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> It didn’t matter that there was nothing bad coming from China or Russia or Nigeria. All that mattered back then is that he had dirt on the US. Because liber
by mr_overalls 5y ago
> It didn’t matter that there was nothing bad coming from China or Russia or Nigeria. All that mattered back then is that he had dirt on the US.
Because liberals hate America, right? This sort of thinking from conservatives baffles me. Improvement of any sort - personal, cultural, political - depends on acknowledging legitimate criticism. US citizens aren't required to be blindly loyal to their country. To state an obvious near-tautology, the only way to make things better is to encourage and facilitate useful criticism, so that bad things can be improved.
The relative lack of freedom to criticize is exactly why so many autocratic states become mired in corruption; there's no non-destructive mechanism for accountability and change in government.
- mc32 5y agoIt’s a legitimate concern and we can always improve, so it kind of baffles me that now the left find him antithetical when they used to laud him just because he doesn’t follow their narrative. Never the less, what he releases can always be used for improvement even by the left, but it seems they don’t want to hear it any more.
- mr_overalls 5y agoI think it depends on your definition of constructive criticism. Assange breaking news of US coverups of war-zone crimes is useful, imho. Assange serving as a mouthpiece of Russian disinformation is not.
- mc32 5y agoWhere has he released inauthentic (untruthful) information?
- mr_overalls 5y agoHe kept claiming that DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of the leaked DNC emailes (and not Russian military/GRU hackers) and that Rich had been killed as a result. He also released actual CIA hacking tools (Vault 7), which was a monumentally stupid, destructive act.