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Guess I should stock up on gift shop trinkets more often, if they are so useful for securing favors.
Maxwell judge is Comey’s daughter.
Could you elaborate?
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This is true. But is "prejudging" bad? I use prejudging all the time: I prejudge people who drop the n-word in casual conversation. I prejudge people who use terms like "SJW" or "woke". And, yes, I prejudge people who use "main stream media".
Main stream media are the media who used Assange's stories when it became clear they couldn't ignore them; then helped to smear him while ignoring his torture and a long list of disproportionate and illegal actions against him. You can call them scumbag media, billionaire media, or tool of the warmongers media; but pre-judging people who use the term "main stream media" means you have chosen the side of the opulent o…
Big fan of Chomsky, but his usage of the term mainstream media is not what that term has been co-opted to mean by some of the various forces he has, and is, warning us about.
This is rather a broader problem in the UK: the country is run by an extremely small group of people who all know each other and who have the capacity to appoint each other to positions of power, all the while getting sympathetic coverage from the press, who they also crossover with. (I wonder why Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM won't investigate the House of Lords cash-for-peerages scandal? https://news.sky.com/stor…
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This is true. But is "prejudging" bad? I use prejudging all the time: I prejudge people who drop the n-word in casual conversation. I prejudge people who use terms like "SJW" or "woke". And, yes, I prejudge people who use "main stream media".
Those are all examples of Post Judgment IMO, I don't agree with you conflating the last two phrases with using the n-word as they are very different. How do You feel about "Lets go Brandon"? oops did I just destroy my earlier argument?
This is rather a broader problem in the UK: the country is run by an extremely small group of people who all know each other and who have the capacity to appoint each other to positions of power, all the while getting sympathetic coverage from the press, who they also crossover with. (I wonder why Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM won't investigate the House of Lords cash-for-peerages scandal? https://news.sky.com/stor…
The status quo was a not too different in the US. Look at legacy families like the Bushes, Clintons, Kennedys, etc. Breaking into politics requires embracing some seriously intense nepotism.
When are we going to get the diplomat's wife that murdered the kid near Mildenhall? UK should reject all extraditions to the US until that piece of work is in a UK prison. // Edit Further, we should stop all extraditions to the US until they stop the barbaric practice of capital punishment.
This was not the judge who ruled on the appeal. I see no reason to put any weight on this point.
> Giving the judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said: "That risk is in our judgement excluded by the assurances which are offered.
This is rather a broader problem in the UK: the country is run by an extremely small group of people who all know each other and who have the capacity to appoint each other to positions of power, all the while getting sympathetic coverage from the press, who they also crossover with. (I wonder why Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM won't investigate the House of Lords cash-for-peerages scandal? https://news.sky.com/stor…
Most voices in support of Assange seem to come from people with strong conviction that he is clearly a good guy (unsurprisingly). I don’t really have an opinion. Could someone provide a more impassioned / balanced list of pros and cons? From my vague point of view, I get that he is sort of a journalist (so should be protected), but also the stuff he leaked did go quite far, like borderline-espionage scale (or is that…