@notclacke This person does NOT claim to know Julian personally. Even if you know that poster personally (I suspect you don't) - do you always adopt character assassinations from others as your own viewpoint? Surely you examine information carefully & then make your own decisions? I might add that even if Julian is the devil incarnate, his actions in exposing war crimes plus perfidy & venality of Govt officials is beyond reproach. Or perhaps you also think we should not know what our Govts do?
@GLaDTheresCake Julian Assange never harmed anyone. If the poster was referring to a person in a political position who was harmed, I can only note that if such a person was "harmed", it was by their own actions being exposed. Had they not engaged in criminal / immoral activity, there would have been nothing to expose. Never shoot the messenger!
I am a refugee from authoritarian, pro-censorship Mastodon instances in the Euro-centric world, where opposing war is frowned upon. I suspect this instance is not a platform only for approved narratives of the Global North. My interests are many & varied (cycling, cartoons, gardening, traveling, ukulele), but I will mostly post on matters of geo-politics. #antiwar #anticapitalism #palestine #GlobalSouth #china #asia