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No. The Podesta emails are damning but have got very little acknowledgment.

This is the phenomenon of circling the wagons.

I've been going through them and there's all kinds of fascinating stuff. For example if you do a search for 'ocra100' you'll see John Podesta receiving three emails that sound like he's getting intelligence reports from Moldbug. Too many WTFs to explain here. Just go and see.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1637

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/295

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/197

Well done to Glenn Greenwald though.

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Receiving emails isn't damning, you'd want to establish a pattern of mutual communication and reliance on the information contained in them.

(think about it this way, if my comment replying to you is really stupid, does that somehow impugn you?)

I think the orca100 emails are more interesting than damning, both the content and the context, I am very curious to know about how this happened since everything orca100 is saying is totally orthogonal to the mainstream liberal positions.

It's just amazing in general how overwhelmingly two-faced the system is. They say one thing to each other and then the opposite to the public.

If the Americans don't trust their politicians it's probably because they're not insane.

Look at the cc list on https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1637

It's a bunch of liberal reporters. Either it's a crank sending their crank to people they think need to hear their crank or a bunch of 30 something politics beat reporters are deep insiders.

I thought that too initially but now am starting to wonder. Some of the emails sound like they were written by cartoon villains and if orca100 is a crank, it's crank that sounds like they have been put up to this, cranks are normally on the defensive and expository but this just sounds like a report with the occasional personal opinion thrown in.

I suspect that political groups send out requests to see the perspective of different factions and this may be what this is.

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