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I legitimately believe Pokemon Sun and Moon was used to influence the U.S. Election.

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llehuty

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Marcel

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semiconscious said:
from the 'when people opposed to trump actually come off nuttier than him' file? :) ...
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Trump winning the election has created a number of liberal conspiracy cranks who think the KGB is putting their hands in warm glasses of water at night time. There is no sense in pretending these people are mentally competent. The shock of the election simply broke them.
 
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eKongDiddy

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kiguel182 said:
Someone in the Luckey thread used the fact that Palmer liked Pokemon to argue he might be a decent guy.
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Haha, people should stop associating media and products with politics or how someone should act. That’s like saying since someone uses Google they’re a democrat.
 
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Fisty

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Marcel said:
I hope this is actually a joke thread so you people who see Russian agents in rose bushes and toilets look more fucking ridiculous than you already do for even giving this the time of day in your brain.
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Not saying it did happen, but we have actual Russian agents posing as black Americans on social media to stir up unrest. The news over the past few weeks should tell you that it's far worse than we ever imagined. And Pokemon Go was HUGE, I could see government officials trying to use that
 
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ggx2ac

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I'm bored, so I'll just take the bait.

Watch Da Birdie said:
Today, it's been discovered that Russian meddling extended to Pokemon Go among other social media platforms.
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Okay, according to the article. The don't shoot us website directed people to a Tumblr account that made a contest for people to play Pokémon Go to go to locations where police brutality occured. The prizes were Amazon gift cards but apparently there was no evidence of anyone entering.

I'll quote this from the article:

CNN has not found any evidence that any Pokémon Go users attempted to enter the contest, or whether any of the Amazon Gift Cards that were promised were ever awarded -- or, indeed, whether the people who designed the contest ever had any intention of awarding the prizes.

"It's clear from the images shared with us by CNN that our game assets were appropriated and misused in promotions by third parties without our permission," Niantic, the makers of Pokémon Go, said in a statement provided to CNN.

"It is important to note that Pokémon GO, as a platform, was not and cannot be used to share information between users in the app so our platform was in no way being used. This 'contest' required people to take screen shots from their phone and share over other social networks, not within our game. Niantic will consider our response as we learn more."
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Watch Da Birdie said:
But, my main point is that the release of Sun and Moon always irked me. Not the official release, that was the 18th of November, but the release a large amount of the Internet was waiting for was when the games would be leaked to the net and we'd be able to digest everything they had to offer. It happened with X&Y, and it was sure to happen to Sun and Moon...but when?

November 8th, 2016. The day of the election. Now I don't know if this was something that was planned longterm, but when it happened I found it rather funny. I went to the election booth myself and made sure to vote, but otherwise I was glued to my computer until I had to go to work as the information drifted out. I know we had quite a few people on GAF doing the same thing.
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You claim that a Pokémon leak was distracting you from being able to vote but apparently didn't prevent you from going to work...

Watch Da Birdie said:
That being said, with the idea that Russia loved to meddle with the election the secretiveness takes on a whole different level---was this one of Russia's many Social Media strategists doing this specifically on Election Day? As to why they would do it, well, a lot of young folks probably weren't eager to get out and vote in the first place, and those who might have would've likely skipped out on it if something better came along---say, learning about all the cool new stuff in Sun and Moon? Sure, /vp/ may be seen as Trump voters and thus working against that, but I imagine /vp/ was the best way to get it to spread around the more liberal areas of the net and the net benefit of distracting young Hillary voters probably outweighed those who would've voted Trump.
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You're using a lot of speculation without backing it up with evidence. Your CNN article doesn't even help with that.

Watch Da Birdie said:
So, that's my theory. Someone with ties to Russia, or sympathetic to Trump, obtained an early copy of Sun and Moon and leaked it to the Internet on Election Day to distract young liberals from going to the polls.
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Wrong conclusion. Someone leaked Pokémon Sun and Moon to... Leak the game.

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Symptoms:

- Connects the dots: Uses superficial claims to link events together.

- Fails to provide strong arguments with reputable evidence. Relies heavily on speculation.

- Is taking an actual event and turning it into something involving a greater organisation.

Conclusion:

Congratulations OP, you are a conspiracy theorist.
 
Surface of Me

Surface of Me

I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Marcel said:
Trump winning the election has created a number of liberal conspiracy cranks who think the KGB is putting their hands in warm glasses of water at night time. There is no sense in pretending these people are mentally competent. The shock of the election simply broke them.
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Youre being very unreasonable. People have pointed out recent news of Russia trying to influence the election by buying facebook ads and creating false flag twitter accounts. Yet you keep going on about "russians in bushes" and "kgb putting hands in water". Youre either very naive or just rather no one talk about this. If it's the latter, just leave the thread bro.
 
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NimbusD

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It's just sad enough that this isn't 100% laughable. I mean improbable. But lots of improbable things happened with this election.
 
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Marcel

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Surface of Me said:
Youre being very unreasonable. People have pointed out recent news of Russia trying to influence the election by buying facebook ads and creating false flag twitter accounts. Yet you keep going on about "russians in bushes" and "kgb putting hands in water". Youre either very naive or just rather no one talk about this. If it's the latter, just leave the thread bro.
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You're giving a likely joke post making fun of Russia alarmists like you credibility so the only naive person here is you.
 
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