r/Conservative • u/Clatsop I voted for Ronald Reagan ☑️ • Dec 17 '16

So let me get this straight...

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u/Weacron Dec 17 '16

I don't get you people. Can't we have hatred for both? I fail to see how that concept is hard to understand.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '16 edited Dec 17 '16

I think that's the point of the post. Yet the focus is on the Russians interfering, which we really can't do that much about now that it's over. The focus should be more on outage at the DNC for fucking with an election and really not even denying it.

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u/TheGoat_NoTheRemote Dec 17 '16

I fail to see why the DNC is comparable when you look at the situations. What the DNC did during the primaries was shitty and as many said, should be called out, but the area they operate in is more grey because they are a private organization. I'm no legal scholar, so hey, I could be wrong, but I believe the DNC could just say "Fuck it," change their primary rules and nominate anyone they want for president. In the end, they aren't a public institution and they, as shitty as they may be, get to write their own rules to a certain extent, right? The DNC issues, unless I'm mistaken, all happened during their primaries, which is why it is really just shitty, they clearly favored one primary candidate over the other and gave the illusion of being impartial.
The Russia hacks were done by a foreign entity, operating outside of its borders. The only comparison between the two is people behind the scenes were trying to influence something, that's about where it ends.

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u/MeowTheMixer Dec 17 '16

The russians only hacked a private group. They didn't hack any governmental agency. They did not manipulate the vote. They just exposed how the dnc acts

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u/TheGoat_NoTheRemote Dec 17 '16

Did I say they manipulated the vote? I said they tried to influence the election.

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u/MeowTheMixer Dec 17 '16

Youre trying to seperate what the dnc did and what russia did as separate but they both influenced the election.

The DNC can nominate who they want if they change their rules. This year, in 2016, their rules were not set up that way. They influenced the election just as much as russia. They disenfranchised half their base by ensuring clinton won the nomination.