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Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compensate for the shock of Hillary losing.

I also find it ironic that the Chinese Communist Party, an institution which is at least on par with Russia in terms of shadiness and social repression, receives barely an iota of the flak that Russia receives in the American media.

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> another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia

Imagine if Germany found out that Rocket Internet, a large European venture capital firm, was actually CIA backed. It would be a scandal and a lot of people would need to, rightly, question whether they had been compromised.

The problem isn't solely the identity of the backer. It's the surreptitious deployment of state power deep into another country.

Disclaimer: Hypotheticals are hypothetical. I am not a lawyer. None of this is legal advice.

It came out fairly recently that the US was bugging German politicians communication, and while there was mild outrage at the time it seems to have blown over without much consequence.

Compromised? Compromised the shoe retail business?

You are going to need some more meat other than James Bond language and a lot of money.

You don’t understand that states covertly use money to exercise power? I’m confused why you’re harping on that word unless you genuinely don’t understand what he’s getting at.

I’d like to buy into the “nothingburger” case on Russian interference,but how do you explain the growing weight of released evidence that the Russians actively worked to interfere in the election? Were the Russians wasting their resources trolling? Is all the evidence fabricated?

Its worth discussing it - rather than dismissing it as hysteria.

Peter Thiel alone has outspent all of those Russians we've been hearing so much about.

That's not exactly reassuring.

Another day, another alt-right account that sees nothing troubling about ties to Russian state interests. And then engages in some whataboutism regarding China for good measure.

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