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I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don't wanna see him live another day, why is that?

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 140 points 1 year ago (30 children)

“We had several leaks sent to Wikileaks, including the Russian hack. It would have exposed Russian activities and shown WikiLeaks was not controlled by Russian security services,” the source who provided the messages wrote to FP. “Many Wikileaks staff and volunteers or their families suffered at the hands of Russian corruption and cruelty, we were sure Wikileaks would release it. Assange gave excuse after excuse.”

Because obvious Russian asset is obvious.

Here’s the full story

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[–] blahsay@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Because propaganda works.

  • The USA created some thoroughly disproven 'rape' charges (it was never a rape charge but that was the media reporting and most people don't read beyond headlines).

  • Classic painting of him as a traitor. We have 'evidence' you can't see that he works for [insert enemy here]

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some people confuse him for Edward Snowden (and vice versa). So he's got that going for him too.

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[–] pop@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you go against Russia/China/North Korea/Iran/India, they send a hitman to assassinate you. If you go against US and its allies, they assassinate your character first and you die in an accident in the prison with the camera footage missing.

And this is if you are actually somewhat popular, if not there are a tons of black sites they where they do Russia/China/North Korea/India shit and their populace will deflect how they are more humane like their life depends on it.

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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What serious person is calling for his death?

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's the reason we got Trump in 2016. He likes to pick and choose which facts to leak and which to keep concealed in order to further his own agenda. Not to mention he gets this information from foreign agents who stole it from our government.

Edward Snowden is far more deserving of recognition for his whistleblowing. He didn't do it to personally profit from it, just because he knew it was the right thing to do.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because Assange kicked the DNC's dog. The Republican's were going to hate him no matter what because rationality never figured into their "my country, right or wrong" stupidity, but apparently because he released the DNC's executive corruption and didn't pull something out of his ass regarding the oTheR SidE, he's obviously a russian asset.

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