alt Hacker NewsNo they cannot. They don't offer real arguments, they make pre-textual arguments and they bullshit. (bullshit in the formal Harry G. Frankfurt sense of the word.) If an argument they make suits them, they will stand by that argument. If an argument ends up not suiting them, they will readily discard and fabricate a different justification.
So many years of dealing with this administration, and people are still attempting to point our hypocrisy and hold people to standards with regard to principle, past statements, character, etc. None of it will work here.
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It's a pretty easy argument. You have Biden's admin presiding over the largest cybersecurity failure in U.S. history resulting in China stealing data on millions of Americans including both campaigns [1] versus an isolated lone actor stealing much less data.
Allowing China god mode access to U.S. telecommunications infrastructure versus one guy with a USB stick.
Biden's senior FBI officials and National Security Advisers admitted they didn't even have the logs to determine when or how they were breached, and the hack was via law enforcement portals.
Breathtaking incompetence. The 2024 election was completely compromised due to this security lapse, as both campaigns were wiretapped.
[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/chinese-hackers-have-infil...
I agree. I'm not trying to point out the hypocrisy, it is obvious to anyone watching. I am more interested in testing the limits of how people will justify actions to themselves and others. It is fascinating to see the twisting happen in real time.