the Senate can stop him?
        I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
        - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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        • Berzerker
          Berzerker commented
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          they might if conviction required a simple majority, but 2/3rds no way

      • #5
        Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
        Wow. So scary. They try to influence every election. Thank goodness we have the Senate to investigate something that has been happening since the USSR.
        And in 2016 they finally found a candidate who wanted their help

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        • #6
          Originally posted by giblets View Post

          And in 2016 they finally found a candidate who wanted their help
          And the Democrats got Ukraine, Australia, Italy and the UK to help.
          I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
          - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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          • #7
            Thats a lot of reading, I'll be watching for Aaron Mate's analysis, he got an Izzy for his reporting on RussiaGate. From what I've seen of him so far Russian troll farms were producing click bait with a majority coming after the election and was unrelated.

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            • #8
              This is about destroying democracy as we know it. This is America under attack.

              And all Kid can think about is partisan bull****.

              I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
              Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
              RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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              • #9
                B.S. The Left is the enemy. They are the socialists. They divided this country. They are starting a war. They are fake news. They got you on this Russia bull****. And you KNOW it's bull****.
                I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                • -Jrabbit
                  -Jrabbit commented
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                  So it's official. You refuse to even view the evidence, a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by a respected Richard Burr (R-NC). This is a our country - both parties - under seige from Moscow, but you're so brainwashed, all you can do is squawk about the Left. You are no patriot; you are a Fake American.

                • Kidlicious
                  Kidlicious commented
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                  Stop trying to hoax people.

              • #10
                Anti-trumper calling people partisan... So absurd. No words.
                I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                • #11
                  Morons not believing facts that Russian are attempting influencing our elections. Kidiot.

                  Maybe he'll change his tune when they start supporting the other side. Then we'll hear him howl.
                  It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                  RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                  • #12
                    Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
                    B.S. The Left is the enemy. They are the socialists. They divided this country. They are starting a war.
                    Sounds pretty cool

                    Sharpen the guillotines

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                    • #13
                      I figured you for that. Not many people here care though. Dumb as a rock.
                      I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                      - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                      • #14
                        Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
                        They got you on this Russia bull****. And you KNOW it's bull****.
                        I figured you for that. Not many people here care though. Dumb as a rock.
                        Gee...
                        The evidence is clear and obvious
                        Democrats and Republicans actually agree on something... that Russia did try to influence our elections...
                        Yet you still call it all BS and think that people that agree with ACTUAL PROVEN FACTS are dumb as a rock

                        What does that make you?
                        Keep on Civin'
                        RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                        • #15
                          1. Trump is an ass and should be removed.

                          2. This whole line of inquiry is an embarrassing chimera and should be abandoned. Leaving aside the broader question of how low-rent Russian spook hirelings are better at persuading Americans than other Americans are--and how that should concern us, if true--consider the numbers.

                          10.4 million tweets total over two years sounds like a lot, but cursory searching indicates that there are probably about 6k tweets per second, adding up to two hundred billion per year. Assuming roughly five million tweets in one year, this means that, uh, a little under three thousandths of a percent of Twitter activity may have been due to malign troll influence. Bearing in mind that Twitter users are younger and therefore significantly more liberal on average than the general population, this is an utterly insignificant amount of output even if all of it was uncommonly persuasive (for wads of a few characters [possibly with video or image attachments] vomited by ESL users onto a medium famous for creating vicious online slapfights and dogpiles).

                          Russians made 116K Instagram posts over two years? Instagram does around a hundred million a day. You can do the math on that one. Having a slightly harder time digging up FB stats and there's a limit to how much effort I'm willing to invest in this silliness. Hopefully you get the point. I'll let somebody else dig up the number of pro-Hillary tweets and such, if they feel like it.

                          3. The only feasible way to stop the free flow of information on the internet is to adopt the Chinese model. Let's not.

                          4. For ****'s sake does every ****ing thing on this ****ing forum have to be about ****ing Trump I can't even
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