Julian Assange dragged from Ecuador's embassy in London and arrested

No, I believe her initial claims, not her later retractions. Why did she make the original claims of cheating? What did it buy her?

OTOH, retraction puts her back in the good graces of the billionaires and millionaires who make sure the current Democratic Party is just a less evil version of the Republicans.

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Great, you think Pelosi is evil and Bernie Sanders should have won. What does that have to do with Assange and this thread?

The only hope, as far as electoral politics presently, is the Libertarian section of the Republican Party. -Julian Assange

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I’m not going to engage your Strawman.

It either does or it doesn’t - but it’s not on me. I never brought up the 2016 election first; I’ve only responded to posts about it. So, you’ll have to go argue with the posters who started arguing about 2016.

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The point isn’t to argue. If you think they’re off-topic, maybe it’s better not to help them.

Everybody gets off-topic, of course. I just don’t see what Pelosi has to do with Assange.

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If somebody posts a lie, or a completely unsupported statement that I disagree with (and more importantly have evidence for it), I’m gonna respond.

I think, I think, that’s how chatboards work. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it should just be an echo chamber condemning Assange; after all as Daniel Ellsberg said the other day, it’s only the Bill Of Rights at risk here.

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The arcs are longer than in DS9, so yes. But-- so many people are evil and/or stupid, it’s almost painfulto watch at times.

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I thought this was quite interesting. Might explain a few things.

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Though the same intelligence agencies that identified the DNC hack as coming from Russian intelligence also found that the RNC was hacked by the same folks.

Funny we haven’t seen those emails, eh?

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It’s confirmed that his cat is ok.

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Cat%20Complaints

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Story says he wants it back. For the cat’s sake I hope he never gets it.

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Oh, and anyone wondering why some of us care about the cat: the cat is the only innocent party in this whole affair.

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It was the US electorate that ultimately choose Trump.

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There are plenty of candidates for innocent or well-intentioned people fucked over by this situation. The cat is a member of a wider group, and deserves the love and tasty nosh.

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No - Trump lost by 3 million votes.

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… and yet he is president. It certainly weren’t russians that voted for him.

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Nor did I say Russians voted for Trump.

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So the US electorate is responsible.

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No. The US electorate voted against Trump by 3 million votes.

The US system and Russian actions enabled that outcome.

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