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whybroke | 9 years ago

The logical extension of your statement means the Russians should be invited to hack the DNC or any enemies of Trump forever because in your opinion leaks about debate questions and Pizzerias are so very, very critical to democracy. Perhaps denying the hacks every time they happens because, after all, they serve such a 'noble' purpose.

And I imagine I am not remotely the first one to realize this.

(Edit) My goodness but this is earning a lot of down votes. How very odd.

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dang|9 years ago

Please don't break the HN guidelines by going on about downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252882 and marked it off-topic.

PKop|9 years ago

I just think it's very childlike and immature to blame others for your own mistakes.

The Democrats were unhappy embarrassing information they hid from voters was leaked to voters. They have no one to blame but themselves. If they didn't do the things talked about in the emails, there would be nothing to leak. How many people even viewed the emails, anyways?

I think both: [0] the info in the emails was bad and [1] not that many people knew about it, or needed the Wikileaks info to not want to vote for Hillary Clinton.

I think she just lost.

whybroke|9 years ago

And I think a hostile nation affecting one's internal politics is an act of war, successful or not.

This didn't just damage Hillary, although the media you so deprecate made it into just that. The hack also serves to de-legitimatize Trump. It is also causing Trump to fight with and denounce all the intelligence agencies critical to US functioning. Beside refusing their intelligence, the demoralization affect alone is huge (who will risk their life for a president who calls them a liar?). It has also thrown the whole electoral process into doubt. etc.

And they hacked the RNC too. You can bet that will be used to to maximum damage at some point.

It is no doubt that most damaging and successful attack on the US in decades.

But even more shocking is that it is condoned because it furthers certain parties political ends. What happens if both political parties start using acts by hostile nations to help them win elections?