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> It seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot with this AMA. Honestly they are doing this quite effectively for a while now. I'm in support of thei
by nisa 10y ago
> It seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot with this AMA.
Honestly they are doing this quite effectively for a while now. I'm in support of their cause and I think they got a lot of unwarranted hate against them and they likely don't cooperate with Russia and the leaks are legit (this was also proven due to DKIM signatures), but:
Whoever is in charge is their Twitter account is an idiot. They pandered clearly to the Trump/Alt-Right crowd in a lot of tweets that were clearly partisan. They retweeted Alt-Right accounts and rode happily on the hate train. Some tweets were either stupid or deliberate unclear like that Tweet citing Clinton talked to Jews - likely someone just shortened the name of that Jewish Charity Organisation to which the talk in question was given but the impact and harm was done.
They should know how this works and they could have kept a lot more distanced and calm in their communications. That they didn't manage to do that is a valid reason for some of the hate and criticism they got.
The media just looked at their Twitter and saw partisan cheering and often unclear statements.
I support their cause, but they really harmed - or better: destroyed their public reputation in this election.