That is pretty impressive, but what really pushed 45 over the finish line was all the blacks staying home on election day. That is where the bulk of the Russian work was aimed.
Absolutely, hijacking 'news' on Black Live Matters and Kappernick's kneeling and elevating the stories in twitter/youtube so that the major news outlets would report on them, then flood the comment sections with their trolls firing up each side with the exact language that will tear down any relationships if they creep into this territory.
Edit: Also hit hard were the brown communities in places like Dearborn with voter suppression. That is the point, every community, every person was attacked and 'nudged' into wherever they landed and that is where the bubble forms. The more and more they can nudge people into a better Bubble for the Russian Military to use to get Trump re-elected in the particular district they live in the easier their job is.
Then using the people who would sign up for their Facebook pages they could then follow them around online and make sure whichever camp they wound up in they would be slammed with propaganda either firing up the Trump supporters into a fury to vote, while depressing the black vote with a nonstop barrage of the kind of garbage that is just a slight twist to:
I'm not brought in to anything. For a long time I realized something was wrong with capitalism, especially with how rents go up much faster these days than inflation in relation to wage growth.
The majority who work in San Francisco don't make enough to even pay the rent of a studio apartment, which the average is $2,500 a month! That's just plain disgusting. That whole $15 or bust BS wouldn't do a damn thing to help. It would pay their rent EXAXTLY! But what about food, utilities, cell phone. and transportation costs?
Those people had the hate in them long before so called Russians "converted" them. The only thing which happened is they got pissed enough to show their true colors, because of their stupidity at being easily triggered.
But the left gets triggered just as easily, blaming their problems on an imaginary boogeyman, because they failed to see this was happening for a long time and had their head in the sand pretending they had no idea.
If both sides took an inventory into themselves, none of this would be going on.
How much faster are rent going up these days, do you have actual facts on this you can point to? Just saying a number that sounds high is meaningless, I thought I just did a solid job describing why that is, because you can just say anything you want and stuff numbers in it to sound good.
This is not a left or right thing, which is what
@too larry just brought up. This is anyone that is online is getting barraged with propaganda by Trump/Russia/Saudi/Etc from all sides. Once they identify what triggers you they then know how to steer you to your bubble.
For the people on the left, they have a sock puppet like and respond to the leftist comments to give them that good feeling, then log into the 'right' account and attack them from that angle calling names doing the worst, which leads to the 'left' account coming to their defense, which they then start to use key trigger words on the other side to teach the person caught in this scam.
That person caught in the scam is then constantly listening/seeing increasingly harsh responses/language and build up a tolerance to it. Then next time they post something and are attacked they respond a little harder, rinse and repeat for several years, people are just instantly going right to the troll whenever they 'feel' attacked.
But what it really at the end of the day is just sophisticated advertising.
"Nudge Theory"
