Asafum@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Fucking scum playing with words… I followed this shit as it was going on and never did anyone try to make the claim that Russia attempted to directly affect voting machines or results…
There’s a world of difference between having “Russian bot farms” pushing out fake stories to help get people to support Trump and Russia directly affecting voting machines… Both of which could be classified as trying to influence the election. So these scumbags use the language of “influence the election” and then point to reports that say there’s no evidence of “directly affecting vote totals” and pull some “Ha! Got ya! Now it’s time to go round up some Democrats and Democrat appointed employees to send to Alligator Auschwitz…”
Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
OK, so was there collusion?
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 days ago
There was coordination between members of the campaign (people like Paul manafort). Polling data from swing states was shared with known Russian actors which would help them target areas with “information.”
Again playing with words, Bill Bar jumped out in front of the release of the report to get the media focused on “no collusion no collusion!” and then when the report came out it showed there were some forms of coordination, but because the word collusion wasn’t used the Trump team spun it to sound as if nothing happened. Republicans sure are bent out of shape over a supposedly biased DOJ when it’s a Democrat in office, but this is two Republican administrations one after the other that the DOJ is working for Trump’s personal protection…
Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
But what we have is polling data from swing states here… This is not exactly hacked or highly secretive information, it differs only in that it has become suspicious because people providing it have Russian names and such.
… And all this about polling data?! Just wild.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 days ago
That’s not all it was about, that was just one example I happened to remember off the top of my head. I didn’t feel like going back and reading the whole report again to give more examples to be honest.