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Julian Assange's extradition to US approved by UK government

plagiarize

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Foffy said:
Julian Assange created a neoliberal culture in America where "business man" was seen as objectively superior to "government" now?

Remember, his extradition is entirely about exposing American coverups and war crimes in the middle east. This dude was seen as a hero exposing the double tap culture and how the US lied about killing journalists. Him coming here is giving the ghouls who called for him to be executed a decade ago justification and validation because their elusive goose has been grabbed.
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He didn't create the culture that made it a close election, but he helped tip that close election in Trump's favor.

He was 'seen as' a hero, but he never was. He did something good but clearly not out of any sense of altruism.

The extradition is wrong because of the precedent it sets, without question. UK journalism is in a dire place already, and this is only going to hurt it more. At least it won't hurt journalism in countries that aren't so desperate for a trade deal with the US as the Boris led UK are.
 
sbenji

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Did Ecuador kick him out of the embassy? If yes then it was obvious this would happen. The UK is not going to harbor someone the US wants extradited. It would still happen under a liberal government.
 
Beer Monkey

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He's as much a journalist as Elon Musk is a "free speech" advocate. Both just try to make autocracy happen.
 
CDX

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He's not some pillar of truth. He's a rapist, Russian asset, that selectively leaked certain things while simultaneously refusing to leak other things, with an intent to help Trump get elected. I wish his sexual assault victims could get justice, but they no longer can.

However it still sucks for the wider precedent that this could have on actual journalists.
 
Dyno

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I'm struggling hard to muster up any sympathy for this facist rapist.
 
Xando

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Not exactly a fan of this but not gonna shed a tear for someone that is effectively a front of russian intelligence.
 
Milfanito ~

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I can't believe that some people here are in favour of his extradition. Unbelievable.
He supposedly supports Trump!!!, he's with the Russians!!!, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Bottom line I don't like him so I'm fine with what's happening to him and I won't shed a tear. A serious attack on freedom of the press. Then we complain about the shitty world we live in.
 
Omegasquash

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And they got Al Capone for income tax evasion.

Doesn't feel 100% just, but I'll shed no tears over this. His intentions were never, ever good faith.
 
gozu

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Milfanito ~ said:
I can't believe that some people here are in favour of his extradition. Unbelievable.
He supposedly supports Trump!!!, he's with the Russians!!!, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Bottom line I don't like him so I'm fine with what's happening to him and I won't shed a tear. A serious attack on freedom of the press. Then we complain about the shitty world we live in.
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🙄

Boy that's a lot of etcs there. Considering each one of them was a vile and/or evil action, you still want us to shed a tear 😢?

This the great hill you want to die on?

Save your sympathy for the billions of people who deserve it more and save your sanctimonious accusations for when you're in a jury. We're here in forums and we will have this small deserved fucking Schadenfreude.
 
Clefargle

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Am I supposed to feel bad for anyone who tries to claim the moniker of journalist but does awful things to undermine democracy?
 
Kemal86

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way too many peoples worldview starts and ends at "america bad", which is why we get people defending a russian asset and their state sponsored "media outlet"
 
Claude Kenni

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Assange likely facing life in prison in a country he's not from or living in for publishing damaging albeit classified information doesn't seem like a win to me even if I don't like him and detest many of his actions.
 
danm999

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Kemal86 said:
way too many peoples worldview starts and ends at "america bad", which is why we get people defending a russian asset and their state sponsored "media outlet"
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Sorry but he and Manning uncovered legitimate war crimes committed by the United States. Nobody denies they happened and nobody in the United States ever faced any consequence over this (except Manning of course).

Prosecuting him for that is unfrankly unconscionable.
 
Volimar

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Hey remember when wikileaks dumped the SSNs, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses of DNC members and donors in their "Hillary Leaks" series? In a nice searchable format no less?

They're not journalists. Their version of the press is just leaking oppo research against one political party. They're the populist arm of propaganda for an egomaniac sexual assaulter. Their occasional "broken clock" leaks are just them doing the right thing for an anti-democrat agenda driven reason.

I'm a strong believer in whistleblower protections, but wikileaks doesn't deserve those protections, and for sure neither does Assange.


Kemal86 said:
way too many peoples worldview starts and ends at "america bad", which is why we get people defending a russian asset and their state sponsored "media outlet"
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Too many threads lately are happy to downplay the actions of some pretty bad parties as long as it makes the US look worse by comparison.
 
Tomohawk

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excelsiorlef said:
Is Wikileaks press? No
Is Assange a journalist? Only in as much as he trolls on Twitter and enables white supremacy like many of them do.

Is this good? No
Because this will actually harm legitimate journalism.

Fuck him, but he shouldn't be extradited.
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Pretty much this, this is bigger than Julian Assange.
 

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People neatly sidestepping heinous fact after heinous fact of Assange's existence to write people off as simply "not liking" this turd are doing some S tier gaslighting.

Really gross.
 
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mael

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Like Farewell before him, dude being a spy that air out dirty laundry doesn't make the country hidding the laundry clean or the spy a journalist somehow.
A spy trying to pass off as a journalist is extra gross and the press being so uncritical of this operation for so long is super duper extra gross as well.
So hungry for meat to show how bad the US is that it will accept anything by anyone.

Like when Farewell got got by the country he was exposing, shit ain't gonna look pretty when they're done with him.
 
poptire

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Mercury Fred said:
People neatly sidestepping heinous fact after heinous fact of Assange's existence to write people off as simply "not liking" this turd are doing some S tier gaslighting.

Really gross.
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Yeah, he's a terrible human being and whatever "good" he might've done has been eclipsed 10 fold by the rest of his actions.
 
Marcus Aurelius

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Another person the Left are just going to watch disappear into a black bag without a blink because they don't "like" them
 
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JABEE

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Not surprising. America was thinking up ways to assassinate him. UK can be leaned on extremely easy to do what we want.

Assange revealed too much about how the sausage is made in the state department, an intimidation racket drenched in blood.
 

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Won't someone please think of this poor staunch defender of authoritarianism.

Calling this asshole a journalist is really rich too. The takes here... lol
 
JABEE

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I don't know how people are arguing he wasn't extradited for political reasons. Assange isn't an American citizen. He's in the UK bring charged for publishing things on the internet that exposed US War Crimes, skullduggery, and diplomatic shakedowns. If the United States wasn't putting pressure on this, there would be no reason to do this.
 
Mr. Mug

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Mercury Fred said:
Won't someone please think of this poor staunch defender of authoritarianism.

Calling this asshole a journalist is really rich too. The takes here... lol
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He's an asshole and he and Wikileaks have gone really far off the the deep end but the things that got him in this mess in the first place were as far as I know still legit journalism?

It's pretty obvious that at some point Russia got to him/wikileaks or he just started believing in their bs on his own (wikileaks outright tweeted Russian propaganda about MH17 geez and I'm sure there's more examples) but that's not why he's being sent to the US.
 
hobblygobbly

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awful, fucking trash the U.S can extradite practically anyone they want from any where in the world

some dumb ass fucking posters in this thread can't see past their ass to know that this is a bad. i mean U.S even tried to assassinate him in another country

americans don't even hear about stories like how the CIA kidnapped a german man that was muslim and tortured and raped him in a CIA blacksite because they misidentified him for a terrorist they were looking for

gary browser also gets sued by nintendo and is canadian and gets extradited to the fucking U.S to have his life fucked over more
 
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Baron Eyepatch

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Seems to me that Assange living in hiding in an embassy for a decade is evidence that whatever precedent people are afraid of has already been set.
 
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