Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.
A pardon for Snowden, Assange, and Chelsea would give Biden a lot of credit
Assange is different from the other two.
Agree with what Snowden and Manning did on whatever level you like but their actions aren’t the same unfortunately.
Of the 3 Snowden is feasible.
Assange is by a large margin less altruistic than the other two - all three have paid a steep penalty for their actions, though.
Is chelsea manning in need of a pardon? I thought Obama gave her one.
He commuted her sentence.
I wonder how other government bodies would take it
The guy who passed hacked intelligence from a Russian agent to the Trump campaign whilst pretending it was from DNC staffer Seth Rich (which was an alt-right conspiracy theory) even when he knew that wasn’t true, and even after Seth Rich was dead and he knew it wasn’t true?
The guy who meddled in election outcomes because he thought he had a better shot at being pardoned by Trump?
The guy who was originally on charges for slipping a condom off whilst having sex?
Yes, this guy. This messenger you’re currently shooting deserves a pardon and multiple awards.
He exposed more corruption and illegal actions than either of us ever will. We need to encourage these heroic deeds. The FBI planted evidence on him. His client attorney privilege was violated. If he was actually such a bad person, these illegal lengths should never have been used to frame him.
He would be easier to support if he had just kept releasing important news/evidence when it was morally justified, and not got into the more questionable activities of private intelligence - such as election meddling.
Bad move on his part, makes him a lot harder to defend.
A million people died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, despite global protests and outrage. Sometimes it feels like there must be better systems than the current set up of “democracy”.
doubt that
Yeah. It’s an election year so Biden has to posture for doing things without actually doing things.
Fuck establishment democrats.
Dropping those charges doesn’t mean the CIA won’t execute a special operation.
Though, perhaps not, as if they were the case, I’d probably have happened already.
There’s no benefit to killing him. Damage is done and he’s out in the open.
They already tried to assassinate him, they failed like the worthless pissbaby traitors they are.
I have never understood under what justification the US is demanding Assange is extradited to them and charged with espionage. He is not American, doesn’t live in the US and owes no allegiance to the US. Does the US claim some kind of universal jurisdiction in this case?
Every country has “universal” jurisdiction in the sense that they can request the extradition of any foreign individual for any reason.
It’s then up to the rest of the world whether to grant that, or more specifically whatever country the individual happens to be in.
Extradition exists because otherwise crimes commited remotely across borders would be even more rampant than they already are, and it is in the interest of governments to allow other governments to prosecute individuals that commit particularly egregious crimes across a border, or escape across a border.
Whether Assange is one of those is debatable, but the US has a lot of weight to throw around and Wikileaks offended the government specifically. So here we are.
Whether Assange is one of those is debatable, but the US has a lot of weight to throw around and Wikileaks offended the government specifically. So here we are.
Isn’t there some big nuclear submarine deal going on right now between America and Australia?
They’ll just protect him with those Boeing whistleblower laws.
Oh wow now aside from considering arms restrictions against israel Biden is also considering not prosecuting someone for exposing war crimes.
Looks like people should consider voting for Democrat. Don’t do it though. Just consider it.
Only good thing he’ll ever do if he actually does it.
Covid response
American rescue plan (1.9 trillion)
Infrastructure investment and Jobs Act (1.2 trillion)
Climate Change - Rejoined Paris Agreement
American Families Plan and Social Policy (significant education, childcare, and healthcare investment)
Foreign Policy - ended the war in Afghanistan (no big deal I guess lmfao)
Elected first black woman into Supreme Court (social change for a class of oppressed minorities who still have not received reparations btw)
Should I keep going or
Not being Trump also should be on the accomplishments
Disagree. Because literally anyone but trump can do that.
Hey, don’t take my greatest accomplishment away
Hey, good job at doing it.
Not trying to disparage this list, but we all know the Paris Agreement is bullshit, and not a single country is on pace to meet it, despite signing it.
It’s kind of dumb that Biden gets to be a great president just for erasing some of the mess Trump made. I miss the days when we were actually talking about things like better healthcare, meaningful gun legislation, and education, not back to basic human fucking rights.
That’s kind of bullshit. With a divided government, Biden has managed to do more than most of his recent predecessors, much with bipartisan support. I didn’t expect much from him when I voted -was more of a “not Trump” thing - but I have to give him credit, he’s done a lot. Even just the infrastructure bill is a big deal, with positive impacts in several needed areas. The inflation reduction act is pretty major, too.
I by no means said or implied he was great for having accomplishments.
Taking a shit and showering every day is a good accomplishment but it doesn’t make me great.
Foreign Policy - ended the war in Afghanistan (no big deal I guess lmfao)
Yeah… and look at how that turned out.
Yeah I guess the only option would’ve been to continue funding a war we had no fucking business being in the first place thanks to ANOTHER Republican president.
I’m sure the girls who got to go to school would appreciate it.
Now there’s no hope for them except as obedient wives.
You just like saying words together don’t you
You don’t like what’s being said so you pretend it doesn’t make sense.
I don’t expect more from you.
Perhaps people telling you they’re confused actually mean they’re confused.
Not everything is a grand conspiracy. Toodles.
results, though?
The student debt stuff was nice, even though refinancing made me ineligible.
Or getting mandatory the overtime pay cutoff more than doubled, OTC birth control, investment in renewables and infrastructure, new anti-redlining regulations, fighting junk fees in finance, advising the DEA to reschedule MJ, domestic semiconductor investment, getting more pro-union leadership back at the NLRB, better consumer protections for flight delays an cancelations, healthcare for veteran burn pit victims…
I wish the guy was further left but there’s plenty of stuff he’s gotten done that under four more years of the orange menace would have never happened.
I know a Rick, and you’re nothing like him.
Good! Rick sucks!
Alternatively, Rick is tough to measure up to; I’ll try to do better!
Investing in infrastructure was a pretty good thing
