(April 11, 2019 at 11:59 am)Divinity Wrote:(April 11, 2019 at 9:05 am)Jehanne Wrote: He was still a force for good in the World.
No, he really fucking wasn't.
He outed rape victims and gay people in saudi arabia. He played political games, and had ZERO fucking interest in holding people accountable unless it was politically convenient for HIM. So no, he wasn't a force for good in the world.
Assange was at best delusional thinking of himself as a journalistic James Bond, but I would lean to him being simply a narcissist and opportunist attention seeker.
It does no good in reality to whistle blow, if you burn down the house and the people in it die from the fire.
If you cant be Murrow or Cronkite, you do what he did.
