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by DyslexicAtheist 2840 days ago
USA alone is responsible for Trump not Russia. Russia is background noise. Yes they set the stage, but in the current climate they are overrated. All they had to do is push the dominos already lined up. They did the same thing in Europe - yet none of the far-right camps made it yet (apart from Austria).

Amercia got exactly the president it deserves.
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prolikewh0a 2840 days ago
How did Russia set that stage in a manner that $6.5 billion [1] (publicly known at least!) along with thousands and thousands of hours of free & corporate biased advertising via mainstream media couldn't defeat? $100,000 in mixed republican/liberal ads surely had nothing on $6.5 billion.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/someb...

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