Putin has basically hobbled both the UK and the US with one racist vote in each country

[ProfessorPlum]

UK is on a collision course with Brexit, and looks like it will kill itself on the rocks of that horrible decision. And it was a single, racist vote.

The US is in the clutches of a Russian-controlled halfwit. and that is the result of a single, racist vote.

Funny how racism makes our societies weaker (and how easily Putin exploited that weakness with not a shot fired). Christ, we're dumb as a collective.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Has anybody investigated Brexit

for Russian meddling/contamination?

[ProfessorPlum]

2. yes, and it was found just like in our election

I'll try to find the links

[ProfessorPlum]

3. here are some links to at least two different reports

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/10/russian-influence-brexit-vote-detailed-us-senate-report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/uk/uk-brexit-russia-links-arron-banks-intl/index.html

http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/12/new-report-concludes-russian-social-media-interfered-in-uk-s-eu-referendum

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. If there is evidence of Russian meddling

Why is the UK planning(?) to move forward with Brexit?

[ProfessorPlum]

7. I've asked this question a million times

and apparently the answer is something like "its hard to undo/redo a referendum vote" like the one in Brexit.

But for their own sake and sanity, they need to just decide that it was a stupid idea and beg the EU to let them back in on similar terms as before. They've really fucked themselves. Almost as bad as we have.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Seems like it would be easier to wiggle out from that

than it apparently it is to overturn what seems to have been a SERIOUSLY fouled up American Presidential Election.


But what do I know?


Once this is all over, we need to figure out some kind of mechanism (i.e. Constitutional Amendment) to prevent a situation like this from ever and ensure that election meddling like this can result in an invalidation of electoral results and a redo. Impeachment was *supposed* to be a remedy for something like this but how can we even do that when *everybody* in power is potentially compromised?

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[WhiteTara]

6. Not so dumb as self absorbed.

When you think of no one or nothing beyond yourself, it is the basis for destruction all around.

White people as a whole are just a bunch of wypipo in that they consider white to be the default color and male to be the default sex.

I look forward to the day when we are all shades of brown; amber, golden, mahogany, teak, cedar as the dna of all our ancestors swirl into a true melting pot of sentient beings. All beings want to be happy and none want to suffer. Only by extending ourselves to others can we experience happiness.