Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "How Does Sam Really Feel About Russian Interference?" video.

  1. That's laughable.
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  2. @Alex Anderson Russia's entire military budget is less than the amount we increase ours by annually. They just magically get a thousand-fold return on every ruble they spend and voilà - Skynet.
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  3.  Andrew Brent  Anti-Soviet? The Russians aren't the USSR anymore. Jfc
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  4. @Blue Moon So was running the 2nd least liked candidate in modern history. But, yeah, it was the Facebook ads what did it.
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  5.  Brexit Refugee  It's always shocking to me how poor and/or dishonest people's reasoning becomes when they broach this topic. Basically no one seriously argues that Russia had zero influence. That certainly wasn't the claim Sam made. If you stopped the Russiagate chatter in your head for two seconds and listened, you'd know that Sam said there is no evidence that Russian influence was decisive. That's just a factual statement supported by data on how much the Russians spent, the timing of the ads, the quality and content of the ads, how people interacted with them, and the greater context. Whatever effect Russian ads played in the election, it's almost impossible to disaggregate it from the political context, and it's much more likely that corporate influence, Clinton's decades-long bad public image, feeble campaign strategy etcetera played decisive roles. It's also objectively false that everything Trump has done benefited Russia over the US, from his placing tariffs on them, expelling diplomats, and launching strikes against its allies. Trump has shown a high degree of permissiveness toward Russia and other authoritarian countries, but the claim that he's only acted in Russia's interests is silly liberal nonsense that seeks to personalize politics rather than to understand it as a system, which exists with a certain degree of overdetermination.
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  6.  stealthballer  Sure, if we just make up numbers and naively assign causality, what you said makes perfect sense.
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  7.  Brexit Refugee  I don't care where you're from. If you're looking for the idiot in this conversation, find the nearest mirror. I didn't mention any news sources; in fact, I didn't mention the media at all, so if anyone's got a wee little battle going on in their head, again, it's you buddy. Interesting bringing up the French election though, because if Russia's Facebook memes were "decisive" in the US election, surely they'd've been in the French election...oh wait, no, they weren't, not even close. It's almost like their real effect is negligible and that we should be paying proportionately more attention to immediate, endemic, systemic problems. Huh...
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  8.  Cool Breeze  What does that have to do with anything? Please, enlighten me Lincoln Project lib.
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  9.  @samzen9031  Chris Haney used the gamer word.
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  10.  Cool Breeze  Yeah she had the lowest favorability of any modern candidate after Trump. She had the lowest pop vote winning vote share since Clinton in 92 - and that only because Perot did so well. She had a lower share of the vote than Kerry. If you're not aware how much Clinton has been reviled in this country, you haven't been paying any attention. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the 2nd least favored candidate in modern history narrowly beat the least favored in the popular vote but, because she's a terrible campaigner and politician, managed to lose the EC.
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  11. Apparently it took a few hundred thousand dollars in scattershot Facebook memes, which dwarfs the...uh billions spent on the election domestically...somehow. In fact, Putin is so crafty, and his budget-sized military so well provisioned, that they were able to replicate their success in 2016 and 2018 when downballot Democrats won. Uh...what?
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  12.  Cool Breeze  Lotta libs getting salty in the comments, I see.
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  13. What an incredibly stupid, long-winded comment.
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  14.  Brexit Refugee  The brain rot on this lib.
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  15.  @Dante3214  I made it elsewhere. Didn't feel like copy pasting. Love the Stefan Molyneux line, though. That's good. Haven't heard it in awhile.
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  16. We've got libs in the comments calling Putin's Russia "the Soviets." Apparently a lot of people never progressed past 1991.
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