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>..imaginary..

um, no

A hostile foreign power hacking a government related server containing potential sensitive data and then spewing that data such as to disrupt a US election is vastly more significant than putting that data on the server in the first place.

One casts light on a candidates decision making process, the other is pretty close to an act of war.

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Hacking elections is a declaration of war? Then the US should be at war with dozens of countless!

Oh, wait... It is!

While you statement is hyperbole and your logic is Tu Quoque, it's clear the US does some very bad things.

But you can be absolutely certain that anything that Putin is trying to do is absolutely guaranteed to vastly worsen that both inside and outside the country.

If you are going to be throwing out big words, it's not Tu Quoque, it's sarcastic.

The comment wasn't sarcastic at all. It was implying that the US hacks elections and that that is somehow a mitigating factor into how wrong it is for Russia to do it to us.

That's tu quoque. Not sarcasm.

>A hostile foreign power hacking a government related server containing potential sensitive data and then spewing that data such as to disrupt a US election is vastly more significant than putting that data on the server in the first place.

Not when that hostile foreign power hacks the Democrats in an election year. Then they're just doing the world a favor. Allegedly.

There's no indication that Russia is involved. It could just as easily - in fact more easily - be an internal whistle blower.

There are indications, just not ironclad evidence. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of aggressive propagandizing on both sides that makes the subject difficult to discuss objectively.

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