WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces what could be his final court hearing in England over whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges.

“Julian has been indicted for receiving, possessing and communicating information to the public of evidence of war crimes committed by the U.S. government,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “Reporting a crime is never a crime.”

  • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1622·
    6 months ago

    Assange doesn’t care about victims of US imperialism. It’s all grandstanding and attempts to manipulate useful idiot types. He didn’t even bother to remove PII of people under risk during his “disclosures”.

    US does a lot of bad things, but they are not fundamentally evil.

    Everything done by the Russians has always been about killing, torture and genocide.

    Show me one example of russians doing something positive. Even WW2 that they fetishize, they originally collaborated with the Nazis to split up Europe.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      245·
      6 months ago

      As an American I will say that we are a fundamentally evil country. Our people are mostly not evil, but our governmental system does immeasurable evil to people in this country and across the world.

      • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        929·
        6 months ago

        You don’t know what you are talking about.

        How many languages do you speak? Which countries have you lived in and for how long?

        Can you name 5 bullet points about russian history in the 20th century?

        Provide one example of Russia’s positive contribution in the global sphere. Three example w.r.t. USA are Japan, Germany and South Korea.

        • mecfs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          232·
          6 months ago

          American government being fundamentally evil doesn’t mean Russian government isn’t even more* fundamentally evil (which it is)

          • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            822·
            6 months ago

            No, the US gov is not fundamentally evil.

            They definitely do bad things, but not every single action of the US is bad.

            Every action (every single one) done by the russians is evil.

            • mecfs@lemmy.worldEnglish
              141·
              6 months ago

              That is an overly simplistic view. Russian government has done good things, It funds healthcare for it’s citizens.

              Now don’t get me wrong Russian government is fundamentally evil. But governments are much too complex to only do good or evil things. Every single government has done both many good and evil things.

              • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                411·
                6 months ago

                I was referring to broader geopolitics. Specifically leadership by US in Germany, Japan and South Korea are strong success stories. Can you provide a similar example for russia?

                What do you know about the evolution of healthcare under putin in the last 25 years? Can you make a factual statement about the evolution of russian healthcare without searching? Or is this a sophomoric attempt at rhetoric?

                  • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    6 months ago

                    Please, you live in a sheltered environment, you know very little about the world and you’re telling me to grow up?

                    How many languages do you speak? How many countries have you lived in for more than 12 months? How many continents?

                    The whole Assange piece is for lazy, internet edgelords. Assange is a right wing shill that collaborates with the russians; he his whole human rights thing is a ruse.