Trolls beware, the US just indicted a bunch of Russians for trolling Americans on social media.

Russian trolls are taunting Mueller already.

https://youtu.be/2Z4m4lnjxkY

100m wrote:

This is why I love rojo.

Rojo is great... doesn't give a f*** and unleashes 5 pages of outrage

It's illegal to disseminate fake news unless you are the American news media.

This is more of a " if it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck its a duck." when you are doing something and people know exactly what you are doing then its pretty clear that the feds stepping in is justified. their is a distinction between crime and organized crime right? petty theft can become racketeering if it is part of an organized plan. so if you are screwing around on facebook versus an organization screwing around on facebook....... well anyone other than an ignorant person with a political agenda could clearly see the difference.

rojo wrote:

That's it?

We are indicting people for screwing around on facebook?

Does freedom of speech not apply to non-citizens even though we give all sorts of benefits to non-citizens like free public school?

Let's hope trolling on letsrun.com by foreign nationals isn't indictable.

Which is an interesting position as it's clear that LRC has been a target of Russian trolls over the past few years. How does it feel to unwittingly abet a foreign power in an attempt to undermine our democracy? This is part and parcel of your anything goes posting policy. Own it, Rojo, you're culpable.

By the way, we *know* that Russian trolls have been on LRC.

The tipoff: their use of the term "this shenanigan" (singular).

The Russian trolls generally have excellent English skills--better than those of a large fraction of LRC posters--but they occasionally slip. Native speakers always speak of "these shenanigans" and never "this shenanigan"--native speakers never use the singular for this noun.

But Russian trolls sometimes do, including on LRC.

cunning linguist wrote:

The tipoff: their use of the term "this shenanigan" (singular).

cunning linguist wrote:

The tipoff: their use of the term "this shenanigan" (singular).

For what is worth, the person behind this shenanigan is using the following affiliate account number: 10115320.

cunning linguist wrote:

The tipoff: their use of the term "this shenanigan" (singular).

The result of this shenanigan: the Senate healthcare bill goes straight to Obama for his signature.

cunning linguist wrote:

The tipoff: their use of the term "this shenanigan" (singular).

Analysis: This shenanigan best displayed the North squad’s team chemistry, as all 22 players had a role. Bonus points for executing it in the first half — which means they must have developed it before the game — and for having the guts to do it so close to the defenders they had just beaten.

Hollywood too wrote:

cunning linguist wrote:

The tipoff: their use of the term "this shenanigan" (singular).

Groot Nadine : Bet I ate ten pounds in the last sixteen days. Before this shenanigan is over, I'll probably eat enough land to incorporate me in the Union. The state of Groot.

The Freedom Caucus members seem confident that voters in their constituencies won’t punish them for their hardline stance. They can’t be challenged in a primary from the right, not after this shenanigan. And in the past, their rejectionist tactics have gotten them re-elected.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-27/trump-s-frustrations-were-built-into-the-job

rojo wrote:

That's it?

We are indicting people for screwing around on facebook?

Does freedom of speech not apply to non-citizens even though we give all sorts of benefits to non-citizens like free public school?

Let's hope trolling on letsrun.com by foreign nationals isn't indictable.

Did you read the indictment or any of the news stories, beyond the that outlined the specific crimes that were committed. Let me give you the Cliff Notes version:

- Committing wire and bank fraud while moving money under false pretenses.

- Failing to register expenditures to the Federal Election Commission, or register as foreign agents with the U.S.

- Identity theft: stealing the identities of real Americans to impersonate US voices online and hide their tracks. This includes stealing American victims' sensitive details including their names, birth dates, social security numbers and home addresses to speak in their names online and launder payments for their social media ad buys.

SayWhat? wrote:

Did you read the indictment or any of the news stories, beyond the that outlined the specific crimes that were committed. Let me give you the Cliff Notes version:

- Committing wire and bank fraud while moving money under false pretenses.

- Failing to register expenditures to the Federal Election Commission, or register as foreign agents with the U.S.

- Identity theft: stealing the identities of real Americans to impersonate US voices online and hide their tracks. This includes stealing American victims' sensitive details including their names, birth dates, social security numbers and home addresses to speak in their names online and launder payments for their social media ad buys.

And how does any of this have anything at all to do with the narrative that the Russians swayed the election for Trump with collusion from Trump?

Give us the Cliff Notes version if you want.

Nuthin...No collusion. Lots of sad faces at CNN.

truthseakr wrote:

Nuthin...No collusion. Lots of sad faces at CNN.

Absolutely.

A real "nothing burger".

Yet the MSM plows ahead as if there is now evidence the Russians hacked our election.

Amazing.

Kind of like in 2007 when the US Intelligence agencies came out with an opinion that Iran had no nukes and, after a few days of mischaracterizing what the report said and calling the US agencies naive, the MSM went right back to talking about Iranian nukes as if they exist (while never a word about Israel's real nukes).

Simply amazing.

I agree. This is no big deal. So what, the Russians were helping Trump to get elected and against all odds he won. Nothingburger.

Balding Eagle wrote:

I agree. This is no big deal. So what, the Russians were helping Trump to get elected and against all odds he won. Nothingburger.

Really? How did the Russians help? Some posts in Facebook is what Mueller came up with. Is that it?