• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    An email recently released by the whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks shows how the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party bear direct responsibility for propelling the bigoted billionaire to the White House.

    In its self-described “pied piper” strategy, the Clinton campaign proposed intentionally cultivating extreme right-wing presidential candidates, hoping to turn them into the new “mainstream of the Republican Party” in order to try to increase Clinton’s chances of winning.

    Ah, the real reason people hate WikiLeaks. It exposed the truth, but rather than focus on the truth people focused on the messenger.

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      11 months ago

      My brother in OSRS, they had emails from the Republican Party as well, but didn’t release them because they said there was nothing interesting in them. I don’t disagree at all that Clinton’s strategy was inappropriate, but there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike WikiLeaks. Ironically, there’s a lack of transparency on them. They should’ve released the GOP emails.

      WikiLeaks has a problem when we need a WikiLeaks for WikiLeaks.

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        Republicans are retarded maniacs and Democrats are gaslighting hypocrites who play dumb when called out on their bullshit.

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      It exposed the truth, but rather than focus on the truth people focused on the messenger.

      In this case, the media also focused on the messenger and gave Hillary a pass on the actual contents of those e-mails.