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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by einpoklum on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:34PM (#22563187)
1. Please don't use the term "The Russians". That could mean any Russian national, or Russian corporation, or the Russian government. Conflating all of those is a mechanism for smearing all of "The Russians" for actions not by all of "The Russians".

2. Even if Russia had provided Wikileaks with the Democratic Party emails (which it probably didn't), that wouldn't matter, i.e. Wikileaks was still quite justified in publishing them.

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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by ci5er on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:43PM (#22563244)
1) Please don't read too much into that. I meant it as an umbrella term. When I say "it wasn't", I'm sort of un-smearing all of them, as an umbrella. I have no problem with Russians (I actually like them - fun people - except in winter). I have problems with American disinformation.

2) Agreed. That was not a point of contention.

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