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They vent to cabin vit moose

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 18:32:26 +0000

They vent to cabin vit moose and sqvirrel. Vat more do you vant?

Comes to mind: all the

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:16:13 +0000

In reply to That we disagree on what the

Comes to mind: all the machinations of Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale were for naught. Ridicule of incompetence defangs enemies.

That we disagree on what the

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:13:01 +0000

In reply to I disagree. I'm sure they

That we disagree on what the message was, and that others might see a different message as well, is an important point for two reasons. One: they might not have tried hard to get tiptop Clio-award-winning propaganda just because they think sowing chaos is enough. Two, and more important I think: that the propaganda is not clear makes for low outrage on the part of the targeted. As in "where's the outrage that the Russians tried to interfere in our election?' And then you show the evidence with stuff like this and the reaction is: so what, big deal, it was really clueless stuff, we had and have worse coming from Trump tweets every day.much less Breitbart fans.

I disagree. I'm sure they

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:09:59 +0000

In reply to I think you might have it

I disagree. I'm sure they were promoting "super predator", the 1990s' crime act and other gripes to discourage them from voting or anyone-but-Hillary (even though I haven't watched the videos, I assume some were to feed black anger with the Democrats and their candidate).

Wingnut sites did pick up

rmrd0000 — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:31:32 +0000

In reply to I think you might have it

Wingnut sites did pick up some of the propaganda. I’m would not be surprised that some wingnuts were gullible and believed the nonsense. Using Pokémon Go to have people search out sites of police abuse is amazingly stupid.

I think you might have it

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 05:59:01 +0000

In reply to The actions suggested by the

I think you might have it backwards, I believe that in most of these cases the Russians were targeting an audience of non-blacks with racist leanings. They wanted that audience to think that blacks were plotting, to motivate that audience to vote in fear of blacks.

Failing that, they were of course just happy to stir up resentment between groups. So it didn't matter that much how authentic some of this stuff sounded.

Is in the end what all internet trolls like to do, rile people's emotions up to start screaming at each other. Including starting up the name calling, i.e., snowflakes, right-wing nut job, deplorables, etc.

And inspiring fear and hatred of "the other" is one of the favorite things of populist demagogues.

Carrying guns was not gun

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 03:18:22 +0000

In reply to There is reason to believe

Carrying guns was not gun love - the Panthers explicitly said, "if you won't protect our neighborhoods, we'll do it ourselves". They weren't duped into this by anyone. They were the well-armed well-trained and self-controlled militia that the rughtwing gun nuts never were.

Please provide support for

rmrd0000 — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:47:16 +0000

In reply to Sorry RM but the White

Please provide support for your argument that Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale were influenced by the government to walk into the California Senate. You are free to your opinion. Please provide facts on Newton and Seale.

Sorry RM but the White

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:32:18 +0000

In reply to Your argument seems to take

Sorry RM but the White Commies from that time had just as lousy internal security as the Black Commies and the Indian Commies too. Hoover had been rumming COINTELPRO for about a decade and had seasoned professionals tasked with enlisting or forcing compliance from friends and familys of the radicals, they didn't have a chance.

The actions suggested by the

rmrd0000 — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:59:53 +0000

In reply to An article that Pericles

The actions suggested by the Russians was an insult to the intelligence of the black community. Many of us use Black oriented news sites every day. This Russian nonsense never came across those sites. It does seem that the Bubbas frequenting wingnut sites did see this Russian garbage.

As I noted above when Blacktivists tried to organize protest in Baltimore, they were quickly shut down by the real black activists in the city.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-ci-blacktivist-social-media-20170929-story.html

The racism of the Russians made their tactics laughable.