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RFK Jr. and Bernie Sanders get into screaming match over Big Pharma
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Don't forget they were DKIM verified to be real and unaltered.
But Assange was turned into the villain in this story because he didn't personally hack the Republicans and get dirt on them too, and because nobody did it for him, that's all his fault somehow. I'm still not entirely convinced of the story that he somehow had similar access to similarly compromising material on the Republicans and just chose not to release it.
Yet somehow...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/media/trump-campaign-hack-news-media-report-iran-wikileaks/index.html
Huh. Hmm. Interesting. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, there's a thing called "editorial discretion" something no one seemed to think Assange deserved. Let alone once again that I have never seen definitive proof that Wikileaks had documents on Trump in 2016 that they refused to release. We even had a massive internal leak of their chats and nothing about having Trump info that they were sitting on and not releasing.
Note: Assange is shown in the chat logs to be quite the sexist and to in particular have an overly glaring hate for Hillary Clinton. I'm not saying Assange is a good dude, I'm pretty sure he's a sex pest, and he has the sexist attitude to support it. But in this instance, regarding the DNC emails, I think he was unfairly maligned.
To quote Orwell apocryphally: "The truth is the truth, even if it comes from a scoundrel."
Assange is no hero here and clearly has/ had an agenda of his own. I think if anything it shows we shouldn't rely on personalities or tribes of one for necessary acts of public good. Its a good thing that the DNC emails were leaked, and more importantly, found to be unaltered. Anything about Trump also should have just been fully released. Its a bad thing that didn't happen. It would be better if Assange had no editorial hand in what did or didn't get leaked, but thats not what happened.
Ooh fancy. Quoting Orwell and Trump now.