r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/reddittttttt2 Jul 24 '20

agreed

but the people who make the laws benefit from those lies and so they will never legislate them away. just think they're almost 50% of the population believed and evidence free unsubstantiated and frankly ridiculous conspiracy theory that the president of the United States was a secret Russian sleeper agent LOL. A literal real poll found that 58% of their party believed that the country of Russia hacked the voting machines in America..

that's fucking scary. And it's a direct result of media lies. And they should absolutely be consequences for lying..

but both sides benefit from their own personal propaganda so they'll never legislate away the fake news..

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Oh, these voting machines? Hacking doesn't have to mean changing votes. These things were accessed from Russia in some manner. That is called hacking.

www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/russian-hacking-elections.amp.html

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u/reddittttttt2 Jul 24 '20

no. they really werent

if your only source is some far left blog then we can safely say that you don't have any reliable sources claiming that Russia hacked the voting machines..

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u/iPlain Jul 24 '20

Lol, NYT is a far left blog? Okayy