I can sniff you from afar

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Cake day: November 9th, 2022
  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Was Assange an asset for the US government?
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    3 days ago

    You can’t make the claim Assange/Wikileaks is a US asset just because their leaks didn’t lead to the collapse of the US or significant change.

    Did ye just handwave a bunch of evidence right here in the article?

    Again, notably absent were US soldiers, intelligence analysts, senatorial aides or anything of the sort. But somehow, Wikileaks easily found Chinese dissidents to help them (despite Chinese dissidents saying for years that speaking up against the Chinese government is very dangerous to their lives!)

    John Young, the founder of cryptome.org and a member of Wikileaks from the start, left the group in early 2007, calling it a “CIA conduit.” He has since rescinded that statement, but leaked more than 150 pages of emails sent between Wikileaks founders when he left.

    It is however concerning that in 2011, Assange told Reuters that “China is [Wikileaks’] real enemy” and that Wikileaks was looking at ways to circumvent their “censorship”,

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Was Assange an asset for the US government?
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    3 days ago

    Then what happened to those Chinese anti-gov’t leaders that made up the original Wikileaks? Did they just go to other NED-funded USAID-funded projects?

    Assange may have been a federal asset, but he face turned in 2010, plus, didn’t ye type in this:

    I am purposely not singling out Assange here, and that is because he is only one piece of Wikileaks. We will come back to him later but Wikileaks is certainly bigger than just Assange — or at least started out that way — and it is important to separate the two.

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Was Assange an asset for the US government?
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    5 days ago

    I mean, there were some (possibly political and false) rape allegations in Sweden that were quickly dropped then brought up again… however

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    elaboration

    The condom used for the rape, the main physical evidence, however, didn’t contain his DNA however

    Third, as far as AA is concerned, even the Swedish prosecution never suggested that the conduct alleged by her could amount to “rape”. In a Twitter-message of 22 April 2013, AA herself publicly denied having been raped (jag har inte blivit våldtagen). AA also stated in a tabloid interview that Assange is not violent and that neither she nor SW felt afraid of him. While I agree with the prosecution that AA’s allegations, if proven to be true, could amount to sexual assault other than rape, the fact that she submitted as evidence a condom, supposedly worn and torn during intercourse with Assange, which carried no DNA of either Assange or AA, seriously undermines her credibility.

    While at the police station, SW even texted that she “did not want to put any charges on Julian Assange” but that “the police were keen on getting their hands on him” (14:26); and that she was “chocked (sic shocked) when they arrested him” because she “only wanted him to take a test” (17:06).

    That, and he seems to be a libertarian, if you ctrl + f “libertarian” into wikipedia

    In 2010, Assange said he was a libertarian and that “WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical” and to expose injustice, not to be neutral.[34][556]

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoChina@lemmygrad.ml•Did Deng actually say "To be rich is glorious"?
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    16 days ago

    Western journalists in search of a shorthand for China’s dramatic economic turnaround will almost invariably trot this one out. But, oddly enough, it doesn’t show up much in Chinese publications, and nobody has managed to find the original source where Deng allegedly said it.

    The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in his 1984 book “To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s.” But Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times’s Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely “grew out of the zeitgeist” of China’s economic reforms.

    Nah, mate, it ain’t so…

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•A question to comrades from Vietnam (or anyone who wants to try to answer)
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    21 days ago

    Woah there, careful now… if you change culture quickly… we might have another cultural revolution on our hands…

    costanza-maoist

    Rant on Political Christianity

    Honestly, I may be a partisan with this issue, but I honestly would focus my anger modern-day political Protestantism, because it is now dominated by the western rightists in the modern-day…

    With political Catholicism, I can see its reactionary imperialist element in Vietnam or even the Philippines, and at its core, the Papal States, but do I need to remind you of the Catholic-Socialist Sandinistas, or Liberation Theology? It doesn’t seem solid that its reactionary at its core…

    Maybe if the Roman Church was replaced, the symbolic conservative bond it had would be vanquished…

    But for me, Catholicism, to me, is a tool, like Peronism, I can use its image to justify whatever political goals I have in mind… (Maybe this is a weak argument but I have gut feeling against Protestants)