[cryptoz]

> if you compare the amount of money allegedly spent by "the russians" VS the amount of money spent by "the americans" themselves, talking about "the russian takeover" of Twitter or Facebook is pure hysteria.

The amount of money is a single metric and not what we should use to base every decision on or understand an entire complex issue from a single source (money). The Russian ads were very well crafted to be easily sharable and to be viral. The amount of money they spent has little to do with how much influence they have.

Your entire post is "whataboutism". What about the Americans being bad? What about CNN being bad? What about ABC being bad? What about most Russians just trying to make ends meet? What about MSNBC? What about Fox news?

I don't care.

The Russians are actively doing this on Twitter, right now. The others are bad too. That doesn't mean anything at all about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Whataboutism, a classic Russian distraction tactic, by the way.

[3131s]

The Red Scare, a classic American delusion.

[cryptoz]

Are you suggesting that I'm delusional for seeing a threat in Russia's actions recently?

[Koshkin]

You are delusional if you focus on Russia as a threat. It's like all these talks about guns. Guns and Russia are the least of our problems.