Tag: angela merkel

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Now that Angela Merkel is running against a pro-Kremlin stooge, you’ll never guess which transparency crusaders dumped a whole bunch of hacked documents making her look bad. 

Does it matter why the documents were leaked or does it matter that the BND is doing shady Stasi level shit?

Dude, OP is using the same kind of lazy ad hominem or ergo decedo attacks that Clinton supporters used against WikiLeaks.

Let’s be crystal clear here, even if some Russian hacker got those documents under less than ethical means, that doesn’t mean that government officials should get away with wrongdoings just because the “other guy” did something wrong too.

Lol, I love it when people on the internet use the latin names of logical fallacies as magic spells to win the argument. Here’s a funny foreign word for you: realpolitik. Russia will advance its interests by any means necessary, and will steamroll over other countries’ sovereignty to do it. That includes yours.

Do you honestly think the right-wing politicians he’s allied with wouldn’t have extremely shady things in their emails or other correspondences that would turn people off? Don’t you think it’s a little odd that Wikileaks only ever attacks one side, and it’s always the side making Putin’s life more difficult?

And what was Merkel’s crime? She worked with the NSA. Newsflash: allies share intelligence. If there are terrorist cells in Germany, it’s in both our interests to track them. But putting this necessary semi-evil in the spotlight will dissuade the left part of her coalition, just like another powerful woman running for office whose name escapes me at the moment.