https://twitter.com/J_ManPrime21

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39407088)

Non retard lefty guy here, btw. Not gonna suck greenwald’s shitstained cock tho, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39463972)

glenn greenwald is the smartest guy in media, sounds like you may be retarded here idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39463974)

I don't find Trump's stance toward Russia odd at all--he believed there were areas where the countries interests overlapped and thought it would be better to improve relations to cooperate on those issues. That's sound policy, but the "intelligence community" in all their wisdom saw this as a threat to their continuous war policy particularly in places like Syria and were determined to cut this off at the knees, largely successfully. Russia being an "authoritarian" state is also besides the point--the US has constantly had friendly relationships with authoritarian regimes when it suited their own interests. The problem with Trump was he picked the wrong country to warm up to. Lifetime civil servants saw this as an affront to their view of the world. This can be seen vividly in the testimony of Lt Col Vindman, who was so outraged that Trump was going against "our policy" in Ukraine. Newsflash asshole, the President sets the policy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39464017)

That said, just like Obama, who I generally dislike, of course there’s no reason to pick fights with Russia unnecessarily, and you even need to capitulate when they’re causing mischief and there’s no other good option (eg Ukraine).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39464021)

Russia is not a cartoon villain to be opposed at every possible stage regardless of cost or national interest (you seem to agree). But you still feel the need to refer to "greenwald Putin cocksucking", when all he has done is examine the facts objectively. I admire Greenwald greatly for recognizing Russiagate as a fraud and an incredibly harmful distraction to the public political discourse, even knowing he would be unjustly smeared as a "Putin cocksucker" for daring to question mainstream lib orthodoxy.

Bernie may not have been as brave as Greenwald in this whole affair, but I trust him to keep his eye on the class issues that he has focused on his entire political life, and to be skeptical of an intelligence community filled to the brim with neocons and whose record is not exactly sparkling. I'd still prefer Tulsi as the candidate, but Bernie is the next best thing. The other Dems are garbage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39464030)

Does all of that rise to the level of a criminal conspiracy? Apparently not, and that shouldn’t surprise anyone given that it would have been relatively easy to have the Trump campaign, even Manafort, remain removed from what GRU was doing and still enjoy the benefit of their work. Does it mean that the Russians changed the outcome of the election? That’s extremely unlikely, and if we’re looking for causes of the outcome of the 2016 election the top five reasons are all different ways that Hillary and her campaign were shitty and incompetent. You’re left with merely the knowledge after the fact that the Russians successfully executed some amount of cyber ops against the U.S. It would be unreasonable to overturn the election result on that basis. It’s still reasonable to point out that Trump and his campaign, regardless of what they knew and when, were happy to accept the help, and openly celebrated and cheered on attacks on the U.S. It’s also reasonable to point out that the fact that we’ve done nothing to try to strengthen out cyber defenses and prevent another attack is disturbing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4418681&forum_id=2#39464057)