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Stinky The Clown

(67,812 posts) Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:24 AM Oct 2018

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Those of you who did then, do you still defend Assange and Wikileaks?

In the upper right corner of the DU window, for subscribers, is a place to click for Advanced Search. All one need do is enter the term Wikileaks and set a date range. 2014 to 2016 should be a pretty good one to try. See what comes up. Read a few threads.

Some posters took pains to defend Assange. Some say he was framed by Sweden. Many appeared to see him and Wikileaks as the forces of good. Man on a mission, exposing the machine. Fighting oligarchs and big bidniss. Slapping the corporatists.

I'm curious.

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Those of you who did then, do you still defend Assange and Wikileaks? (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Oct 2018 OP

I took a raft of shit early on for criticizing him jberryhill Oct 2018 #1

Yeah . . . . I was more neutral but was always suspicious of him. Stinky The Clown Oct 2018 #2

I'd like to send kudos to the DUers that were skeptical about wikileaks from the moment "GO!" tenderfoot Oct 2018 #3

One of them is right above, in this thread. Stinky The Clown Oct 2018 #6

I still don't get what was his business model all along, to eventually be a tool for Putin? brush Oct 2018 #4

I'm guessing he was working for Putin all along. Stinky The Clown Oct 2018 #5

I never did, and still don't. MineralMan Oct 2018 #7

Been critical of him for many years now, which hasn't changed Spider Jerusalem Oct 2018 #8

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

1. I took a raft of shit early on for criticizing him

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:41 AM

Oct 2018

Many of the Assange booster club have moved on.

Stinky The Clown

(67,812 posts)

2. Yeah . . . . I was more neutral but was always suspicious of him.

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:43 AM

Oct 2018

tenderfoot

(8,438 posts)

3. I'd like to send kudos to the DUers that were skeptical about wikileaks from the moment "GO!"

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:45 AM

Oct 2018

Stinky The Clown

(67,812 posts)

6. One of them is right above, in this thread.

Reply to tenderfoot (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 02:02 PM

Oct 2018

brush

(53,801 posts)

4. I still don't get what was his business model all along, to eventually be a tool for Putin?

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:59 AM

Oct 2018

Siding with trump and Putin doesn't make sense in the end.

Stinky The Clown

(67,812 posts)

5. I'm guessing he was working for Putin all along.

Reply to brush (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 02:02 PM

Oct 2018

MineralMan

(146,320 posts)

7. I never did, and still don't.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 02:11 PM

Oct 2018

A lot of those who did defend him no longer post here.

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

8. Been critical of him for many years now, which hasn't changed

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 02:42 PM

Oct 2018

I'm amazed so many people were taken in, really. (I feel the same about Glenn Greenwald, who still has defenders.)

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