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I think Vivek Ramaswamy is the only US potus candidate that said he'd pardon Assange.

mandmandam 3y ago
Marianne Williamson has been quite active on this front, speaking with Julian's family directly and asking Biden to drop the charges. Watching the smear machine rev up against her, the moment she got traction, has been quite the spectacle.
shwaj 3y ago
RFK also makes the promise on his website: https://www.kennedy24.com/pardon_julian_assange_robert_f_kennedy_jr?locale=en https://www.kennedy24.com/pardon_julian_assange_robert_f_ken...
- woodruffw 3y ago
  RFK died in 1968, and doesn't seem to have a personal website. The website in question is his son's, whose public service record is somewhat less established.
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - sparky_z 3y ago
    RFK Jr is RFK's son, not his nephew. You'd think the name would give it away...
    - woodruffw 3y ago
      For some reason I thought he was a nephew. Fixed; the substance of the comment is unchanged.
      - sparky_z 3y ago
        The substance of your comment was performatively pretending that someone else was too dumb to know the difference between RFK and RFK Jr, when obviously they do. Literally nobody has ever confused that anti-vax moron for his famous father who ran for president and died over 50 years ago. You were play-acting as a virtuous corrector of "misinformation" as cover to try and derail a conversation into an unrelated political flame war. If you must stoop to that sort of thing, the least you can do is bother to get your facts right.
EthanHeilman 3y ago
Unfortunately it seems to be a position shared by the loonies and no one else. I suspect Ramaswamy support for Assange comes more than from Assange having had a TV show on Russia Today than Ramaswamy's love of liberty as Ramaswamy is deeply opposed to individualism and liberty. I think Assange should be pardoned but it is a choice between Assange doing time and the continued US support for Ukraine, I'd choose Ukraine. It seems stupid that it has to be such a choice, but here we are.
- deadeye 3y ago
  "Ramaswamy is deeply opposed to individualism and liberty." Can you unpack that?
  - calgarymicro 3y ago
    I think his proposal to bar people under 25 from voting unless they pass a civics test is pretty bad.
    - epgui 3y ago
      I don’t know anything about the proposal or the person, but on its own, this seems like a prima facie great idea to me (in theory).
      - calgarymicro 3y ago
        Really? If we're going to arbitrarily require a competence test for all voters under 25, then I say we should also mandate a competence test for all voters over age 65 (he hasn't proposed that one for some reason). Ironically enough, Vivek himself might fail the test (that he wouldn't have to take given his age), seeing as he seems to think the Constitution was ratified before the end of the Revolutionary War.[0] Given that, I wouldn't trust him to write such a test, or to appoint people to write one. So who exactly would write the test? [0]https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/vivek-ramaswamy-republican-debate-civics-test-fail-rcna101625 https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/vivek-ramaswa...
one_level_deep2 3y ago
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senectus1 3y ago
that guy flip flops more than a fish out of water. I wouldn't trust him to follow through.

Marianne Williamson has been quite active on this front, speaking with Julian's family directly and asking Biden to drop the charges. Watching the smear machine rev up against her, the moment she got traction, has been quite the spectacle.

shwaj 3y ago

RFK also makes the promise on his website: https://www.kennedy24.com/pardon_julian_assange_robert_f_kennedy_jr?locale=en https://www.kennedy24.com/pardon_julian_assange_robert_f_ken...

woodruffw 3y ago
RFK died in 1968, and doesn't seem to have a personal website. The website in question is his son's, whose public service record is somewhat less established.
- deleted 3y ago
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- sparky_z 3y ago
  RFK Jr is RFK's son, not his nephew. You'd think the name would give it away...
  - woodruffw 3y ago
    For some reason I thought he was a nephew. Fixed; the substance of the comment is unchanged.
    - sparky_z 3y ago
      The substance of your comment was performatively pretending that someone else was too dumb to know the difference between RFK and RFK Jr, when obviously they do. Literally nobody has ever confused that anti-vax moron for his famous father who ran for president and died over 50 years ago. You were play-acting as a virtuous corrector of "misinformation" as cover to try and derail a conversation into an unrelated political flame war. If you must stoop to that sort of thing, the least you can do is bother to get your facts right.

EthanHeilman 3y ago

Unfortunately it seems to be a position shared by the loonies and no one else. I suspect Ramaswamy support for Assange comes more than from Assange having had a TV show on Russia Today than Ramaswamy's love of liberty as Ramaswamy is deeply opposed to individualism and liberty. I think Assange should be pardoned but it is a choice between Assange doing time and the continued US support for Ukraine, I'd choose Ukraine. It seems stupid that it has to be such a choice, but here we are.

deadeye 3y ago
"Ramaswamy is deeply opposed to individualism and liberty." Can you unpack that?
- calgarymicro 3y ago
  I think his proposal to bar people under 25 from voting unless they pass a civics test is pretty bad.
  - epgui 3y ago
    I don’t know anything about the proposal or the person, but on its own, this seems like a prima facie great idea to me (in theory).
    - calgarymicro 3y ago
      Really? If we're going to arbitrarily require a competence test for all voters under 25, then I say we should also mandate a competence test for all voters over age 65 (he hasn't proposed that one for some reason). Ironically enough, Vivek himself might fail the test (that he wouldn't have to take given his age), seeing as he seems to think the Constitution was ratified before the end of the Revolutionary War.[0] Given that, I wouldn't trust him to write such a test, or to appoint people to write one. So who exactly would write the test? [0]https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/vivek-ramaswamy-republican-debate-civics-test-fail-rcna101625 https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/vivek-ramaswa...

one_level_deep2 3y ago

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senectus1 3y ago

that guy flip flops more than a fish out of water. I wouldn't trust him to follow through.