• FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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    10 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”.