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Everytime I read these kind of takes, I think to myself ‘Where the fuck is Russia getting all this money to mess with the USA election?’

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Naomi Klein is a real person with a real history of political opinions not controlled by shadowy Russian masterminds. Maybe, just maybe, you’re hearing this criticism all over the place because it’s actually a real issue and “must be Russians” is a comfortable mental shutoff to avoid thinking about how the ego of the most powerful person in the country could be leading us into political danger.

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He’s Joe Buchanan

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Maybe the answer is that Russia isn’t doing what you think they’re doing. Blaming the failures of our electoral system on Russia is so 2016.

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Eh, I mean they did mess around, but they were mainly just exacerbating existing issues and fault lines.

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That’s exactly how it works. Find the fault lines and apply pressure. If you do it right, it doesn’t even cost much.

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… yeah they are

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They still have enough oil for this - and American politicians are cheap.

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Stop blaming all your problems on another government

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