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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I misread the title and thought it said "found in ditch"

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whatever you think of Assange, you should know why the US government wants to prosecute him. He published this among other things:

Context: that's a US gunship firing on Reuters journalists among other civilians including kids.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn’t it bonkers that they want to put him in jail for publishing a thing that is today hosted freely on YouTube?

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if I told you that's not why at all.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I know, it’s about the conspiracy charge, it was a poorly worded musing.

[–] spez_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Australian government voted on a motion to bring him home. He is a journalist who did nothing wrong.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He is a journalist who did nothing wrong.

You mean besides the rape where he hid in Ecuador until the statute of limitations ran out?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Every political opponent of America is a rapist and their hard drive is filled with child porn when they get arrested

There's a pattern here...

It must be the pedophilia that makes them expose America

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Espionage is something wrong. Hiding behind a Russian website to make your posts that threaten us national security?

That definitely a paddlin'. Widdew ol juwian did nuffink eh?