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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    No rational person thinks these are absolutes.
    But that's how you're presenting it because it's you framing a bad faith argument.

    All that shit you posted below is the byproduct of exactly what I've been talking about; the Conservative propaganda effort over the last 40 years to undermine faith in democratic institutions in order to break them up and sell them off to their rich friends.

    So I'm not sure what you think you're proving by posting those links other than that propaganda is successful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    like i said it's speculatio
    No!

    You are the one who insisted that Manafort sharing polling data with Kilmink was "a favor".

    How is it "a favor"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    he had no active ties to Russia, he worked for Ukraine politicians
    Nonsense. He had plenty of active ties to Russia, and all of that came out in his court case and in the Mueller report that you still haven't read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    he would be exposing himself to treason.
    Welcome to the conversation.


    now add in the fact there was no Russian collusion
    Mueller didn't say that.

    If there was no collusion with Russia, why did the RNC change its platform during the convention to pro-Russia, and why did Manafort share polling data with Kilimnik for months?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Exactly my point. Propaganda, campaign money, or even Russian interference is not going to affect your vote.
    I'm not voting GOP specifically because of those things.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    And nothing is going to change the votes of Republicans. Campaign ads are aimed at influencing the relatively small number of undecided voters--but to assume it changed votes from Hillary to Trump is naive
    OMFG.

    You just said campaign ads can change the minds of voters, then in literally the same sentence, said it didn't happen in 2016.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Hillary has been disliked for years---that is why Obama beat her for the 2008 nomination. Or, did the Russians interfere to swing the nomination for Obama? So Russian propaganda was not needed to create a negative view of Clinton.
    Mueller's report, that you still haven't read (why?), says the Russian hacking started in 2015, not 2008.

    You are a sophist and you argue in bad faith.
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    Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital and Orders U.S. Embassy to Move

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/w...l-capital.html
    PAYBACK for Izraeli election interference, dumbasses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Loyal Democratic groups like blacks turned out in low numbers in places like WI. If she had gotten the same black turnout as Obama she would have won. Those black voters did not vote for Trump.
    First of all, the results of 2016 are in doubt now because we know that Russia hacked into the voting systems of every single state, and only Rosenstein's assurance nothing was changed is all anyone is going on.

    We don't know if they changed vote totals, and we can't trust Rosenstein. So it stands to reason they would have changed the totals because why hack election systems if your intent wasn't to screw with them?


    There is that literal mindset again. It affects a very small percentage of voters.
    Oh, so you have a scientific study you can produce that shows propaganda only affects a very small percentage of voters? No? Oh, so you're just substituting a bad faith assertion in order to retcon your shitty argument. From what study are you basing this conclusion that propaganda only affects a small percentage of voters? What percentage? How many? And would 100,000 total voters be the "small percentage" affected? That was Trump's total margin in the states he won in the Midwest, BTW. 100,000 voters...so wouldn't 100,000 be a "small percentage"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Mueller's report, that you still haven't read (why?), says the Russian hacking started in 2015, not 2008.

    You are a sophist and you argue in bad faith.
    So when Obama was President, who then did nothing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Mueller's report, that you still haven't read (why?), says the Russian hacking started in 2015, not 2008.

    You are a sophist and you argue in bad faith.
    So when Obama was President, who then did nothing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    It affects a very small percentage of voters.
    So before, you laughed off propaganda affecting anyone's choice.

    Now you're saying it does affect the choice, but for "a small percentage of voters".

    Well, Trump won those three midwest states by a total margin of 100,000 votes. Would 100,000 voters qualify as "a small percentage of voters"?

    So now that we are taking your post through to its conclusion, you are admitting that Russian propaganda did sway the election to Trump because you said yourself that "a small percentage of voters" are affected by propaganda.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Mueller's report, that you still haven't read (why?), says the Russian hacking started in 2015, not 2008.

    You are a sophist and you argue in bad faith.
    Was that at the same time Obama was interfering in Israeli elections, asking for a friend?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    And some because of propaganda from liberals
    Nope. By October/November 2020, liberals had galvanized behind Clinton...as she won 3 million more votes than Trump.


    It was because Drumpf and Clinton both had negative ratings meaning a majority of voters did not like either one of them.
    Yeah, but Trump won...Clinton didn't...and Trump won by a total of 100,000 votes across three states, all of which were targeted by Russian propaganda efforts as detailed in the Mueller Report you still haven't read.

    You said in literally one post ago that propaganda "affects a small percentage of voters" (and you made that assertion with no evidence to support yourself...just your shitty judgment and poor instincts)...well, would 100,000 voters be "a small percentage of voters"? And did those 100,000 voters prove pivotal in choosing the President?

    So the only conclusion you can come to us that Russian propaganda got Trump elected because it swayed the minds of "a small percentage of voters" big enough to make the difference.

    So why are you arguing with me that Russia didn't change anyone's vote, even after you admit that propaganda does affect voters, albeit "a small percentage", but a percentage big enough to affect the outcome?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    It doesn't take Russian propaganda to dislike Hillary or Trump.
    Here's the winding path your argument has gone:

    1. Russia didn't change anyone's minds.

    2. Propaganda isn't effective.

    3. OK, propaganda is effective, but only for a small percentage of voters.

    4. OK, a small percentage of voters were pivotal in the 2016 election, but that small percentage of voters who put Trump over the top weren't the small percentage of voters I was talking about who were susceptible to propaganda.

    So...if propaganda is effective enough to change the minds of "a small percentage of voters", why wouldn't the Russian propaganda about Clinton have affected the 100,000 voters across three states Trump needed to flip in order to win?
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