Quote (Goomshill @ Oct 9 2019 05:02pm)
And its a valid argument over whether its good bias or wrongdoing was exposed.
Have you seen any conversation in the media whenever the Russian meddling is brought up over the two crucial points about 1) Its morally ambiguous who really bears responsibility when they exposed wrongdoing by Hillary and 2) Putin was responding tit-for-tat to similar provocation by Hillary in 2011? The only time I've seen it brought up was in a 2016 PBS documentary before the election. Since then it was all about muh collusion and mueller and obstruction and so on, because lets be real, no liberals ever actually gave a shit about Russia to begin with ('member the reset button?), they only cared about Trump and only concerned themselves with what tools could be used to damage Trump.
Because that brings us to 3) that the monsters due on maple street could never do as much damage as we do to ourselves
Russia used a few hackers to spearphish emails and publish them. So what? I'd argue that we have everyday occurrences that are far more serious, with lives lost or money on the line. Not information about scandals. There's good reason to minimize what Russia did- it has weakened us both internally and externally as Americans have spent 3 years fighting each other and demonizing Russia instead of fighting our actual geopolitical threat, China. The fact that 1 million people can be living in concentration camps- actual concentration camps, not comfy detention facilities- and the political discourse just turns a blind eye to it and focus on Russian boogeymen who released emails and Ukrainians who are investigating Hunter Biden.
I think it's pretty obvious that it is good that the bias was exposed. I don't think anyone really thinks the information was bad to know.
I think it's also clear that the information was released with intent, and that it had an impact on voting.