Russia and China have been waging a cyber war against the U.S. for a long time now. Russian accounts on social media have been effective at sowing dissent, chaos, conspiracy theories, and false information. Tim Pool and others on Russia’s payroll is clear evidence of this.
The lesson of the day is that the U.S. is far more conservative than I thought. Trump is the President we deserve and we deserve what comes next. White rural voters will not be helped by him and I will not shed any tears at their plight.
It is additionally also possible that a democracy with more or less independent media is much more vulnerable than a dictatorship with state-controlled media. The democracies in the world better wise up quickly and figure out a way to become resilient against this.
