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Obama orders sanctions on Russia after campaign hacking during US election (theguardian.com)
24 points by franze on Dec 29, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


So its okay that Obama's administration messes with other countrys' elections but anyone else tries to mess with ours? It would be nice to have more details how Russia messed with our elections.


Any country is free to be mad that another country messed with their elections.

Has anyone stated otherwise?


Imagine if there would be overwhelming evidence that it wasn't Russia after all, it was an American named Bob. If that would be the case would you say that Bob has messed with the American election? or would you say that Bob has exposed corruption on one side? How about the trump locker room talk leak? Was that not messing with the election?

If this is all true though, than I personally would prefer Russia to come to my country and mess with my elections as well, the more corruption gets exposed the better.


What corruption? I think you were niave to think anything that happened wasn't just the regular Washington politics.


If you imply that the democrats had no dirty laundry, then the Russians couldn't have messed with the elections if they exposed it.

> you were niave

If calling me some adjective is your best argument then I guess there is no point in this discussion.


You could argue that they meddled with the U.S. electoral process but did their meddling affect the outcome of the election is a completely different argument(which I dont think is being discussed).




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