iceberg
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- May 15, 2017
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How do you know for a fact that what Russia did in 2014 and beyond was "more than usual"?You can weaponize skepticism to justify all sorts of things. I can easily say that based on all available evidence, this represents an escalation. Now you can speculate as to what exists that we have no evidence for, but that is an endless and futile effort in my mind.great.Sure, you could go back and tell me how many tornadoes were in 2018, but I can come back and say not every tornado is recorded so you don’t know definitively how many tornadoes actually occurred. You could just as easily say that 2019 was a decrease because we don’t know for sure the true number.great. i can look at the history of tornados in Oklahoma prior to 2018 and see how much more than "normal" 2019 was? i have data to back up my assumption 2019 did in fact see a rise in activity.
but then if not every action on the russians is ever reported, is this an escalation of their activity OR the reporting of it?
you simply can't honestly say there's a rise in activity for a given action unless you have a baseline for what it would normally be. so while i agree not all of it was reported, then that brings the reporting into question now.
but i don't want to rabbit hole off into the integrity of our media so let's table that for now if you don't mind.
so we seem to be at a point where:
it is claimed that we saw an increase of russian interference in 2014 and beyond.
i'm still trying to substantiate that claim by validating the history of their interference to go by. while i think you are dead on that it is very difficult to do (and i believe you at least get what i am after so thank you for that) as we don't know how much has been reported historically to gauge by.
given that, how can we honestly say then that we saw a rise in 2014 and beyond w/o a valid baseline comparison?
it's like saying we saw a rise in water levels but have no idea what they levels were to begin with.
But the statement has no meat unless we know what "usual" is.
Based on the evidence, to say MORE it oddly enough needs to be MORE.