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Let’s ignore the facts, or the surmises and ask the following: who do you think he should be popular with? The republicans who think releasing the Manning files
by moomin 7y ago
Let’s ignore the facts, or the surmises and ask the following: who do you think he should be popular with? The republicans who think releasing the Manning files means he should be in prison? The Democrats after he did everything he could to sabotage them? The progressives for whom his associations with Putin and Farage are beyond the pale? The tech cognoscenti who were complaining he had ruined WikiLeaks by making it all about him even before the rape allegations came out? Women?
I mean, there are still people who are fans, but it’s no mystery why he’s unpopular with many groupings.
- onlydeadheroes 7y agoIt's shocking to me that in public discourse being caught cheating is now "sabotage".
- moomin 7y agoI’ll accept that my terminology may be overly general (and yours overly specific), but the fact remains: after Assange spent an entire election year dropping new damaging material on them, helping a candidate they profoundly oppose win power, how do you expect them to feel? As I say, I’m not getting into the rights or the wrongs of it, but Assange’s unpopularity is no mystery. Whether or not you think he’s a saint, it’s undeniable he’s annoyed not just a lot of powerful people, but an awful lot of plain people.
- onlydeadheroes 7y agoUnderlying your argument is the unspoken assumption that nobody on the left has any integrity or values the truth at all. But that is not true, and is in fact the great schism on the left right now.