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Topic	How did we go from Red Dawn to Civil War?
s0nicfan 04/16/24 12:48:41 PM #7:	MrToothHasYou posted... Decades of mass shooters and overt calls (not to mention actual attempts) for violent overthrow of the government by right-wingers, you mean. No, I mean when the government looked into election interference by Russia in 2016 they found an almost equal amount of paid propaganda in support of both parties. They find wedge issues and then intentionally inflame them until everyone hates everyone else. This has been extensively reported on and a known strategy Russia and other countries have been using for decades. Luckily for them useful idiots play along because they're looking for an excuse to hate anyway. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/russian-propaganda-group-purchased-ads-facebook-2016-election-heres-means Facebook found 470 inauthentic accounts associated with approximately 3,000 political ads from June 2015 to May 2017. The ad purchases and accounts are affiliated with a Russian "troll farm," dubbed the Internet Research Agency, which spreads pro-Russian propaganda and false information across the World Wide Web. Most of the ads did not contain references to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, voting or the candidates. "Rather, the ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights," Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said in a blog post on the company's website. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:979940690] in How did we... [t:80748544]...</cite> <quote>MrToothHasYou posted... </cite><quote>Decades of mass shooters and overt calls (not to mention actual attempts) for violent overthrow of the government by right-wingers, you mean.</quote>No, I mean when the government looked into election interference by Russia in 2016 they found an almost equal amount of paid propaganda in support of both parties. They find wedge issues and then intentionally inflame them until everyone hates everyone else. This has been extensively reported on and a known strategy Russia and other countries have been using for decades. Luckily for them useful idiots play along because they're looking for an excuse to hate anyway. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/russian-propaganda-group-purchased-ads-facebook-2016-election-heres-means<quote>Facebook found 470 inauthentic accounts associated with approximately 3,000 political ads from June 2015 to May 2017. The ad purchases and accounts are affiliated with a Russian "troll farm," dubbed the Internet Research Agency, which spreads pro-Russian propaganda and false information across the World Wide Web.Most of the ads did not contain references to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, voting or the candidates. "Rather, the ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights," Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said in a blog post on the company's website.</quote> --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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