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doriswilgus · Post by **doriswilgus** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:19 pm

David,I don’t consider allegedly sniffing someone’s hair or invading their personal space to be the same as sexual assault.It’s a bit weird admittedly,but it’s not on the same level as sexual assault.

Post by **David** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:58 pm

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:50 pm

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:06 am

Anyhow, onto the fruits of fasco-Trumpism:

The United States on Tuesday passed 400,000 deaths from COVID-19, a stunning total that is only climbing as the crisis deepens.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5 ... rus-deaths

Post by **David** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:26 am

Tannin · Post by **Tannin** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:46 am

David wrote:A coward to the last:

Trump is also not expected to pardon Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, whose roles in revealing US secrets infuriated official Washington.

But Assange's selective leaking was what got Trump into office in the first place. Without Assange, it would have been President Clinton no questions asked. Assange was the enabler, the straw that swung the election just far enough.

Obviously Trump will pardon Assange out of gratitude and loyalty and as thanks for a job well done. Trump is big on gratitude and loyalty and .... er ...

Sorry.

As you were.

watt price tully · Post by **watt price tully** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:56 am

Post by **David** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:06 am

Tannin · Post by **Tannin** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:20 am

Bahhh.

Any one of those three was enough. Take any one away and Bingo! different result.

As for your ludicrous pretense that Assange acted "in the public interest", words fail me. Doesn't happen often, but you have managed it.

It was, of course, a deliberate, targeted attempt to sway the election, and it worked exactly as intended.

The US and Swedish attempts to get Assange both have been transparently unjust travesties. The man certainly deserves to be punished for his clueless and very damaging meddling in anything - anything at all - just so long as it makes him feel important, and utterly regardless of how many people it kills - just not for the things he was actually charged with.

PS: pretending that Trump thinks anything about leakers is silly: Trump thinks only of himself and his personal advantage. Hell, he only got into office because of a leaker. Not that gratitude is something he understands.

Post by **David** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:38 am

Tannin · Post by **Tannin** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:44 am

No, he was motivated by ego. His own massive ego.

Anyway, you got the question wrong. The correct question here is this:

If Vladimir Putin's thugs provided you with illegitimately-obtained information designed to enable the election of a spectacularly corrupt and incompetent leader, one who would be properly servile and advance Putin's interest at every opportunity, in the hope that you would spread it, would you help them?

Post by **David** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:46 am

If it were true information in the public interest, then yes. The morality or intentions of the source are irrelevant, and any journalist who says otherwise is in the wrong profession. Next question, please.

Tannin · Post by **Tannin** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:09 am

"In the public interest".

Yer right.

So doing the work for Putin's goons is "in the public interest".

The average whore has better ethics than that.

Post by **David** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:38 am

Tannin · Post by **Tannin** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:59 pm

Nothing wrong with the ethics of sex workers. It is the ethics of people prepared to prostitute themselves to Putin just to get a story - that's what we have to worry about.

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