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2016 Postmortem

Exilednight

(9,359 posts) Wed Dec 7, 2016, 12:50 PM Dec 2016

As Far As Russia Goes [View all]

What Russia did was not unique. They hacked the DNC and leaked some emails that were quite embarrassing to the party. One even cost DWS her job as DNC Chair.

To think we would not do the same is ignorance at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst.

With that being said, we as a country have interfered in foreign elections. We've actually gone as far as rigging them, or overthrowing governments and installing dictators that agree with us.

Our hands are not clean.

The DNC should have expected that their servers would attempt to be hacked. They didn't take that threat seriously. We payed the price.

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As Far As Russia Goes [View all] Exilednight Dec 2016 OP

Seriously? DURHAM D Dec 2016 #1

Yes I have. And the DNC and I now work at CGI on Exilednight Dec 2016 #2

fact that the US does not have clean hands does not make it right-- it was still illegal activity Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #3

There's a lot of hypocrisy in that statement. Exilednight Dec 2016 #4

I'm saying it's wrong no matter who does it, how is that hard to square? Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #5

The Democratic Party isn't against it, per se'. Democratic Exilednight Dec 2016 #6

Got a link to that? kentuck Dec 2016 #7

I guess you don't remember Haiti. Exilednight Dec 2016 #8

fair enough... so if you are connected to the DNC, how much of them do you think is corrupt? Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #9

Who said anything about corruption? Exilednight Dec 2016 #11

lots of people... though personally I never thought they were Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #14

Look at how much of government Republicans control vs our party. Exilednight Dec 2016 #16

so what is more accurate? Super incompetent? Extreme sellouts? Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #19

it's a cbination of things. I, and I speak for myself here, do not Exilednight Dec 2016 #20

What if it's revealed that Russia interfered in the Democratic primary BainsBane Dec 2016 #10

The only way Russia could "throw" a US election to one person or another is to actually hack voter Exilednight Dec 2016 #12

"never happened"? Do you mean Russian involvement or hacking more generally? Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #15

I mean exactly what I said. Voter machines were not hacked. Exilednight Dec 2016 #18

To think we would not do the same is ignorance at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst. La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #13

Yes, Exilednight Dec 2016 #17

Sure our hands are not clean, but we also have a history of fighting back against foreign intrusion LeftInTX Dec 2016 #21

It's not going to change anything. Exilednight Dec 2016 #22