Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators (cnn.com) 232
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run on Facebook during the presidential election, after they obtained a search warrant for the information. Facebook gave Mueller and his team copies of ads and related information it discovered on its site linked to a Russian troll farm, as well as detailed information about the accounts that bought the ads and the way the ads were targeted at American Facebook users, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The disclosure, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may give Mueller's office a fuller picture of who was behind the ad buys and how the ads may have influenced voter sentiment during the 2016 election...
As CNN reported Thursday, Facebook is still not sure whether pro-Kremlin groups may have made other ad buys intended to influence American politics that it simply hasn't discovered yet. It is even possible that unidentified ad buys may still exist on the social media network today.
As CNN reported Thursday, Facebook is still not sure whether pro-Kremlin groups may have made other ad buys intended to influence American politics that it simply hasn't discovered yet. It is even possible that unidentified ad buys may still exist on the social media network today.
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Lock him up!
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Lock him up!
Donald Trump will go down in history as the first POTUS to leave office in handcuffs.
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Completely unprecedented. But it will be awesome.
Something tells me there will be a two word response as people run out of their houses. I think we all know what that is.
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Lock him up!
Donald Trump will go down in history as the first POTUS to leave office in handcuffs.
Goodness me, the Ivans are out in force with mod points today.
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That's what wingnuts said about the Clinton's, for the same brain dead partisan reasons. Before you start up with that "Ivan" shit again, you must have been one of those assholes running around in 2003, saying anyone who questioned the Iraq war of loving Saddam.
You were full of shit then, and you're full of shit now.
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3) Grab them by the pussy.
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Nice to hear your spin Igor, but Trump and his gang are still on the wrong side of the law.
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It's hilarious that Trump, who spread that racist lie about Obama's birth place is a stone cold traitor.
This piece of shit is going down in history as one of the world's worst traitors, after his Russian funded empire presidency crumbles.
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It's hilarious that Trump, who spread that racist lie about Obama's birth place is a stone cold traitor.
FYI: That was hillary clinton. [telegraph.co.uk] It was her idea in order to stop him from being a candidate in the DNC primary. Enjoy your craziness for the day. You can also find WAPO articles on it if you want, including articles from the guy that the Clinton campaign passed the info to and was sent to Africa and tried to find out if it was true or not.
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Your link directly contradicts your claim. The linked article refers to a 2004 conspiracy theory about Obama's religion, not place of birth, which was due to Andy Martin, not Hillary Clinton.
You should not have been modded up, quite the contrary.
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Unfortunately the article does not support your claim.
What it says is:
Do you have evidence that Mrs Clinton or her staff have supported or spr
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No, what's "hilarious" is that after putting up with asinine right wing bullshit from Republicans (birth certificates, Vince Foster, running heroin through Arkansas) Democrats have decided its their turn to engage in fact-free partisan buuuuuuuuuuullshit.
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Some Russians bought ads on the world's largest social network!? HOLY FUCK TRUMP MUST BE INVOLVED! PUTIN! NAZIS! #IMPEACH
If the ads were partisan (which the general public does not know) and the foreign purchaser did not register as a foreign agent, that would be a criminal offense under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. [wikipedia.org] Whether or not Trump is involved is a question that is most certainly already under investigation.
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It is very unfair of Russians to interfere with other countries' elections but what part of it is Trump campaign acting illegally?
Trump aside, do we really belive click bait ads made non-Trump supporters change their mind and vote Trump?
Have we abandoned reasoning? In my view the fair thing is to say Russians rooted for Trump because Trump was open he would treat them better than Clinton, and Trump campaign was happy that the Dem campaign was hacked, even if Dems said there was nothing worthwhile in those e
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Since all if that was more or less known before the wlection, how come the DNC, Clinton and slmost all the media were so confident she was going to win? The only answer that make sense to me was *they* didn't think it was relevant, and more importantly, they didn't know their voters.
That last part is the most justified way of politicians losing an election.
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Get over it, Trump won, for better or worse.
Worse. 1) Cheated 2) Devalued the office of the president of the USA 3) Grab them by the pussy.
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Now that Mueller is running the biggest criminal investigation in world history (Russia and Trump's coup), and that Russia's criminal aggression and deceit is coming out, I expect arrests.
I'll laugh so hard when all the Putin-lovers are in jail, tossing Bubba's salad.
As the steadfast Republicans are finding out, there is not a limit on where these investigations go. I recall ehy giggled like schoolgirls as their moral touchstone, a man of highes saintly caliber refused to respond to rapists at Baylor, and now has reaped much Karma.
But I digress, The good Mr Starr, when the Republicans decided it was time to take Little Willy Clinton down, started with the Whitewater S&L scandal. Oops, nothing there. So now it is Paula Jones. Hmm, about as trustworthy and attent
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And Al Capone was caught on Tax Evasion. What's your point. Just as Capone was taken down by an extraneous conviction, so was Slick Willy. Everybody KNEW Capone was a psycopath, only half of the country thought Slick Willy was evil and corrupt. It was just made GLARINGLY obvious when Hillary got anywhere near the White House, that shady shit would and did happen.
Well then, you are completely accepting and applaud anything that happens to Trump then, eh? That is my point. Shit what goes around, shit what comes around, and Karma and case law make for your own ox getting gored, or hoist by your own petard as they say.
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Clinton wasn't impeached for 'a goddamn blowjob'. He was impeached for lying under oath about a blowjob. Whatever your opinions on various sexual acts you probably agree lying under oath is wrong.
His answer was indeed wrong. For myself, I would answer "None of your business" and tell them to put me in jail for contempt. I wonder if He could have been impeached if Starr asked "Have you stopped beating Hillary yet?"
The point is not that he lied under oath. The point is that they went to that extent to go after him. Especially since the Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky association is so very interesting.
A secondary point of interest is that while it was apparently such a moral act, that the good Mr
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Do you seriously think sexual harassment is not a serious issue? Or is it just not an issue when a Clinton is involved?
Hey- he was pretty sleazy. My second point is that a lot of people are applying different metrics to sleaze. Do you seriously think that getting an adversary of the US is less of a big deal than a blow job? I get it, Trump supporters are yearning for the US to emulate Russia.
But my first point, somewhere back in this thread, is that once your history is looked into, they find and act on what they find. Your boy would be doing better if the decision came down that they need to move on to a different tack i
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Then get her a sweet job at the pentagon she was in no way qualified for. That couldn't have been about keeping her quiet? Nobody qualified wanted that job. There are no victims...
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As I Trump supporter I fucking pray dems somehow win the house in 2018 and immediately impeach him over a fucking Russian facebook ad.
My personal hope is that Trump supporters declare war on the rest of us. It's about time for Civil war number 2. So get out there, and MAGA.
Making chem trailing antivaxxers look brilliant (Score:2)
Swiftboating. Pure, undiluted Swiftboating. Criminal interference in other countries is what you fuckers do. Bullshit invasions, [theguardian.com] regime change, overthrowing democracies, kidnapping & torturing people to death [wikipedia.org].....it's. all. you.
Besides all the other plotholes in the Russiagate McCarthyism [hackernoon.com], we're supposed to belie
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How about Russians?
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How about Russians?
You should ask the media. The Trump-Russian narritive suddenly got very quiet about a month or so back, right around the time th at Debbie Washamaln Schultz's "IT guy" was arrested while trying to leave the country, and that one just keeps getting more interesting. Including that he sold emails(of nearly all the democrats) and classified information to multiple foreign governments.
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Ah good ol'WAPO. Read this one and enjoy yourself. [dailycalle...dation.org]
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Not exclusively, as the only organizations actually denied tax-exempt status were ones that supported Democrats. Doesn't stop wingnuts from repeating a stupid talking point, though....otherwise they wouldn't be wingnuts.
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You've deluded yourself into thinking that your brand of toadies serving rich elites are any better than the other brand of toadies serving a different faction of rich elites.
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"And now, it's our turn." - Democrats
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The shadow government which is unelected and unanswerable to the people is the real power here.
Which is fine by me, if the alternative is Donald Trump running things.
If there's a goddamn Illuminati or whatever, now would be a good time to wake the fuck up and take the wheel.
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Nothing says "Take me seriously!" like a good old fashioned conspiracy theory backed up with zero facts of any sort!
Alex Jones is good for a few things, namely:
1: A good laugh
2: Source material for a drinking game
3: Proving the adage about a fool and their money oh so very right (no pun intended) on a daily basis
The one thing he is NOT good for, is a source of information to cite if you want any non-kool aid drinker to do anything other than roll their eyes, groan, and immediately dismiss you as some crackpot conspiracy nut who probably has tinfoil lining in his underwear. Do yourself a favor and expand your horizons a little in terms of "news" consumption.
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What if Russia-gate never happened, it was a total lie? Zero credible evidence so far.
That Mueller is desperately fishing everywhere is quite telling.
That Slashdot continues its blanket coverage of this story, almost certainly fake news, is also telling.
Oh, shut up Boris, you're boring.
Seriously, if you are actually an American, secede and declare war on us already.
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Why are you constantly using a Bulgarian name as an ethnic slur against the Russians?
Because I love trolling the Russians and you. Now go collect your rubles. Mikhail
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How is that trolling if you use an unrelated name? Sounds more like a noob trying too hard. And Mikhael is Jewish, by the way.
Whooshies,
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So you really do think that you are genuinely funny.
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So you really do think that you are genuinely funny.
I'm the straight man - allowing you fo be funny. Yer doin a helluva job!
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Boris Becker
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Boris Godunov, Boris Pasternak, Boris Yeltsin, Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Johnson, ...
Strange that he didn't know there are people in Russia named Boris. Whatever, I'm just here for the LuLz
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So, your response is ignorant, racist stereotypes? Figures.
Look You anonymous Coward - exactly what race am I isting? You would be really really surprised to find out my ethnicity.
And it is ethnicity I'm spearing, not race. Don't you have a cultural appropriation protest to go to somewhere Angelique?
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>I was only pretending to be retarded!
Well hell, how is a retard like me supposed to know? 8^)
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The Demonrats should have won by 20-30 points. Instead, their party's candidate lost, utterly wiped out. Their ideas rejected. Their future bleak.
"Collusion delusion" is their only hope. Save that ephemeral lifeline, their only way out of this reality would be to run naked in public, screaming "REEEE" all the way to the nuthouse.
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There's tons of speculation about collusion. There has been no credible evidence produced so far.
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Mind showing it to us then? There are allegations of classified evidence and anonymous sources, but my anonymous & classified sources say that yours are complete lies. They conceived the Russia thing back during the primaries and we have the email to prove it. It was fake then as it is now.
There was the Crowstrike, Trend Micro, and ODNI reports, but none of them said anything of any value and there were serious gaps in their analysis that are inexplicable, like failing to recognize Tor exit nodes, fa
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even if no collusion (Score:1)
The real question, is why is good for Russian to have Trump as POTUS? Division !
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To answer you: because a pro-American guy in charge of America is actually good for Russia (and yes, America). Russia and America are natural allies, with zero conflicts. The globalists, on the other hand...
Look at what the globalist asshat Obama did: support for Muslim Bro-hood/ISIS, support for warmongering NATO (trying for bases at Russia's belly in Ukraine), support for China's militarism.
Who is this globalist shit good for?
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The real question, is why is good for Russian to have Trump as POTUS? Division !
With Trump in power, no US media outlet has time for reporting human rights abuses abroad. That could be the whole agenda.
Like Putin is saying: "Donald, CNN wants to run story about Russia torturing gays. We need morning poop tweet, comrade."
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you're funny, Hilary's record is one of cluelessness, illegal actions, lying. Certainly no better than Trump and likely worse.
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https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-... [fbi.gov]
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/837704382472933376
Public administration whereby she leaked like a sinking ship and was deeply compromised by other nations? You seem to be another person who missed that the Russia narrative was started by.... Russia. http://www.washingtontimes.com... [washingtontimes.com]
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Russia much?
Amazing how much you guys will go to obscure Putin's little bitch beef with Hilary. Contemptible.
Way to be a sexist jerk, Ben.
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Everyone knows that Hilary was by far the better candidate and has a brilliant record of public administrator
Hilarious. She was a terrible candidate, hated by much of her own party, and has a career full of lying, corruption, feckless management, carelessness with classified information (and more lying about that), endless throwing-under-the-buss of her friends, associates and staff, and lots of backing up of her husband's abusive sexual predation, even to taking advantage of her power and connections in the White House to dispatch people YOU pay with your tax dollars to smear the reputations of the women he abus
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benjfowler, i don't mind you having opinions, or being brain washed... but what's terribly sad is that you got 2 +5 posts here.
It either means there's a lot more sheep on slashdot than I previously thought, or you part of some pro-hillary organization that comments and then gives themselves + reviews through other accounts. I seriously hope it's the latter, because if it's the former... we all lost already.
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Everyone knows that Hilary was by far the better candidate and has a brilliant record of public administrator -- and that Putin destroyed her because he can't stand a successful and prosperous West. Like the evil, filthy, hateful little pervert he is, he hates beautiful things, and has to ruin and defile the West, because his evil black soul can't lift up Russia.
No. By choosing to portray a person as completely evil, rather than criticising their actions, policies opinions etc, you make your whole statement unbelievable. I am no fan of Putin, and he doesn't seem bashful when it comes to unsavoury methods, but considering that Russia is overrun by organised crime, rightwing extremists etc, perhaps he is less bad than many others would be. He certainly seems to be very popular, so it could be that a majority of Russians actually want his style of leadership. Also, I
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Seriously? (Score:1)
This nonsense about the Russians is still going on? Liberals really are retarded.
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Selective outrage (Score:3, Insightful)
The Ukraine and Saudis were rooting for Hillary to win. Mexico was certainly anti Trump and may have tried to sway the election away from him too.
Is Facebook going to share that information or conveniently not mention it.
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You mean where the Ukrainian government actively aided, interfered, and worked hand-in-hand with the DNC and Hillary Clinton? [politico.com] All of which is illegal.
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You mean where the Ukrainian government actively aided, interfered, and worked hand-in-hand with the DNC and Hillary Clinton? [politico.com] All of which is illegal.
Here a choice quote from that article:
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case.” There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.
What that article you quoted is basically saying is that the Trump campaign actively benefitted from a well oiled, well funded and professional campaign aimed at swaying the US presidential election in an operation that not only was run by the president of the Russian federation in person and was implemented by that countries intelligence services, but this operation was sophisticated enough and big enough that it has impressed US intelligence veterans. Those same US in
more Hillbot Swiftboating (Score:2)
You mean when David Brock spent a million dollars hiring internet trolls on Hillary's behalf? [latimes.com]
As with all Hillbot smears - racism, misogyny, collusion, election cheating - this one is pure projection.
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C'mon... we all learn as kids, "two wrongs don't make a right".
A second similar crime wouldn't cancel out the first. If you have any evidence election laws were violated by Hillary Clinton, she can be investigated TOO.
However, as she's not the POTUS, I expect that it would be a lower priority investigation.
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C'mon... we all learn as kids, "two wrongs don't make a right".
A second similar crime wouldn't cancel out the first. If you have any evidence election laws were violated by Hillary Clinton, she can be investigated TOO.
However, as she's not the POTUS, I expect that it would be a lower priority investigation.
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How cute....copying and pasting the same elementary school platitude. Except, as we all learned in elementary school, these platitudes are frequently complete horseshit.
Like right now. Hillary's collusion with the DNC to rig the primary was known loooong before the DNC or Podesta emails were leaked. Slashing 20 debates off the primary schedule, and putting up the few that were left next to football games to minimize the exposure that would be granted to the challenger. Loading up the start of the primar
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Because you're a moron.
I'd bother with a more detailed, logical discussion but you are obviously incapable of that due to your partisan blinders (at best) and outright stupidity (at worst).
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Yeah? Then show how you have more evidence than Chem Trailers, Birthers, antivaxxers, Hillary-killed-Vince-Foster bots, or the Obama's-parents-had-a-time-machine whackjobs.
Eh.
Vi.
Dence.
Else you have just as much shit in your brains than an Chem-Trailing-Antivaxxer-Birther. Reminder: accusations != evidence, otehrwise the Chem-Trailing-Antivaxxer-Birther's would be right, and reality-based people would be wrong.
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Sigh, you don't learn, do you?
Once more with feeling: If you have any evidence election laws were violated by Hillary Clinton, she can be investigated TOO.
Everything else is just deflection.
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Lulz. You are speaking to your bathroom mirror, yes?
FTFY. Can you name a single McCarthyite that has named an actual law that Trump actually violated? If you can stop moving the goalposts for five seconds, the subject is rigging an election. Which Hillary indisputably did, with the DNC. As opposed to Trump, who's supposed collusion with Putin's hackers rests on bullshit so batshit crazy even Alex Jones would be distancing himself from y
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Guarantee one thing: Australia (and other places with similar dialect) were not 'rooting' for Hillary. Perhaps a few, but they're super pervs.
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What do you expect? Hillary was a sunk cost.
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People have been saying this for years, accusations backed up by social media posts by Ukranian neo-Nazis. Not one picture from a U.S. drone, spy plane or satellite, though.
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No US law is going to stop me ridiculing US politics.
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You're doing a great job of showing why people should vote Trump 2020. Keep being unhinged, it's killing the left.
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Everyone has a first amendment right to anonymous speech, but I guess the first amendment isn't very popular lately. I'm also very curious as to how you think a country can be blocked off without people routing around it. You'd need a constitutional amendment to do any of that and even then it simply wouldn't work very well on a technical level, as we can see from looking at China over the past 20 years or so.
Don't you think it's just a little weird that you want to turn the USA into China because you're
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