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[AcademicSaucer]

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/07/15/how-often-has-us-meddled-in-others-elections.cnn

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

It is known. They've been doing it for decades, especially in South America. Anyone who doesn't believe this is kidding themselves and needs to read a book or two.

 

[JettDash]

Yes, but we are the ones who do the fucking, not the ones who get fucked.

Well at least until that orange piece of shit and his master.

 

[skullmuffins]

OK.

Edit: I would also not fault any of those countries for objecting to US meddling in their elections, or for people in those countries to oppose parties who worked in conjunction with the US to influence their elections.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

I mean

Duh

 

[FlutterPuffs]

Malaysia? WHY I NEVER-

To be honest most of us here would have loved if it has worked.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

Yep.

 

[Seesaw15]

That number seems too low.

 

[And_Gignac]

In before "whataboutism".

 

[FiraB]

That number seems too low.

It probably is.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Duh

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I'd like to see the threshold criteria for "meddling" please and how it compares to Russia's actions.

 

[Marion Cobretti]

Yes, but we are the ones who do the fucking, not the ones who get fucked.

Was bound to happen.

Nobody likes a taste of their own medicine.

 

[Linkstrikesback]

This strikes me as deliberately using the loosest possible definition of meddling ever in order to get as big a list as possible.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

That number seems too low.

Besides elections you have the times where the US has imposed a dictator or toppled goverments in other countries since the end of WW2

 

[Juicy Bob]

The UK?

 

[FlutterPuffs]

I'd like to see the threshold for "meddling" please and how it compares to Russia's actions.

it's no big deal. Just secret arms deals, military training, sponsoring campaigns and the occasional assassinations.

 

[And_Gignac]

I'd like to see the threshold for "meddling" please and how it compares to Russia's actions.

Does organizing a coup that killed ("suicide'd") a democratically elected president in Chile counts?

 

[Widdle Puppy]

it's okay if the usa does it but no one else and especially not to us

 

[KNT-Zero]

Yes, but we are the ones who do the fucking, not the ones who get fucked.

Well at least until that orange piece of shit and his master.

With a mentality like that, you definitely deserve to be the one getting fucked.

 

[butzopower]

The UK?

US got the Queen re-elected in '63 right before the FBI killed JFK.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

I'd like to see the threshold criteria for "meddling" please and how it compares to Russia's actions.

are you familiar with the US's role in Iran prior to their revolution?

 

[BocoDragon]

Yes, but we are the ones who do the fucking, not the ones who get fucked.

Well at least until that orange piece of shit and his master.

Is this...... Team America logic?

 

[Flo_Evans]

We are the worlds parents sometimes ya gotta do as I say not as I do you know. Fucking kids. One more word and you're getting invaded.

 

[CoolOff]

Iceland...? When? Why?

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Does organizing a coup that killed ("suicide'd") a democratically elected president in Chile counts?

If the list is so broad that they're going to include places like the UK, I'd like to know what their standards are. Problem?

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

it's no big deal. Just secret arms deals, military training, sponsoring campaigns and the occasional assassinations.

Yup, there are a more than a couple of dictators that have seized power from democratically elected leaders in their respective countries with he backing of the United States. Not sure if many Americans realise how much grief their country has caused in so many foreign nations.

 

[BocoDragon]

Iceland...? When? Why?

Eve Online is serious business.

 

[kAmui-]

It's okay, America's the good guy!

 

[Conciliator]

sure it seems bad now, but you shoulda been at the CIA in the 60s, man. It was grooooooovy.

 

[SephiZack]

We are the worlds parents sometimes ya gotta do as I say not as I do you know. Fucking kids. One more word and you're getting invaded.

I know this is a joke but wouldn't USA be the world's children? Historically speaking

 

[Sojgat]

America's not so innocent.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

Yup, there are a more than a couple of dictators that have seized power in their respective countries from democratically elected leaders with the backing of the United States. Not sure if many Americans realise how much grief their country has caused in so many foreign nations.

reason why I scoff at the notion that the mean old russian hackers somehow decided the 2016 us election. one because they didn't and two because it pales in comparison to the previous actions of our own state.

 

[Slime]

I mean, Western meddling in post-war Berlin and pretty much every Iron Curtain or remotely left-leaning international election was pretty much the first of the shots fired in the Cold War.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

America's not so innocent.

You don't say

 

[Business]

Iceland...? When? Why?

Strategic military base I guess.

 

[Ratrat]

Fuck America, yeah!

 

[TheUzukiLives]

Yes, but we are the ones who do the fucking, not the ones who get fucked.

Well at least until that orange piece of shit and his master.

There was a time when we were the fuckers, but now we have become the fuckies.

 

[Grenouille]

Leaders of the "free" world though

 

[BocoDragon]

reason why I scoff at the notion that the mean old russian hackers somehow decided the 2016 us election. one because they didn't and two because it pales in comparison to the previous actions of our own state.

I don't think they "decided" the US election... but they did directly meddle and moved the needle a little bit, yes?

I don't disagree that the US is not innocent in doing similar things.

 

[tim.mbp]

Monroe Doctrine in full effect.

 

[PBalfredo]

ok.

Russia's meddling is still intolerable

 

[CHC]

I know this is a joke but wouldn't USA be the world's children? Historically speaking

Think of it like Family Ties.

 

[Mass_Pincup]

Spreading "Freedom" in every continent!

 

[DJwest]

Fighting for "freedom".

 

[cheezcake]

If the list is so broad that they're going to include places like the UK, I'd like to know what their standards are. Problem?

It's good to know the standard for meddling but your tone was extremely dismissive, which is jarring considering we all know the US has done incredibly heinous shit to instil a leader they like.

Assassinations and breeding civil wars which led to the deaths of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people is a little worse than Russia spamming the internet with fake news.

 

[madstarr12]

Indeed. But how many of them have led to an election victory of an idiot?

 

[Rmagnus]

Indeed. But how many of them have led to an election victory of an idiot?

Lol well most countries tend not to allow idiots reach the finals.

 

[Real Hero]

Anyone interesting in this should read this book

 

[RastaMentality]

Indeed. But how many of them have led to an election victory of an idiot?

many. genocidal idiots too.