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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3158862" data-attributes="member: 18225">Maybe not.So, it&#039;s not clear to me that Russian intervention via Twitter, etc. could swing an election, although that seems unquantifiable.As well, it&#039;s also not clear to me that the Russians ever thought that Trump would win.But we&#039;re finding out that paid Russian trolls got their Twitter fingers into all sorts of stuff, not all of which was pro-Trump propaganda.A lot of it was anti-Hillary, pro-Trump, for sure, but other things included fake invites to real Americans to host BLM rallies, lots of gun stuff, pro/anti LGBTQ posts, on and on.I&#039;m not sure Putin is actually happy that Trump won, but it seems that the Kremlin&#039;s original mission succeeded - to sow as much chaos in our last Prez election as possible.I hope some sort of credible accounting comes out of this - Russia didn&#039;t need to actually hack our vote tally, they just threw a lot of gas on the US left/right divide that&#039;s been present and ever-widening, then they sat back and roasted marshmallows over the fire, or whatever Russians do at campfires.In a sad way, it reminds me that there are a hell of a lot of really stupid Americans that lack basic critical thinking skills (both sides, people, both sides!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 3158862, member: 18225"] Maybe not. So, it's not clear to me that Russian intervention via Twitter, etc. could swing an election, although that seems unquantifiable. As well, it's also not clear to me that the Russians ever thought that Trump would win. But we're finding out that paid Russian trolls got their Twitter fingers into all sorts of stuff, not all of which was pro-Trump propaganda. A lot of it was anti-Hillary, pro-Trump, for sure, but other things included fake invites to real Americans to host BLM rallies, lots of gun stuff, pro/anti LGBTQ posts, on and on. I'm not sure Putin is actually happy that Trump won, but it seems that the Kremlin's original mission succeeded - to sow as much chaos in our last Prez election as possible. I hope some sort of credible accounting comes out of this - Russia didn't need to actually hack our vote tally, they just threw a lot of gas on the US left/right divide that's been present and ever-widening, then they sat back and roasted marshmallows over the fire, or whatever Russians do at campfires. In a sad way, it reminds me that there are a hell of a lot of really stupid Americans that lack basic critical thinking skills (both sides, people, both sides!). [/QUOTE]

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