America’s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In Kind
There is still no clear proof that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 U.S. election in any meaningful way. Which is weird, because
Russia and every other country on earth would be perfectly justified in doing so.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey admitting on national television that
the United States routinely meddles in other countries’ elections. …
Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian social media trolls was paraded around as proof of something hugely significant (
an “act of war” in this case), but on closer examination turns out to be empty. …
there is in fact no evidence that the troll farming operation was an attempt to manipulate the U.S. election, nor indeed that it had any ties to the Russian government at all, nor indeed that it was anything other than a crafty Russian civilian’s money making scheme.
The notion that a few Russian trolls committed a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” by “sowing discord” with a bunch of wildly contradictory posts endorsing all sorts of different ideologies sounds completely ridiculous in a country whose mainstream media spends all its time actively creating political division … as a civilian operation to attract social media followers to sock puppet accounts with the goal of selling promoted posts for profit, it makes perfect sense. …
public dialogue is ignoring the fact that
these trolls overwhelmingly used mainstream media like the Washington Post in their shares instead of outlets like RT and Infowars. …
There is currently no evidence that the Russian government interfered in the U.S. election. … if they did they had every right to. …
“Okay, so America isn’t perfect and we’ve meddled a few times,” the argument goes. “So what? You’re saying just because we’ve done it that makes it okay for Russia to do it?” Actually,
yes. Of course it does. …
Every country on earth is absolutely entitled to interfere in America’s elections. America is responsible for the overwhelming majority of election interferences around the world in modern times, including an interference in Russia’s elections in the nineties that was so brazen they made a Hollywood movie about it, … the United States has declared that this acceptable. …
A guy in a cowboy hat [Washington] runs into a bar and starts punching people. Most of them just rub their sore jaws and hunch over their drinks hoping to avoid any trouble, but one guy in a fur cap sets down his vodka and shoves the man in the cowboy hat. The man in the cowboy [Washington] hat begins shrieking like a little girl. All his friends rush to his side to comfort him and begin angrily shaking their fists at the man in the fur cap. “Hey, he punched me!” says the man in the fur cap. “That’s a whataboutism!” sobs the man in the cowboy hat. Can you imagine anything more ridiculous? Seriously, how do people think this is a thing? …
by asserting that it is acceptable for the CIA to meddle in other countries’ elections, the US has created an environment where that sort of thing is acceptable. …
If Americans don’t like election meddling, they need to demand that their government stops doing it. As long as it remains the very worst offender in that department, the U.S. is entitled to nothing other than the entire world meddling in its elections. …
Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.
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Originally Posted by Dr.3D
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