• MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Wikileaks selectively leaked material helping Trump get elected giving us the mess we are in now. So I beg to differ.

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      10 months ago

      Well, that’s a bit of a misrepresentation; they published documents that hurt Hillary Clinton while declining to publish documents from the Russian government. But even if they had published both sets of documents, the effect on the election would have been the same. It’s not as though they declined to publish documents on Trump. Either way, if you’re opposed to Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails being leaked, I have to assume that you’re equally opposed to the Trump campaign’s emails being leaked, and you’re glad that these news outlets are not releasing the information.

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        10 months ago

        No, you made a pretty big assumption. I dont care that Hillarys emails were leaked and I would have liked Trumps emails to be leaked aswell.

        My biggest issue with wikileaks was that they exposed the names of people spying for the US in enemy countries which put their lives in danger. All while censoring the names of Russian operatives in the Russian leaks.

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          10 months ago

          OK, but that’s not what you said. You said that, “Wikileaks selectively leaked material helping Trump get elected giving us the mess we are in now.” So if you weren’t complaining about the Podesta emails, what were you referring to that helped Trump get elected?