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Assange is a Russian cocksucker who considerably assisted Trump's narrow success in 2016. Fuck him.
That’s all true, but his original arrest and prosecution was still a politically-motivated attack on freedom of speech.
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.
What are you taking about?
He was involved in obtaining docs from both the RNC and DNC, but for some reason only the DNC was leaked.
Hmmmm, I wonder why
Also accused the Panama Papers of being a US hoax to discredit Great Leader Putin, and has refused to release major Russian leaks since 2010.
2010? Why would he risk his live again? No western country gave him any safety. What do you expect?
The Mueller Report says that (1) Assange admitted he was covertly working to get a Republican elected as president and (2) getting a substantial amount of (sometimes doctored) information from the Kremlin.
Read the indictment, it’s all in there.
Remember: Two top level Russian hacking groups were in American DNC systems going all the way back to 2015.
The two hacking groups also were in the American RNC networks since possibly before that time.
One large group of information (DNC) was fully leaked through multiple channels.
The other large group of information (RNC) was held back, kept secret, and was used/being used for other Kompromat and influence purposes.