Russians want us to be divided and they're causing division. Except no, they're not causing it.

[ck4829]

Now don't get me wrong, Putin and his gang of looters and murderers are bad no doubt and they have a lot to answer for, but they aren't making right wingers say statues matter more than black lives, Russians aren't making them say we were good "Before the civil war even though there might have been 'some' slavery" and I don't think Russians forced people into almost voting the man who said this into the Senate, Russians didn't force them to enter Mosques at gunpoint and trash them, Tony Perkins and other leaders of the Christian Right don't speak with Russian accents as they dehumanize and demonize our GLBTQ Americans, Russians didn't blow scopolamine into their faces so they would attack Obama for wearing a tan suit but give Trump a pass on every scandal, and I'm pretty sure there were no Russians at the rally where the guy said he couldn't wait for the "liberal genocide to begin". That was all our "other side of the aisle", baby.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. However their trolls amplified all of the items you listed

by spreading the disinformation via social media far and wide. I.e., they tapped and engaged those normally disengaged with politics, by injecting politics into their social media feeds in order to invoke some type of emotional reaction that pulled them away from their normal social media banter.

[marylandblue]

2. +1 That's exactly how propaganda works

It takes existing divisions and exploits them. Hitler didn't invent anti-semitism, he just made it much worse.

[WhiteTara]

3. Their job was to create chaos and they were excellent

they amplified both voices where it would do the most harm.