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But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem (lemmy.world)
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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

LOL false dichotomy attempt.
Cheap and embarrassing.
As I said to some other conspiracy theorist on here:
Show me** evidence** from credible sources.
I'm sure this will be the last I hear from you LOL.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, it's 2026 and you don't know how Wikipedia works? Cheap and embarrassing

You just have to scroll down, and then you get to:


References

    Myers, Steven Lee and Barnes, Julian E. (July 10, 2024). "U.S. and Allies Take Aim at Covert Russian Information Campaign". The New York Times.
    De Luce, Dan (February 26, 2024). "Russia's 2024 election interference has already begun". NBC News. Archived from the original on April 1, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
    Barnes, Julian E. and Sanger, David E. (March 27, 2024). "Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 2, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
    Barnes, Julian E.; Thrush, Glenn; and Myers, Steven Lee (September 4, 2024). "U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
    Roebuck, Jeremy (September 4, 2024). "Feds in Philly announce takedown of Russian-backed propaganda effort aimed at influencing U.S. presidential vote". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
    Lyngaas, Sean (September 17, 2024). "Microsoft says Russian operatives are ramping up attacks on Harris campaign with fake videos". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 17, 2024.
    De Vynck, Gerrit (September 6, 2024). "YouTube takes down right-wing channels linked to DOJ Russia indictments". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
    Zadrozny, Brandy (October 16, 2024). "The disinformation pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S." NBC News. Retrieved October 17, 2024. "Russia is the most active foreign threat to the 2024 election, according to U.S. officials."
    Riechmann, Deb (February 13, 2018). "Intelligence chiefs say they're seeing signs of Russian meddling in America's upcoming midterm elections". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on February 14, 2018. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
    Sheth, Sonam (February 13, 2018). "Top intelligence chiefs issue a dire warning about the Kremlin's ongoing efforts to influence the US, defend against Trump's attacks on the FBI, and explain what happened with a shady Russian offering dirt on Trump". Business Insider. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
    Lyngaas, Sean (September 5, 2024). "Russian trolling 2.0: How the Kremlin shifted tactics from its 2016 election strategy". CNN. Archived from the original on September 8, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
    Myers, Steven Lee and Crowley, Michael (September 13, 2024). "U.S. Accuses Russian TV Network of Conducting Covert Intelligence Acts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 16, 2024. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
    Bo Lillis, Katie (December 18, 2023). "China, Russia, Iran and Cuba all tried to meddle in 2022 US congressional elections, intelligence assessment finds". CNN. Archived from the original on August 18, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
    "Key Findings and Recommendations: Foreign Interference Related to the 2022 US Federal Elections". Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved November 8, 2024.

There are significantly more of them, too; 85 in all. So many that Lemmy doesn't let me paste them all in one comment. And this is only from the 2024 election. To quote someone insufferable:

I'm sure this will be the last I hear from you LOL.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

NYT, WaPO,etc.....
LOL those are your credible US regime sources?
Man you're a clown.
Also you're switching accounts again, Eglin Airforce Base incompetence

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

US regime sources

Oh, you're one of those. So when you say "credible source," what you really mean is "source I already agree with." Meaning that, to you, there is no credible source. I guess that means no, there is no proof that will satisfy you. Cool. You've just religioned your way into unfalsifiability, I guess.

you're switching accounts again

Sure, believe what you want to believe. Clearly I have multiple sock puppet accounts on Lemmy to have random arguments with people about whether or not Russia did something to affect the US Presidential Election. I can't honestly comprehend why you think I might be doing that.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Read the fucking Mueller Report. Like, actually read it.

Or is that not a good enough source either?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's a US REGIME SOURCE.
Even worse than the regime press mouthpieces.
Obviously far from impartial.
And I'm not wasting my time reading all that.
But even then, If you actually read it I'm sure you can show me EVIDENCE for just one of all these claims I'm prepared to hear it.
As I asked 3 times and you failed to provide it 3 times.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Obviously far from impartial.

Right--it has every interest in making it seem like the government's not being affected by outside interests. They're not impartial--they're biased in the other direction. And they still admit that the Russian government interfered in US elections.

Are you even listening to yourself?

If you actually read it I'm sure you can show me EVIDENCE for just one of all these claims

I provided a whole list of evidence that you discarded because it didn't meet with your purity test. But sure, here's more. The Mueller Report includes documents that:

  • report a Russian operative calling their work on the 2016 US election "information warfare";

  • show how Russia actually began operations in the US to destabilize the 2016 election two years earlier;

  • detail the fake social media accounts that promoted Trump or divided Americans using fake hashtags like "#KidsForTrump";

  • give evidence for the IRA setting up a 2015 Confederate rally in Houston, as well as a 2016 Trump rally in Miami which Trump himself promoted;

  • prove that the GRU hacked the DNC and the Clinton campaign, releasing files to WikiLeaks--in one case, only five hours after Trump publicly asked them to do so;

  • record a Trump associate's email to Michael Cohen: "Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA, and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this."

Plus, outside of the Mueller Report, the Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Paul Manafort cases include, on the record, evidence of Russian collusion.

So I'm not sure what else I can tell you here. It's pretty well-established and clear that Russia has been working to influence US elections for at least a decade now. To pretend otherwise would require some absolutely wild rejection of unbiased facts.

Now, none of this means that Israel isn't also trying to influence US elections. They very clearly are. But more than one country can be doing such a thing.