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Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by cyborgx7 »

miles_matthias wrote: post #70
raverbashing wrote: post #35

Now the question is: will Assange follow up with his promise?

He has since amended his requirements. Listen to his interview here: https://theintercept.com/2017/04/19/intercepted-podcast-juli...

Can I get a timecode? That is a long audio file and I apparently can't quess the right keywords to find it in the transcript.

Edit: I have now listened to the whole thing and there seems to be no mention of that offer as far as I can tell. So either I missed it, you mistakenly linked the wrong interview, this is anti-Assange Propaganda you hope nobody is going to check too closely, or it is guerilla marketing for the intercept.

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by chx »

jacquesm wrote: post #16
beaconstudios wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the "having been a whistleblower in the most powerful government on the planet" part of Chelsea's story is considerably more risky than the "is transgendered" part. There aren't many people running around "gunning for" trans people in the same sense that there are people "gunning for" informants. Primarily in the sense that in the latter case they use actual guns.

Trans people are safe in very few places in the world.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-introduce... gender identity and expression has been added to Human Rights in British Columbia. But even here it's a recent development and the so called BC Liberals (in reality, they are conservatives, hello weird Canadian politics where the provincial parties have nothing to do with federal parties) voted down Mr. Chandra Herbert several times before turning around and introducing the bill themselves.

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by beaconstudios »

rmc wrote: post #149
beaconstudios wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the "having been a whistleblower in the most powerful government on the planet" part of Chelsea's story is considerably more risky than the "is transgendered" part. There aren't many people running around "gunning for" trans people in the same sense that there are people "gunning for" informants. Primarily in the sense that in the latter case they use actual guns.

Plenty of trans women are murdered around the world on a daily basis, and yes, including the USA.

I'm going to have to ask for a citation confirming that trans people (there are trans men too) are killed on a daily basis in the USA. That sounds like hyperbole.

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by sctb »

interfixus wrote: post #23

This person is male. Could we please avoid the biologically nonsensical charade of referring to him as"she"?

This comment breaks the guidelines:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by mmrezaie »

chocolatebunny wrote: post #118
rosalinekarr wrote: post #3

This is long overdue. Chelsea will probably be doing interviews soon, and since [she's already been pretty outspoken about internet freedoms][1], she may even bring some much needed attention to issues like net neutrality, government surveillance and the never ending erosion of our online rights. Let's hope the media doesn't tear her apart. [1]: https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/847264510247190532

No one is going to ask her anything about net neutrality. They'll ask her how she was treated, what she's going to do next and how she feels about the previous and current administration. She'll say something mildly negative about Trump. Trump will tweet about it, and everyone will start talking about Trump's tweet.

the myopic eyesight of the masses.

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by EvanAnderson »

TheGirondin wrote: post #97
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, many of the people that need convincing with regards to net neutrality and online rights also view her as a traitor with mental problems and thus "normal, patriotic Americans" should not worry about these things, except to prevent "liberals" from creating more "regulations" for companies and putting up barriers to keep our law enforcement from finding the "terrorists'" plans.

This comment is so loaded with strawmen and vitriol I don't think it meets our communities comment guidelines.

I took the copious use of quotation marks in the comment to indicate that it was a caricature of a type of opinion that, sadly, is out there.

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by novia »

HiggySmalls wrote: post #41
datatan wrote: post #18

Extremely rare and almost exclusive leftists killing people on the right. Like the JFK assassination (JFK was a conservative)

Ah yes, the radical liberal John Wilkes Booth killing the extremely conservative Abraham Lincoln.

Interestingly, Abraham Lincoln was actually a republican. The party lines have really shifted around a lot.

Re: Chelsea Manning released from prison

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Post by cyborgx7 »

atmosx wrote: post #145
wernsey wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention that it is the Swedes that want to talk to him. The US hasn't called for his extradition.

> The US hasn't called for his extradition. Maybe not. But I don't think he decided to spend 3-4 years in the Ecuadorian UK embassy because he's having fun there.

We don't know if the US would call for his extradition and neither does he. I understand why he would try to play it safe. I still think he should be on trial for that alleged rape.
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