Like the election interference. I keep imagining a small company of 50 employees punching in their time clock, grabbing coffee, then dedicating the rest of their day to ruining the elections of another country.
I think this train of thought might be headed towards what Hannah Arendt described as the "banality of evil"[1].
An average person with a mundane office job that happens to be for e.g. a certain government agency (to stay with the example), indirectly causing all kinds of mayhem elsewhere that is largely beyond their comprehension, simply because it's all neatly abstracted away from them.
At least on wallstreet, early on I noticed, sometimes people simply lose awareness (social interaction play's critical role) and end up doing illegal things, without knowing it, some end up in jail.
I think if person ends up in amoral/illegal group, eventually he will end up doing amoral/illegal/unethical things, there is no guard except to avoid such groups proactively.
There's a big company of over a million employees that has done this for decades, it's called the United States military and Intelligence Community. Iran, all of South America, etc.
I have a friend in Makedonya who wrote fake news articles im support of Donald Trump for two years. The best she could have made as a journalist was €350-€450 per month. This is a nation where the average salary is €250/month and senior software engineers make maybe €1000-€1500. MKD’s biggest export is people because of their economy.
Writing these articles she made €5000 per month. It was a life changing amount of money.
Now she owns a 4-plex downtown and another 2 airbnb units. She has lifted her family into the middle-class thanks to this. Her employer profited millions; and they did no worse than the usa does to many other countries on a daily basis.
Honestly, I have a hard time even resenting your friend. Maybe she was especially good at her job, but most of what I saw from that industry was laughably bad. You'd have to be a complete moron to be taken in by it.
That tens of millions were had more to do with the fact that we'd been doing it to ourselves for decades than with your friend's additions to it. Oh, certainly she made everything a tiny bit worse, but I don't have any anger to spare on top of the deep enmity I feel for the people who teed up the situation in which she worked.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if your friend (and her coworkers) did something less despicable for a living it would not have made much difference. People right here carefully cultivated that environment of hatred and gullibility that your friend helped exploit. They're the real problems -- and they're still doing it.
From afar I loved the Donald! Wrecking the wreckers!!
For the rest of the world he was a much better choice than HC. She would have been dropping bombs, and using murderous robots just as Obama did. Much rather the USA is rulled by a selfish clown than some one who cares to use the horrendous weapons the USA has so many of.
I can't blame other countries for cheering for the destruction of the United States from within, but keep in mind that power vacuums are quickly filled, and the next guy might be even worse.
Both sides? What do you mean 'both'? Presumably there are considerably more than two sides -- I'd expect that many countries are interfering in many other countries elections.
