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U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election
(www.nytimes.com)
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AIPAC has spent $100m influencing US elections this year to ensure their preferred candidates win and we are supposed to believe Russia is the threat?
Both things can be true.
And only 1 is being addressed
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good.
No one's talking about perfect, We're only talking about a level playing field.
Yeah, money is politics is bad. Also, foreign governments interfering in our elections is bad. You discovered the principle of more than one thing can be bad at once.
There are levels of bad, $100m in elections is by far worse
No, fire hose of misinformation is worse. $100m buys a few races, maybe. Fire hose breaks down an entire societies' trust in reality.
Seriously? Your response to this is a whataboutism. And the topic is regarding Russian disinformation campaigns. Was the irony intended?
Pointing out a more blatant and damaging form of election influence is not whataboutism.
It needs to be addressed because one is being blatantly ignored, and the one being ignored is the larger of the threats
The kleptocracy trying to get Trump elected (which means Palestine gets wiped out) is the less dangerous threat?
Yeah I'm good. Have fun reposting this same broken logic talking point I've seen multiple .ml accounts spewing today.
Less dangerous, are you fucking serious?
You're sacrificing Palestinians to genocide that you are largely responsible for it being able to happen at all, and your argument is 'Well it's a less dangerous threat to me'.
Have some empathy.
If you haven't noticed, Palestine is currently getting wiped out. I never claimed that Trump was a lesser evil or lesser threat because lesser evil or lesser threat does not exist