Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
by lifeformed on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:30PM
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> America has a rich history in interfering with the elections of other countries. It (possibly) happens to them, and suddenly it's like "how dare they!".
I don't understand this line of argument. Isn't it clear that the people condemning election interference in the US are also against election interference perpetrated by the US? It's like saying that it's silly for Americans to be upset that they are being bombed by a country, since America bombs other countries.
The point was that there was no uproar, no real investigations, into America's interference in other countries.
>>Luckily at the end of the day however, they mostly separate their frustrations with the American government and the citizens of America.
In Russia there's the government and the people, in US, in theory, the government is the people.
It doesn't really matter if Russians are frustrated with the "government" or American people.
Russians chose more Cold War style conflict.
BTW Putin ia really not as omnipotent as some people think.
Having recently lived in Russia, people still have not forgotten Yeltsin, and they won't. Luckily at the end of the day however, they mostly separate their frustrations with the American government and the citizens of America.