A group of lawmakers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called on President Biden to drop the extradition and prosecution of WikiLeaks founder …
Imagine falling for Assange’s bullshit so hard that you think he’s a free speech absolutely and not someone who leaked specific things for a specific purpose and that purpose was undermining democracy.
Oh, he’s a vindictive partisan hypocrite whose interest in “freedom of speech” is purely self-serving. But when it comes to precedents and principles, we don’t get to apply them selectively to people we like or dislike.
If I had that belief, I’d argue against the war machine then, rather than literally conspire to undermine a democracy by trying to sway public opinion in a dishonest way.
Because those two things seem completely unrelated and one of them is really bad.
Imagine falling for Assange’s bullshit so hard that you think he’s a free speech absolutely and not someone who leaked specific things for a specific purpose and that purpose was undermining democracy.
Oh, he’s a vindictive partisan hypocrite whose interest in “freedom of speech” is purely self-serving. But when it comes to precedents and principles, we don’t get to apply them selectively to people we like or dislike.
attacking the us war machine is noble. calling it an attack on democracy is dishonest
If I had that belief, I’d argue against the war machine then, rather than literally conspire to undermine a democracy by trying to sway public opinion in a dishonest way.
Because those two things seem completely unrelated and one of them is really bad.