• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You could make the argument that Russian interference helped give us Trump in 2016 and that Chinese Military run TikTok’s promotion helped him in 2024, so yes those two actually did do that pretty recently, yeah.

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      21 hours ago

      You sure could argue that. Correlation doesn’t equal causation. You could also contribute trump’s 2024 win to the 10 million less democrats who decided not to vote. I doubt all 10 million of those were because of tiktok.

      musk didn’t own twitter or contribute $220 million to trump’s campaign in 2016 either.

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        21 hours ago

        No, correlation doesn’t equal causation, but causation certainly is causation, so maybe those violent dictatorships aren’t better than the third one they’re attempting to create.