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2 hours ago, MaybeeRN said:

Always a conspiracy with liberals 

You thought that was a conspiracy theory? Oy gevalt. Ummm, no. It was an economic theory that considered the role of monopolies/lack of competition in market pricing.  You really didn’t understand that? 
 

And not for nuthin’, but as a far right adherent, you’re talking about liberals being into conspiracy theories? That’s actually pretty funny in a weirdly ironic way. 

Ego coniecto stultus tam stultus est.

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2 hours ago, subee said:

Skeptics don't put people like Trump in office.  Skepticism is what keeps us away from conspiracy theories which are populated almost entirely by people who want to be led.

You mean like Russian collusion or Russia swinging the campaign for Trump.

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5 minutes ago, emtb2rn said:

You thought that was a conspiracy theory? Oy gevalt. Ummm, no. It was an economic theory that considered the role of monopolies/lack of competition in market pricing.  You really didn’t understand that? 
 

And not for nuthin’, but as a far right adherent, you’re talking about liberals being into conspiracy theories? That’s actually pretty funny in a weirdly ironic way. 

Ego coniecto stultus tam stultus est.

One person’s economic theory is another liberals tin foil hat club.

2 hours ago, subee said:

We need more studies like this to prove what we all intuit anyway: the rich are getting getting richer creating more economic polarization.  But what is the alternative?  How can be control the worst aspects of capitalism?  It certainly has been an interesting past couple of years with the economy disobeying many things we thought were immutable.  I don't think it's even possible to control an economy beyond little tweaks here and there because it's so intertwinced with politics.

The rich will always get richer.   That’s simple math.

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1 hour ago, MaybeeRN said:

You mean like Russian collusion or Russia swinging the campaign for Trump.

The entire US Intelligence community concluded that Russia did indeed interfere with the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump win, a Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigation confirmed this.  Various members of, and affiliates of, the Trump campaign actively took part in Russian assistance, despite not having a centralized plan.  

Russia didn't directly alter votes by hacking election systems, but they more than likely affected how people voted.

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9 minutes ago, MunoRN said:

The entire US Intelligence community concluded that Russia did indeed interfere with the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump win, a Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigation confirmed this.  Various members of, and affiliates of, the Trump campaign actively took part in Russian assistance, despite not having a centralized plan.  

Russia didn't directly alter votes by hacking election systems, but they more than likely affected how people voted.

$100k in facebook spending was able to sway all these voters.  Wow no need to spend billions anymore.  Fake news.

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30 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

$100k in facebook spending was able to sway all these voters.  Wow no need to spend billions anymore.  Fake news.

Even if there wasn't anything else involved in Russian election meddling, I'm not sure how it wouldn't be concerning that all it took for a foreign adversary to cause a contingent of American voters to do their bidding was 100k in facebook ads.

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1 minute ago, MunoRN said:

Even if there wasn't anything else involved in Russian election meddling, I'm not sure how it wouldn't be concerning that all it took for a foreign adversary to cause a contingent of American voters to do their bidding was 100k in facebook ads.

Yes because facebook is such a conservative haven.  Said no one ever.

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19 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

Yes because facebook is such a conservative haven.  Said no one ever.

It's certainly not specific to conservatives, which is why Russian disinformation campaigns were spread throughout various social media, including more conservative-specific sites.  

But if we take your assertion as true (even though it's well established that it's not), apparently it was enough to have a large portion of Americans as well as American media repeating the disinformation.

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1 hour ago, MunoRN said:

It's certainly not specific to conservatives, which is why Russian disinformation campaigns were spread throughout various social media, including more conservative-specific sites.  

But if we take your assertion as true (even though it's well established that it's not), apparently it was enough to have a large portion of Americans as well as American media repeating the disinformation.

Pure fantasy.  You can’t prove a large portion of Americans was swayed by $100k in facebook ads.  Where is all this American media reporting this?

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11 hours ago, MaybeeRN said:

Pure fantasy.  You can’t prove a large portion of Americans was swayed by $100k in facebook ads.  Where is all this American media reporting this?

In, well, the media…. Here’s just a few. But if you’re looking for 100% concrete proof, that’s impossible and irrelevant, see occam’s razor.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/11/what-we-found-facebook-ads-russians-accused-election-meddling/602319002/

https://www.bustle.com/p/russian-facebook-ads-could-have-swayed-michigan-wisconsin-voters-in-the-2016-election-2781383

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/13/17349670/facebook-russia-ads-race-house-democrats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russian-ads-facebook-anatomy/

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11 hours ago, MaybeeRN said:

Pure fantasy.  You can’t prove a large portion of Americans was swayed by $100k in facebook ads.  Where is all this American media reporting this?

That reporting is right where you didn't look. Is intellectual laziness a strategy or a side effect?

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1 hour ago, emtb2rn said:

In, well, the media…. Here’s just a few. But if you’re looking for 100% concrete proof, that’s impossible and irrelevant, see occam’s razor.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/11/what-we-found-facebook-ads-russians-accused-election-meddling/602319002/

https://www.bustle.com/p/russian-facebook-ads-could-have-swayed-michigan-wisconsin-voters-in-the-2016-election-2781383

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/13/17349670/facebook-russia-ads-race-house-democrats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russian-ads-facebook-anatomy/

That's not the media repeating the disinformation.  Which is what was posted.  This is again pure liberal fantasy land.

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