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Blue_Tires

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4. Defend Assange from what exactly? 🧐

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 10:06 PM

Jan 4

Being a Putinist stooge? Being an accomplice to Assad's murderous regime and helping him hunt down political dissenters? Playing a small but critical role in helping giftwrap the 2016 election to Donnie? Doxxing Sony employees? Keeping quiet when dozens of real whistleblowers have been imprisoned, assassinated or otherwise "disappeared" in Russia and Red China? Squelching the Panama Papers release because all the biggest revelations were people directly connected to his buddy Vlad? For Assange to be defended by the media, wouldn't he have to be an actual journalist first instead of an information broker and blackmailer?

I could go on but you get the point...

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The Borowitz Report - Democracy Dies in Bezos [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Jan 4 OP

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