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If Assange was a mere useful idiot in all this, would he not have taken the leaked info to the press - as happened with Snowden and every other leak - rather th
by drcongo 6y ago
If Assange was a mere useful idiot in all this, would he not have taken the leaked info to the press - as happened with Snowden and every other leak - rather than directly to the Trump campaign team?
- drcongo 6y agoWent down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to fact-check myself on this, and I'm still unclear. What does seem clear though is that the releases were timed to cause as much damage Trump's enemies as possible, which would still leave open the useful idiot theory, as well as the actively complicit one. I guess neither is a good look.
- ggm 6y agoI think for a certain kind of techno-anarchist-libertarian, "both sides are evil" leads to it being at worst morally neutral to help one fuck over the other. I suspect Assange fell into this hole: he hates either party, he decided to subvert a process because he could. Does he "back" Trump? no.