Why Russia targets Black voters in US elections
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If we're only so-called 13% of the population and half of us don't vote....
Someone help me understand
Someone help me understand
Elections are won with relatively small margins. If we are off by a few then republicans can run the map.If we're only so-called 13% of the population and half of us don't vote....
Someone help me understand
It's where you are located that matters. Certain areas can be decided by black voters or lack of.If we're only so-called 13% of the population and half of us don't vote....
Someone help me understand
Them crackas can and have took what they want from us,but right now they can’t take voting so it breaks my heart we have so many black people buy into this don’t vote bullshyt. If you consider yourself a halfway intelligent person and you put bullshyt like this into the universe, go look in a mirror and do some soul searching, you fukking up
End the world, brehs
We suppose to sit back while they antagonize and manipulate us? enough is enough
Apparently shyt like this is the easiest thing to do, look at this story:
Netflix's ‘The Great Hack’ highlights Cambridge Analytica's role in Trinidad & Tobago elections
The political party that allegedly hired the company denies it
Written by Jada Steuart | Posted 5 August 2019 23:32 GMT
Screenshot taken from YouTube video, showing an excerpt from “The Great Hack,” a documentary related to Cambridge Analytica's alleged work during Trinidad and Tobago's 2010 general elections.
Netflix's new documentary “The Great Hack” — which takes a deep dive into how Cambridge Analytica and its former parent company, the SCL Group, were able to manipulate elections all over the world — has renewed an online discussion about corruption and voter manipulation in Trinidad and Tobago.
Cambridge Analytica is best known for using the data of millions of people without their consent for strategic marketing purposes in political campaigns like Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and Brexit's Leave Campaign. But the company also helped influence voting behaviour in Global South countries, Trinidad and Tobago being the most notable example highlighted in the documentary.
In the film, Cambridge Analytica says it worked for “the Indians” — meaning they worked on behalf of the majority-Indian United National Congress (UNC) party — and, by extension, the group of smaller affiliate parties that teamed up to defeat the incumbent People's National Movement (PNM), which primarily attracts Afro-Trinbagonian voters.
The audio from a Cambridge Analytica sales presentation illustrates how the company sought to influence young, black voters through a campaign titled “Do So”. At the time, most citizens thought the campaign was simply inspired by the actions of Percy Villafana, an elderly pensioner who defiantly crossed his arms in denial of access to his property when the then-prime minister and PNM leader, Patrick Manning, was canvassing voters in Villafana's neighbourhood pre-elections. But revelations about how Cambridge Analytica operated have since cast the seemingly grass roots movement in a far more sinister light.
A Cambridge Analytica spokesperson in the film said the campaign attempted to “increase apathy” among young, black voters so that this demographic would interpret the refusal to vote as “a sign of resistance against […] politics” and not show up at the polls.
The UNC went on to win the 2010 election:
After the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, the UNC has routinely denied knowledge of the company's existence and of having any relationship with them. UNC party leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, passed the buck, but the Congress of the People, one of several political parties that comprised the UNC-led coalition government back in 2010, later admitted that there had been “discussions and some engagement [with] SCL”.
Since the documentary's release on Netflix on July 24, 2019, both the general public and members of the government have responded, including Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, who revealed that his office has been in discussions with attorneys for Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie. The Trinidad and Tobago government wants Wylie to testify in front of a Joint Select Committee to shed light on the issue of micro-targeting in the country and provide evidence regarding which UNC members played a part in sanctioning the political strategy employed by Cambridge Analytica.
Many people who watched the documentary, both locally and internationally, expressed their shock that the company was able to manipulate the 2010 election by making people “not vote”:
Others seemed unfazed that Trinidad and Tobago's name got called:
Despite the massive amount of press that the Cambridge Analytica scandal received globally, the issue of how the company helped manipulate the electoral process in developing nations has been underreported, even though the majority of the company's elections-based clients are from the Global South.
The fact that many of these countries — including Trinidad and Tobago — do not have up to date cybersecurity laws has made it easier for companies like Cambridge Analytica to fly under the radar and work the system:
The hope is that if and when Wylie comes to Trinidad and Tobago, he will not only provide evidence of a relationship between some of the UNC's top officials and Cambridge Analytica, but also enlighten the country's policymakers on the effects of micro-targeting on the internet. Wylie's potential visit is still under discussion between his attorneys and the Office of the Attorney General.
Netflix’s ‘The Great Hack’ highlights Cambridge Analytica’s role in Trinidad & Tobago elections
Netflix's ‘The Great Hack’ highlights Cambridge Analytica's role in Trinidad & Tobago elections
The political party that allegedly hired the company denies it
Written by Jada Steuart | Posted 5 August 2019 23:32 GMT
Screenshot taken from YouTube video, showing an excerpt from “The Great Hack,” a documentary related to Cambridge Analytica's alleged work during Trinidad and Tobago's 2010 general elections.
Netflix's new documentary “The Great Hack” — which takes a deep dive into how Cambridge Analytica and its former parent company, the SCL Group, were able to manipulate elections all over the world — has renewed an online discussion about corruption and voter manipulation in Trinidad and Tobago.
Cambridge Analytica is best known for using the data of millions of people without their consent for strategic marketing purposes in political campaigns like Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and Brexit's Leave Campaign. But the company also helped influence voting behaviour in Global South countries, Trinidad and Tobago being the most notable example highlighted in the documentary.
In the film, Cambridge Analytica says it worked for “the Indians” — meaning they worked on behalf of the majority-Indian United National Congress (UNC) party — and, by extension, the group of smaller affiliate parties that teamed up to defeat the incumbent People's National Movement (PNM), which primarily attracts Afro-Trinbagonian voters.
The audio from a Cambridge Analytica sales presentation illustrates how the company sought to influence young, black voters through a campaign titled “Do So”. At the time, most citizens thought the campaign was simply inspired by the actions of Percy Villafana, an elderly pensioner who defiantly crossed his arms in denial of access to his property when the then-prime minister and PNM leader, Patrick Manning, was canvassing voters in Villafana's neighbourhood pre-elections. But revelations about how Cambridge Analytica operated have since cast the seemingly grass roots movement in a far more sinister light.
A Cambridge Analytica spokesperson in the film said the campaign attempted to “increase apathy” among young, black voters so that this demographic would interpret the refusal to vote as “a sign of resistance against […] politics” and not show up at the polls.
The UNC went on to win the 2010 election:
After the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, the UNC has routinely denied knowledge of the company's existence and of having any relationship with them. UNC party leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, passed the buck, but the Congress of the People, one of several political parties that comprised the UNC-led coalition government back in 2010, later admitted that there had been “discussions and some engagement [with] SCL”.
Since the documentary's release on Netflix on July 24, 2019, both the general public and members of the government have responded, including Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, who revealed that his office has been in discussions with attorneys for Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie. The Trinidad and Tobago government wants Wylie to testify in front of a Joint Select Committee to shed light on the issue of micro-targeting in the country and provide evidence regarding which UNC members played a part in sanctioning the political strategy employed by Cambridge Analytica.
Many people who watched the documentary, both locally and internationally, expressed their shock that the company was able to manipulate the 2010 election by making people “not vote”:
Others seemed unfazed that Trinidad and Tobago's name got called:
Despite the massive amount of press that the Cambridge Analytica scandal received globally, the issue of how the company helped manipulate the electoral process in developing nations has been underreported, even though the majority of the company's elections-based clients are from the Global South.
The fact that many of these countries — including Trinidad and Tobago — do not have up to date cybersecurity laws has made it easier for companies like Cambridge Analytica to fly under the radar and work the system:
The hope is that if and when Wylie comes to Trinidad and Tobago, he will not only provide evidence of a relationship between some of the UNC's top officials and Cambridge Analytica, but also enlighten the country's policymakers on the effects of micro-targeting on the internet. Wylie's potential visit is still under discussion between his attorneys and the Office of the Attorney General.
Netflix’s ‘The Great Hack’ highlights Cambridge Analytica’s role in Trinidad & Tobago elections
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
We suppose to sit back while they antagonize and manipulate us? enough is enough
Obama was sanctioning them and we still here
Sanctioning is different from direct military action.
Have some covert shyt against them but direct military action?!
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
Sanctioning is different from direct military action.
hsve some covert shyt against them but direct military action?!
Aight. I'll give you that
russians been thinkin we soft ever since drago killed creed in front of james brown
It's very very tough to do that and succeed. Remember, the only successful campaign against Russia in known history was the Mongol attacks of 1222 and 1237. And they only succeeded because that's the best military the world has ever seen and in all likelihood will ever see. Not to mention 'Russia' of that era was a lot smaller in terms of territory and was comprised of loosely-allied independent states that often bickered with each other.
The problem with attacking Russia is the sheer size of it, and the fact that the vast majority of the country is inaccessible by sea; the only way to advance is by land. They have a geographic advantage like few other countries in the world, that makes fighting a defensive war particularly easy. They can just retreat and give up ground forever, until your supply lines are stretched too far (remember you can't reinforce and supply from the sea, everything has to be by land including your air force, which needs land-based airields and fuel stops to function). Then they turn around and pick you off when you're strung out and overstretched, spread too thin across that vast land. This is how they beat back Napoleon and Hitler. Hell, it's how the Mongols smashed the Russians themselves in 1223 at the battle of the Kalka River, by using those exact same tactics.
The other geographic problem for an invasion of Russia is directly related to why they are so strong in a defensive situation like I said above. The perfect counter to the Fabian strategy of retreating is to come at them from multiple angles. Then they're not retreating, they're being corralled and herded like cattle into the pen for slaughter. But you can't open up multiple angles of attack again because there's so little sea access. For the US, the only viable direction is to attack from the west through Europe, just like Hitler and Napoleon. Ideally you want to come at them from the west, from the south through the Caucasus, and from the east across Siberia. If you can manage to do that Russia is actually really easy to conquer. But it's not possible for one country alone to be able to do it. You need China, Korea, and Japan on your team to come from the west, you need whoever's willing in Central Asia to come from the south. So it's got to be a coalition of allies working together. And that's the hard part, getting a whole bunch of countries to agree to work together for a common goal.
sanction them and do mirror attacks, give as good as we take.
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