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[–] purplepuppy@links.hackliberty.org 38 points 1 year ago (21 children)

This is how Trump won in the first place, wikileaks published emails of Hilary's campaign doing this. Instead of critisizing her for being responsible for Trump, democrats blamed Russia and attecked Wikileaks as Russian spies, literally called for shooting the messenger.

This is a prime example of why voting for lesser evil is not a tactic in politics and the whole liberal ideology as whole that we just need to vote for right people, instead of removing powerful positions in government in the first place.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (20 children)

The wikileaks thing is highly suspect, though. Like, wikileaks intentionally disclosed a lot of publicly damaging dirt on Clinton and the Dems at a very sensitive time in the election while not releasing ANYTHING on the GOP, even though they supposedly had that information.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There is nothing suspect about wikileaks, blueAnon just needs to learn to take responsibility for their actions

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing suspect besides them turning into Putin's laundromat. Oh, and then there was the not so subtle pushing of conspiracy theories exploiting Seth Rich's death. Real class act there.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nah, the real class act is the shit that we now know about what US does around the world and domestically thanks to wikileaks

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to love Wikileaks. They did genuine good throughout the years. That reputation was forever sullied in 2016 when Assange showed that he could be the puppet for one dictatorial regime (Putin) to promote a proto-fascist (Trump). Then the lies that he used as a coverup! Hardly befitting the head of a "radical transparency" organization. It was all so grotesque and petty. Trump might have just disappeared after 2016 if he hadn't been elected, but instead the world has to deal with the consequences of the MAGAts for the foreseeable future. It felt like Assange betrayed the underlying cause of Wikileaks in favor of petty revenge on Democrats.

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