5 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Suspected Campaign from Russia on Reddit
It was a similar story with the 2016 US election campaign. The Russian social media activity wasn't united behind one cause, it just tried to play groups off against each other, stir up general discord and disrupt the chance of legitimate political discussion
Comment by MotherOfDragonflies at 07/12/2019 at 00:09 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Exactly. Russia doesn’t like trump. Russia likes the chaos that trump brings and they like how easy he is to manipulate. They want people to be frothing at the mouth on *both* sides and they want everyone else in the middle to tune out due to emotional fatigue. Russia has done a fucking number on us. Not because they tampered with the election or made trump president, but because they’ve accomplished their goal of internal discord. Our country has never been weaker because every person is either deliberately sheltering themselves in ignorance or they fucking hate everyone else.
Comment by HooDatOwl at 06/12/2019 at 23:12 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The two sides haven't had legitimate political discussion in decades