Assange arrested

[Ausage]

A guy who has the entire deep state after him refusing to leave an embassy isn't evidence in unrelated rape accusations. That's incredibly stupid.

Not to say there isn't other evidence mind.

 

[Burgey]

Narrator: there’s no such thing as the Deep State.

 

[Ausage]

Narrator: there’s no such thing as the Deep State.

 

[Athlai]

The deep state has nothing to do with Assange. The state quite literally and openly wants him.

 

[Ausage]

The deep state has nothing to do with Assange. The state quite literally and openly wants him.

Yeah fair tbh.

 

[Spark]

The truth, as ever, is somewhere in between IMO. The conspiracy theory that there’s this active government-within-a-government conspiring to impose its will secretly on the nation and the world is farcically silly, but clearly there is a semi-permanent administrative institution that has its own imperatives and influences. It’s just not very organised, or singular.

Certainly within America, the original application of the idea of “deep state” - the quite powerful domination of the Turkish military over 60s - 80s Turkish politics - doesn’t really apply.

 

[Maximas]

The rape charge began with the 2 women contracting STDs from him and asking authorities to have him tested

 

[Burgey]

Looks like he'd still be there if he hadn't flung poo all over the walls.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

It really is the look of Succulent Chinese Meal. Which I now cannot stop watching

Of all the memes in the world this is the one I would've expected you to know about. Shocked you weren't in attendance tbh.

 

[Ausage]

The truth, as ever, is somewhere in between IMO. The conspiracy theory that there’s this active government-within-a-government conspiring to impose its will secretly on the nation and the world is farcically silly, but clearly there is a semi-permanent administrative institution that has its own imperatives and influences. It’s just not very organised, or singular.

I don't think this is as true post Trump though. I don't think it applies to the "intelligence communities" either.

 

[Spark]

I don't think this is as true post Trump though. I don't think it applies to the "intelligence communities" either.

Spontaneous order is a thing.

 

[Bahnz]

Assange always struck me as having a genuine personality disorder of some sort. He comes across as almost cartoonishly paranoid in Laura Poitras Risk (even for a guy that trades in government secrets) and his alleged comments that informants for the US in the War on Terror deserved to die for their collaboration are pretty heinous.

None of which means he deserves to rot in a US prison cell for 150 years, of course.

 

[Redbacks]

He believed in a bit of a Utopian fantasy world where by giving everyone no secrecy, corruption would be removed from society. Especially if every 'bad actor' was aware of the fact that what they communicated could be traced, then the planning of corrupt activity would be impossible.

e.g. the democrats in the last election.

 

[Spark]

He believed in a bit of a Utopian fantasy world where by giving everyone no secrecy, corruption would be removed from society. Especially if every 'bad actor' was aware of the fact that what they communicated could be traced, then the planning of corrupt activity would be impossible.

e.g. the democrats in the last election.

Everyone except totalitarian autocrats, that is. They can keep their secrets but Steve Jobs can't keep his medical records private, apparently.

 

[GIMH]

Not in court, but hiding in an embassy for 7 years to avoid trial isn't what I would expect an innocent man to do.

There’s no other reason he’d need to hide away of course