So Ecuador just confirmed they cut off Assange's internet access because he was interfering with the US election by posting the leaks. Note the timing.
I'm the last person to subscribe to a conspiracy theory or any of that shit but this is pretty fucked.
I know people will be blinded by their Hillary euphoria (again, for the record, I don't support Trump) and pretend this isn't happening but it is.
nah man no tinfoil hat
there's a lot i could write but at the end of the day everything for me comes down to that misattributed Voltaire line
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
The America I grew up admiring from afar embodied this but I don't know if it will be true in 8 years, let alone now. Roast me if you want.
in a completely unrelated note Rubio is still kicking around
(hyperbolic title but it is a good video)
Normally I would agree, and I really have no problems with this info being released. But does it sit well with you that this is a coordinated attack with thr Russian government and that they aren't doing the same for the Trump campaign and the GOP?
It was never even a secret that the RNC did not want Trump to be their nominee. If you think the DNC emails about Bernie were bad, think about the kind of shit those guys wrre emailing each other.
I don't know if it's a coordinated attack, but no it doesn't sit well with me. Nothing about the past five months sits well with me. I also agree with your RNC inference (although I'd argue at this point we don't even need those emails since they just publicly shit on him lol). However, I guess the point I'm making is that these things need to be viewed in a vacuum. Both candidates are absolute dogshit. But it seems there is a refusal to discuss certain things (such as the emails) because it will hurt one candidate or empower the other. I don't think Trump would be a good president. But I also think Clinton is transparently corrupt and it's troubling how much of a free pass it seems she is getting. When you have CNN saying it's illegal for the public to read the emails (
source) or Obama not so subtly talking about filtering the news (
source), it just makes me uneasy. This doesn't have to be a left versus right issue (for example I was all aboard the '08 Obama hype train), but it manifested as one. I just think free speech is the highest right or virtue or whatever, and I see it being eroded or the groundwork being laid for its restriction, even if marginal. And the first sign is the erosion of the media.
I know I went on a tangent and maybe I'll be dismissed as alarmist or whatever. I am admittedly right-wing but I try very hard to be objective and listen to both sides. All I'm saying is that freedom of speech is sacred and should be upheld at all costs.
