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snot

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2. Honestly, I wouldn't care whether the figure on the pedestal were Repub or Dem;

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:34 PM

Jan 4

it's political satire, ffs!

The levels of censorship and self-censorship going on should frighten us all.

That said, I'd have more sympathy if more members of the MSM had defended Assange.

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If WaPo weren't losing so much money ($76 million spooky3 Jan 4 #1

Honestly, I wouldn't care whether the figure on the pedestal were Repub or Dem; snot Jan 4 #2

Defend Assange from what exactly? 🧐 Blue_Tires Jan 4 #4

Sorry, but snot Jan 5 #5

If the "prize winning journalist" you're referring to is Greenwald Blue_Tires Jan 6 #6

I include, e.g., snot Jan 7 #7

You just named a murderer's row of Putinist stooges Blue_Tires Jan 7 #8

Once again, snot Jan 7 #9

It's funny because ten years ago Blue_Tires Jan 8 #10

I was around DU in those old days; snot Jan 10 #13

Mother Jones on Greenwald, Taibbi muriel_volestrangler Jan 9 #11

I too oppose the US's meddling in Ukraine, snot Jan 10 #12

Wow. muriel_volestrangler Jan 10 #14

Of course I'm not happy about any deaths. snot Jan 10 #15

Yeah, Putin's "meddling" involves killing tens of thousands muriel_volestrangler Jan 10 #16

Your replies ignore my actual words, snot Jan 10 #17

Moral courage and its opposite LetMyPeopleVote Jan 4 #3