• davel [he/him]
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    397 months ago

    While the Trump administration dropped plans for Assange’s extrajudicial murder, neither it nor the Biden administration has turned away from killing him slowly in solitary confinement in Britain and, if the British appeals court agrees to his extradition, in an American super-maximum-security prison for the rest of his life.

    Let’s not forget Obama, who initiated Assange’s slow, grinding political assassination.

  • Goku
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    117 months ago

    Prosecuting Assange is a blow against freedom of press.

    • livus
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      147 months ago

      It scares me how many comments I see on this subject are something to the effect of “people don’t deserve human rights unless I am able to empathize/agree with them.”

      • andyburke
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        -37 months ago

        Everyone deserves human rights and you are being disingenuous to suggest that the OC was saying otherwise.

        They said they didn’t feel very empathetic toward Assange because he didn’t follow the journalistic practices he claimed he was.

        Nowhree did the OC say anything bad should happen to Assange, nowhere did they suggest anything that wasn’t legal, they didn’t really say they had any hopes about the outcome for him.

        You are the one who tried to make this argument about human rights instead of about Julian Assange.

        Weird how this happens in every thread about the guy. Almost like there are paid posters watching out for this stuff.

        • livus
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          27 months ago

          Whew what a rollercoaster.

          Me, reading your comment: Hmm, this comment by @andyburke is right, I was too hotheaded, I should apologize to the original poster…

          tried to make this argument about human rights

          Me: … it is about human rights tho…but maybe I jumped the gun a bit…

          Weird how this happens in every thread about the guy. Almost like there are paid posters watching out for this stuff.

          Me: … record scratch followed by laughter. I’d love a job where I was paid to post the stuff I post, though.

          Do you seriously think this corner of the fediverse is filled with people paid to change your opinion? These sites are in their infancy, way too small, the only shills around here are for fake Adderall. It’s one of the things I like about it.

          My advice to the paranoid is get yourself a kbin account so you can literally see who upvotes what. That will end your paranoia about cabals.

    • @Bonskreeskreeskree
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      77 months ago

      Hilary lost cause she was a God awful candidate the establishment tried to force feed us. Had they gone with someone more viable, with less baggage, they would have won, irrespective of Russian interference

      • @derf82
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        57 months ago

        Hilary was less god-awful than Trump, and the leaks absolutely damaged her campaign. You sound like you are ok with Putin interfering with our elections.

        • @Bonskreeskreeskree
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          57 months ago

          Settling for less God awful sums up what brought America to this point perfectly

    • Maeve
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      27 months ago

      He’s a human being and all candidates work for the same bosses, which aren’t the people.

    • @workerONE
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      07 months ago

      Very surprised a moderator removed this

    • @derf82
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      -17 months ago

      Also, I don’t really feel empathetic towards Assange, he acted as a Russian mouthpiece with his show on RT and his interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

      I wish more people would see this. He isn’t some freedom fighter. He happily became Putin’s useful idiot and published the selective leaks Russia provided to swing the 2016 election to Trump. I find it hilarious that after that, Trump wanted to kill him.