Seriously, this "journalism"/idiocy by CNN now actually claims Pokemon GO is part of the Russian hacking into the US elections as being successful.

CNN blames Pokemon GO as part of Russian Hacking

After 10 months of "investigations" this is what has come up - Russian trolls spent $100,000 on Facebook ads and used Pokemon Go.

Hillary spent $1.3 billion on her campaign, had the entire MSM media propagate for her, Hollywood propagate for her and PACs (Political Action Committees) spend an additional $2 billion backing her, the DNC colluded to crush her opponent and fed her the debate questions in advance, but it was Pokemon GO and "The Russians" - even Sen. McCarthy didn't blame the Red Scare this often.

I'm sure this thread will not create a heated debate. :p

McCarthyism really did do a number on the yanks didn't it. I reckon in 3 millenia space Americans will still be shouting about who is and isn't colluding with THE RUSSIANS!!!!

I find this anti-Russian hysteria in the US pretty scary tbh, it's potentially extremely dangerous.

Politics aside, I'm trying to connect the logical dots here, and there's simply a readout that says, "NO CARRIER".

???

When a political system is so broken that it puts up two candidates that are both hated by about 50% of the voters, scapegoats are an absolute necessity.

We may be coming to the end because they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days.

Countries interfere in other countries' elections sometimes.

Did the Russians try to meddle? Fairly likely.

Did the Russians actually influence the outcome? Incredibly unlikely. The media keeps screaming about it, but the vast, overwhelming majority of people doesn't trust the media at all and are really quite skeptical about the whole supposed Russian involvement thing. Nearly everyone I know has the same general outlook as I do: the Russians probably tried, why wouldn't they, same as probably a bunch of others, but it never amounted to anything worth mentioning. The words "Russian Hackers" are a big joke now. Or a meme if you will.

But no, nobody is actually buying this and nobody harbors any resentment. Well, except maybe the people who hate the current president so much that they will believe literally anything so long as it somehow is against him. I'm not a great fun, I voted for someone else, but yea, as always it's only the utterly deranged who are running around with one conspiracy theory or another.

The stupidity is that Russia and the USA are very much the same. Both are federal, presidential republics with market economies, huge inequality problems, and a multi-party system (with centre-right and centre-left parties), and of course both are essentially at the core oligarchies where the rich have huge power.

The whole US vs Russia thing made sense in the Cold War when it was Communism vs "Democracy", but these days it's pretty pointless.

But then again WW1 was fought by a bunch of countries with identical political systems so what do I know eh.

The US is much worse than Russia today.
Putin's regime wants Russia to be a great power and preserve its influence in former parts of the Soviet Union (Central Asia, Ukraine, Belarus)...obviously that's rather bad for people in Ukraine who are against Russian meddling in their country...but by itself it isn't a threat to world peace.
US elites have much vaster ambitions, they're really aiming at permanent global US hegemony and have an almost messianic desire to remake the world in America's image...which cannot but lead to severe, possibly catastrophic conflict.

Admitting mistakes is hard, pinning guilt on someone else is easy. And it's true for anybody, why politicians should be any different? It's just the way they are doing it tends to be ridiculous.

I find myself agreeing with this. The root of most problems nowadays is not what may or may not be going but is twofold. Firstly the media, once an institution for spreading news and enlightenment is now nothing more than a tool for spreading hysteria and falsehoods to further their own ends, and this goes for all of them, papers/news etc. worldwide, like the BBC for instance.

The second problem is the social media platforms freely available, which both compound the falsehoods and spread hysteria extremely quickly, and allow demagogues to run campaigns, and outraged wastrels with nothing better to do to generate further agendas, misinformation and other such processes at a rate never seen before.

Best thing in general would be a good sized meteor hitting the earth.

CNN...? Yeah right, even Al Jazzeera is far better and much more accurate! Or Kim's channel. What is CNN?

Heresy! Blasphemy! Western propaganda!
We have never chosen Pikachu, we prefer Cheburashka! :-P