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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by dogma1138 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:37AM (#17660949)
I don’t think that is the point.

Foreign intervention with the clear aim of causing political rift doesn’t care about party lines other than the fact that they can be used to manufacture outrage and division.

If Trump was a democratic candidate or if the Dems had a different loon in play while the republicans had someone say like McCain running then the same actors would have been working in the same manner just now in favor of a different party.

These actors will exploit any vulnerability and there is no hidden intention to benefit a single party other than to further their own goals.

During the Cold War the Soviets we’re finding both communist and neo-Nazi groups in west Germany at same time because for them the goal was always to cause as much chaos as possible.

In the US during Vietnam they were funding anti-war groups on campuses again simply because they were seeking to incite as much dissent as possible.

All interests are or at least can be easily compromised it’s just a matter of circumstance and timing.

Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by monkeydreams on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:51PM (#17668684)
> Foreign intervention with the clear aim of causing political rift doesn’t care about party lines other than the fact that they can be used to manufacture outrage and division.

Putin said in Helsinki that he favoured Trump and directed his officials to help Trump. This was not a non-partisan issue. They wanted Trump, and causing chaos was one of the features which likely attracted them to Trump.

Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by Veelox on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:45PM (#17676088)
>Putin said in Helsinki that he favoured Trump and directed his officials to help Trump.

Wait, what? Can I get a cite for that because I have heard a lot of claims about Helsinki but I have never heard that.

Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by dogma1138 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:03PM (#17673829)
Ofc they favored a less effective leader that can be used to cause chaos, the US also favors the same leaders in it's opponents.

That does not make it a partisan issue however, Putin doesn't give two fucks if Trump was republican or democrat and attempting to make it look like a clear partisan issue is actually playing into their hands.