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redgreenandblue

(2,088 posts)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:46 AM Feb 2018

I wonder how many Russian trolls were posing as Hillary supporters.

The single most effective tactic to dissuade voters who were sort of on the fence from turning out would have been to pretend to be a Hillary supporter and then behave in a particularly obnoxious in arrogant way.

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OnDoutside

(19,982 posts)
5. No, I disagree, although it was probably the LEAST effective strategy, as
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:53 AM
Feb 2018

most Hillary supporters would immediately spot any such tactic.

Funtatlaguy

(10,890 posts)
3. Thousands
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:53 AM
Feb 2018

Don’t you feel like you are living in the twilight zone?
How could this have happened in our country?

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
6. I think he meant fake radical feminazi cartoon characters like the extremist cartoon BLM supporters
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:58 AM
Feb 2018

They played at on Twitter. I saw very few of the later.
I saw many men fly off the handle becasue women knew more about issues than they did. In their tiny minds these were “feminazis” because they dared contradict them.

JI7

(89,279 posts)
7. you can wonder many things the way Trump does with Hillary, Comey, Uranium etc.b ut we have actual
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:58 AM
Feb 2018

facts about what happened .

airmid

(500 posts)
8. I remember distinctly at the DNC Convention, the vendor selling Tshirts with Hillary
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:26 AM
Feb 2018

looking like a Mao poster and Sanders depicted in very derogatory WWII iconography as a rat, much as the Jews were depicted in Nazi literature. Who was this vendor? I have tried unsuccessfully to find out. Who designed these shirts? I think there is a whole mess of stuff the Russians were involved in that we haven't even touched yet.

ms liberty

(8,610 posts)
10. It would be naive to think there were none
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 11:03 AM
Feb 2018

Putin's purpose was and is to create chaos and destroy America. He was trained as a Soviet KGB agent, and he's made his way to the top and stayed there, consolidating his power, wealth and control. He is smart and savvy. And ruthless, and committed to bringing down our democracy.
So of course his trolls were, and still are pitting democrats against each other, just like they're deepening the existing divisions between democrats and independents and republicans, and liberals and moderates and conservatives.


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