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[โ€“] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're grossly underplaying the influence foreign governments have had on each other within the past century. They're going above and beyond "trying to trick you."

They're heavily investing in popular talking heads to support a path of radicalization, buying ads that target voters on Facebook, forming special interest social media groups, manipulating social media with bot farms, heavily bribing politicians, blackmailing the powerful, recruiting millionaires, lobbying policy, running a counterintelligence campaign, running hacking operations, and more that we don't even know. They're weaponizing intelligence and trying to convert people's opinions to their advantage so that their opponents crumble from within. And they're damn good at it.

Nobody's "just pointing" at Russia or other countries. We have a recorded history of them doing it, and we can trace it back to them. They're all doing it.

[โ€“] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

OK great. Amend your comment to mine. The last point still stands:

You counteract forgiven influence by giving people a reason to trust their local institutions. By delivering positive material change to hundreds of millions. Without that, it is just pointing fingers and complaining.