Shalakushka

Holy shit you must be 13 if you think RvB is from the 90s.

No shit, they were discussing the possible geopolitical implications, not saying China is uniquely duplicitous. Please use your media literacy to not insert words into people’s mouths.

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Assange got e-mails for both Republican and Democratic parties from a Russian hacker associated with the Kremlin and then specifically chose to withhold the Republican e-mails and release the Democratic e-mails. If he meant anything he said about transparency, he would have released everything, but that’s not what he or his employers wanted. They wanted their puppet president in Trump, and Assange was happy to help like the Russian asset he is.

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if we punish rapists for rape, good luck finding any non rapist journalists!!!

Just fucking unhinged

No you see, it feels like the US supplied it and that’s good enough for them

Like 12 idiots on the Internet who then decided to never shut the fuck up about it.

Agreed. Capital, states, etc all have issues in the same way. I just think the state can work for the people and I’m not convinced of the alternative. Both libertarians and anarchosyndicalists have some wild basically religious ideas about how everyone will basically just work together and not dick each other over because of… Social norms, I guess? I just have a hard time believing it.

It is, a lot of people just have pseudo mystical beliefs about how people will act when there is no state. They like to imagine everything bad about humans is capitalism/the state/insert Boogeyman, not that the state and laws exist because we tried the alternative and no system at all always does work out to might makes right. A warlord always moves in to fill the power vacuum.

Some people are bastards and any system you create has to be created with the explicit assumptions that people are bastards. Some people just want to believe no one is a bastard or that there are not enough bastards to hurt the reasonable people. I think those people are wildly optimistic, and removing power structures does not remove the temptation to exert power or the ability, only one specific means.

Aren’t you the guy chomping at the bit for China to take Taiwan and Hong Kong over? Like a jingoist might?

This guy posts literally nothing but Assange spam.

Somewhere where people are more sympathetic to Russian assets

Why do freeze peach weirdos only seem to be worried about the freedom to throw slurs and spew antisemitic conspiracies?

He didn’t say it was the case for most of the world

It’s cheating and the fact that you are asking shows you know it is.

You can have a moral high ground either way. It would be impossible to live in such a way that you are totally free of hypocrisy and anything someone could possibly criticize you for, which is what these people are basically asking in bad faith. They are saying you would have to live an impossible life because they do not want a moral high ground to exist at all. Just because we do not always meet our ideals does not mean we cannot have ideals, or that we cannot note when those ideals have not been met in others. I have not lived a 100% violence free life, but that isn’t necessary to call out something like a murder.

Good to know if someone invaded your country that you would be a capitulator and collaborator in the name of an unjust peace.

Right, it would be bad if they put fuckin buzzsaws in the non crosswalk parts of roads to deter jaywalking. It would be monstrous. You however, see that and go, “those jaywalkers get what they DESERVE” because there is something broken in you that you’ve filled up with contrarianism and petulant nationalism.

Have you ever jaywalked? Should you have been put to death for it?