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Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

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Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

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post #4

What exactly is the code or law that is being broken here? Don't get me wrong - guys like this should be shutdown. By who is altogether another debate. The govt rarely loses when they bring cases like this - so they probably think they have a pretty airtight case. Any background or clarification would be helpful - as both the press release and complaint are scant on details. EDIT: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/t…

If you read the complaint, it describes more than one conspirator.

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But actually, stupid people are more likely to get viruses, and I've never fallen for any scams.

That has actually nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with experience in certain arenas. You haven't fallen prey to scams because you are experienced with avoiding scams. I guarantee there are people who are a hell of a lot smarter than you, know a hell of a lot more about many areas than you, who have very little experience avoiding internet scams (for one reason or another) who might well fall prey…

What does it say about their intelligence that they didn't choose to learn about internet scams, given how devastating they can be?

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#33
post #11

The announcement is dated: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 (today) > Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, 31, of West Palm Beach, was charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District of New York. He was taken into custody this morning So he was taken into custody this morning. (today) > As alleged in the complaint, between September 2016 and November 2016, in the lead up to the Nov. 8, 2016, U.S. Presidential Election…

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but to spell it out: one good hypothesis might be that the victor in the election in question left office last week and doesn't control the justice department anymore. The same guy fired one FBI director and two attorneys general during the same term. This case seems to be based on a handful of public tweets and some phone records that can be trivially subpoenaed. It's clearly been…

A case like this doesn’t go from 0 to 100 in a week.

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#35
post #2

The meme in question: https://twitter.com/squid_o_the_day/status/13544897278319697...

> ironically the joke meme the rеtard stalinists are now hysterically pretending was "еlection interference" is basically how they interfered with this еlection.

Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in Clickbaitian. Will someone who is please translate?

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#37
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but to spell it out: one good hypothesis might be that the victor in the election in question left office last week and doesn't control the justice department anymore. The same guy fired one FBI director and two attorneys general during the same term. This case seems to be based on a handful of public tweets and some phone records that can be trivially subpoenaed. It's clearly been…

A case like this doesn’t go from 0 to 100 in a week.

I think that's parent's point. The case was stuck at "99" (like the old IE progress bar) internally, and only now has it been permitted to reach "100"

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That has actually nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with experience in certain arenas. You haven't fallen prey to scams because you are experienced with avoiding scams. I guarantee there are people who are a hell of a lot smarter than you, know a hell of a lot more about many areas than you, who have very little experience avoiding internet scams (for one reason or another) who might well fall prey…

What does it say about their intelligence that they didn't choose to learn about internet scams, given how devastating they can be?

It says that they've had better things to do with their time than waste a lot of it on the internet.

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>ironically the joke meme the rеtard stalinists are now hysterically pretending was "еlection interference" is basically how they interfered with this еlection. Trolling aside, what does this outburst mean in relation to the image?

It was a joke and Democrats claimed it was election interference

This account is clearly a troll account specifically targeting this post.

A moderator needs to cull this.

Re: Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference

#40
post #2

The meme in question: https://twitter.com/squid_o_the_day/status/13544897278319697...

>ironically the joke meme the rеtard stalinists are now hysterically pretending was "еlection interference" is basically how they interfered with this еlection. Trolling aside, what does this outburst mean in relation to the image?

The tweet is an example of what seems to be the right's favorite method of argument of late:

Decontextualize the subject to the point where it can be equated to something the left has done/previously supported.

Here, the left voted by mail in larger numbers than the right. That's how they interfered with the election, supposedly. Just like the sign is recommending voting from home.

See also: BLM riots are the same as an insurrection, Obama started family separation at the border.

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