NYT sues FCC, says it hid evidence of Russia meddling in net neutrality repeal

Imagine the EU was the federal government, and the backwater countries got a disproportionate say in who runs the federal government, and a minority of voters got to pick a stupider version of Marie Le Pen to run things.

Imagine that the only reason they won was because of 70,000 votes spread across 3 countries out of 139 million votes total, and that if any one of those countries had voted differently, they wouldn't have been elected. Also their opponent actually won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.

Now imagine that there was an active Russian influence campaign ongoing that was working to actively undermine the non-batshit crazy candidate after hacking their emails, and possibly even colluding with the candidate that won the election. With how small the margins were in those 3 states, and the fact that if any one of them had gone the other way the election result would have been different, it's hard not to think that had the election not been interfered with, we wouldn't be in the shitshow that we're in now.

So yeah, some of us are pretty pissed at Russia right now. And despite information from our intel agencies telling us that Russia is trying to do it again, our president isn't doing shit about it.

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