• CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    9 days ago

    Please don’t do this. This is a right-wing tactic: “I’m not making any claims, I’m just asking questions.”

    It’s literally not. The article makes it clear there are facts many people are not aware of, and they need to know these to then be able to make an informed decision. I have defended Assange and his character at several points in the article. And frankly I don’t really care what tactics the right wing decides to use, it’s not gonna prevent me from living my life.

    “Collateral murder” absolutely was damaging to the US government. It showed the callous disregard the US military had for (non-white) human life and it put them under a lot of scrutiny. It also helped a lot of “fence-sitters” take a side opposing the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    So nothing happened.

    Because that’s US policy. Not prosecuting them was also a bad look for US govt.

    So nothing happened.

    What? This claim needs arguments.

    This is proven in the article by Wikileaks’ own webpage from 2006 which is linked earlier in the article… sorry but did you actually read through it?

    “A golden prison.” lmao

    We agree with each other though?

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      9 days ago

      So nothing happened.

      Yeah, no shit. What did you expect? The US to go “oh sorry, we’ll stop existing now”? The US empire won’t crumble after one embarrassing video. You can’t make the claim Assange/Wikileaks is a US asset just because their leaks didn’t lead to the collapse of the US or significant change.