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[–] purplepuppy@links.hackliberty.org 38 points 9 months 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 9 months 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.

[–] chauncey@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

lol this comment is a great example of a lib grasping for a weak explanation instead of criticizing Hillary Clinton.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hillary Clinton is a corporate shill, but you have to be fucking born yesterday to think wikileaks doesn't play realpolitik or perform political favors.

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