2y ago

Why Joe Biden is facing a Julian Assange problem

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Strange headline. This is a justice department and foreign relations problem that really doesn't rise to the level of a president problem.
A telling few lines:
Insider: I'm not sure Biden is personally hellbent on revenge. If Biden were to do what you wanted, he'd get hell from a large group of people who he has to work with every day.
Shipton: I'm convinced that the constituency that is against his prosecution is much larger.
So yeah... Not really a Biden problem
- There seems to be a concerted effort to try and smear liberals/democrats here lately. Attention grabbing headline that not untrue, just purposefully distorting the reality by conveniently leaving out important information.
  There was a post yesterday that has since disappeared titled “California governor Newsom vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin”, which conveniently left out that it was a copay cap, not a real cap making it a worthless token gesture.
  
  @HumbleFlamingo
  There seems to be a concerted effort to try and smear liberals/democrats here lately. Attention grabbing headline that not untrue, just purposefully distorting the reality by conveniently leaving out important information.
  You are right. The article leaves out important information, e.g., the fact that a wide range of politicians around the globe (more than 60 from Australia alone) and from a wide range of the political spectrum demand Assange's release, let alone journalists and human rights groups.
  Unfortunately, there are many communities here on Lemny with that approach - if they disagree, it must be a smear campaign. A friend of mine recently called that the 'Trumpean I-am-right-and-everyone-else-is-wrong-approach'. I said it's maybe a glimpse of the culture of debate we can expect from the future.
Fuck Julian Assange tho