• FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    It’s not a strawman, it’s an obvious exaggeration to mock OP’s positions as being primitive. Stop using debatebro vocabulary you don’t understand. Try having an original thought.

    About Julian Assange, despite the guy being kind of a dipshit, he has my sympathies, and I hope he’ll be judged properly. I also hope the US will someday get better whistleblower laws. Because it hurts people doing good and brave work.

    Chelsea Manning is out of prison alive and transitioned (wouldn’t have happened in Russia). Snowden was exiled, but didn’t drink polonium tea or spend a day in prison. Both of these guys blatantly broke the law, however bad the law is. It’s not laws that were invented to jail them. They weren’t jailed just for “vibes”.

    • Collision Resistance@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      6 months ago

      It’s not laws that were invented to jail them. They weren’t jailed just for “vibes”.

      Ignorance is rewarded with upvotes here.

      Assange is being tortured for the crime of publishing facts.

      https://www.nytco.com/press/an-open-letter-from-editors-and-publishers-publishing-is-not-a-crime/

      -Joint open letter by Nyt, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País.

      Not that it would make the slightest difference to the lib cult.

      • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        We all know what happened to Assange. There are crucial differences with Navalny, like the fact that the US hasn’t laid a single finger on him yet. Stop trying to change the subject.

        The subject was: your smearing of Navalny’s name is despicable. Yes, the guy is no angel, and we’re not saying he should be president. Who Russia’s president should be is for Russians to decide. But he did not belong in a gulag.