Make Russia Great Again

[Mike M (the other one)]

(02-21-2020, 02:49 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Do you think that these other countries just roll over and let us interfere in their democratic processes? Do you think those countries just go "oh well, that's the way the world works"? I mean, that's what is happening right now and you're attitude seems to be agreeing with that position.

No, they do not, but we are not them, so we can't combat it the same way, you know, run around and kill the other group(s) or shut off their voices because we have the 1st amendment protecting these fools and it allows them to say it and get away with it.

I don't want them interfering in ours, but we have no right to whine and moan when we interfere in others and doesn't matter if we get caught or not. The idea is that we ARE trying to control the outcome. We are stuck in a "what comes around goes around" machine that we made.

As far as I know, they haven't been able to change the votes at the booth level. Now mis-information is the way they can influence votes, but that's always been happening between the 2 parties already, now we are just adding more parties to the mix. It's part of our social media revolution that I don't think we fully expected to happen, and clearly we don't know how to combat it yet.

It's also easy for Trump et al to say, "fake news" when an organization gets caught peddling misleading information, headlines etc.  All of this just feeds itself and keeps it going. I have no idea how to stop it, as long as someone is willing to "click it" there will always be misleading/propaganda wars on social media.

These are pretty much the facts of where we are as a nation for now.