Is it "making a meaningful statement" or "citing sources for claims"?
Not like you're playing either game, so it's hard to guess.
[1] https://www.vanderbilt.edu/unity/2023/04/07/first-ever-vande...
Russia punches above their weight because people believe what they want to believe (and what their peer group they want to fit in to believes), and are easily corruptible by "small" amounts of money. And they have nukes.
It's billionaires helping billionaires.
https://fortune.com/article/russian-president-vladimir-putin...
This is not a sentence in English.
>Why would powerful people in the US succumb to to Russia's influence?
I have cited my sources; please read this comment for more details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118558
>Russia has the GDP of a province of China. Russia does not have a thriving manufacturing sector. Russia has increasingly less influence or power over the world.
Bravo, you're starting to figure out that having influence over people doesn't need any of that.
Russia does have a thriving propaganda manufacturing sector, and invests a lot of its GDP in FSB. Hmm.
>If anything, maybe the Lenin-loving Stalin-admiring Marxists would love Russia, like half of the university professors in the 50s.
They would, and they still do.
Many eggs in many baskets, see.
Again — I've cited my sources; you're welcome to stay wilfully ignorant and be asking the same questions in subsequent comments.
I'll be here at day.
> I'll be here at day.
i hate to heckle, but... :)
I'll be here all day, using flow typing on my phone :)
Because dang them, right?
The sources are still there though.
Yet, they did not bother to remove my useless neighbouring comment, only flagged it. I’m not surprised anymore. Not the first time I see this behaviour.
Because, as we've learned from another post here on HN, 90% of the population lack the functional literacy necessary for comprehending long passes of texts (and extracting supporting information from references):
https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-...
And, alas, I've provided more than a spoonful of context here.
That — and the efforts of Russian propagandists at work.
We'd be naive to think they aren't active on HN like they're on reddit; and that's before getting into examining the effectiveness of Russian-style propaganda on the core HN audience.