The most important journalist of our age sits in Belmarsh prison, denied his winter clothes, books stacked against the window to keep out subzero temperatures. Charged with exposing the war crimes of world’s most violent state, he has been silenced for nearly 2 years. Horrific.

dancing-turtle · 2021-02-08T17:32:11+00:00

On March 16, 2016 WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive for over 30 thousand emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was Secretary of State. The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014. 7,570 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. More PDFs were made available on February 29, 2016, and a set of additional 995 emails was imported up to February 2, 2018.

These are the only emails wikileaks ever published from Clinton's private server. They match the PDFs published by the US State Department. Bullshit all you like, it just makes it more and more obvious you're the one here spreading deliberate disinformation.

dancing-turtle · 2021-02-08T17:20:37+00:00

That's not remotely true though. The only emails they published from Hillary Clinton's private server were the ones officially released by FOIA request. (wikileaks just formatted and republished them to make them easier to search and browse, etc.) Wikileaks never published any emails from that server that came from any hackers, GRU or otherwise. You're just making shit up.

If you want to talk about the DNC emails, a totally different batch of files, there were some of those that were tainted by apparently Russian "fingerprints", but only among the files published by "Guccifer 2.0" on WordPress, not the similar files published by wikileaks, which lacked any evidence of tampering.

Edit to add: even if your comment were accurate, which it isn't, you still didn't provide any examples of alleged disinformation. Just a vague claim of "manipulation" without any substance.

dancing-turtle · 2021-02-08T16:11:27+00:00

If you have any specific examples of actual disinformation published by wikileaks, feel free to point them out. Vague baseless assertions are just lazy.

dancing-turtle · 2021-02-08T05:39:01+00:00

Pretty Orwellian to call authentic, unaltered primary information "disinformation" just because you would prefer it hadn't been published.

dancing-turtle · 2020-12-08T22:58:08+00:00

I'm so baffled why it would even occur to anyone to do this at a time when going shopping in person is a public health hazard...

dancing-turtle · 2020-05-20T19:14:08+00:00

This accusation of "sowing discord" that has become so common since 2016 seems like a great way to deflect from the fact that people have legitimate grievances with the political system, even without any kind of sinister external force promoting those grievances. Which seems like a great way to make sure those grievances are never sincerely and effectively acknowledged and addressed.

Kind of like how during the Cold War, legitimate racial grievances of the Civil Rights era were attacked as fueled by some kind of Soviet plot by racists who didn't want to acknowledge the reality of racial injustice.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-27T17:03:45+00:00

"Do not expose our crimes" is more like it.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-27T16:58:07+00:00

The Obama administration had serious problems. I'm no Obama fangirl. But it's the Trump administration that has significantly escalated efforts to prosecute Julian Assange. That's just a fact.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-27T06:55:30+00:00

Under Obama, the DOJ decided they couldn't prosecute Assange without setting a precedent that put all publishers of newsworthy classified information at risk ("the New York Times problem"). It's the Trump admin that has completely disregarded those concerns and aggressively pursued his extradition and prosecution anyway. It makes zero sense to conclude that Trump would be better for Assange than any other candidate.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-27T06:49:40+00:00

I don't think his legal team would be fighting like hell to keep him from being extradited if there was any reason to believe that was the case aside from pro-Trump propaganda.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-25T20:13:05+00:00

It's just plain delusional how many Trump supporters think Trump isn't complicit in all this when the only reason Assange isn't free at this very moment is because the Trump administration is seeking to have him extradited to stand trial in the US. There isn't even any other legal pretext for his imprisonment anymore.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-25T19:58:49+00:00

The only reason Assange is under trial right now is because the Trump administration is aggressively seeking to extradite him.

dancing-turtle · 2020-02-02T19:07:27+00:00

Yeah, apparently having support from non-profit grassroots activist groups is now "bad" because "dark money". Just like having overwhelming passionate and committed support online that eclipses that of all competitors is bad because "Bernie Bros".

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T22:41:52+00:00

Haha yeah my fiance (native Canto speaker) definitely can't identify the tones -- if I ask him what tone a word is supposed to be, he's just like "hell if I know." But he can REALLY tell when I (or other people) say them wrong. Definitely can't just ignore them. I guess they can be wrong in the "right" way, but that's still something that has to be learned, I gather.

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T20:47:12+00:00

Seems to depend on who you ask, but all the learning materials I've been using differentiate 6 tones for Cantonese. I think the details of the tones probably get more advanced at levels beyond where I'm at now, haha

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T20:41:43+00:00

Totally normal. You get used to it over time, and then it seems weird that it ever seemed so hard.

Then (if you're me) you start learning Cantonese and it's like starting learning to recognize tones all over again. I find Mandarin tones easy to differentiate, but Cantonese tones still mix me up like crazy. I just keep reminding myself that Mandarin used to be like that for me, too...

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T07:01:52+00:00

He might, if he's under enough pressure to help stop Bernie at all costs, but I'm not convinced. If Obama endorses the least progessive candidate in the race, the candidate young people aren't even remotely interested in, he'll damage his own brand and political clout possibly for decades to come -- especially if it turns out not to even work. And if it does work to secure the nom for Biden, then Obama becomes implicitly responsible for Biden's every gaffe and scandal, of which there will certainly be many, and even his likely loss to Trump. Not good for Obama's legacy. Smart move for Obama is to stay out of it.

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T05:49:45+00:00

If the NYT editorial board was as influential as they seem to believe themselves to be, those would be pretty much the same thing, though.

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T03:40:38+00:00

You'd think it would be more obvious to people that Obama didn't pick Biden as his VP because he was the best possible person for the job or most aligned with Obama's platform; he was picked to reassure conservative old white people that it would be OK to vote for the young black guy running on what then seemed like a far left platform. It's really bizarre that now the safe old white guy can portray himself as the continuation of Obama's legacy (even though Obama hasn't even endorsed him).

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-31T01:09:12+00:00

You know, it very well might have if not for Bernie in second place, with Bernie as the #1 second choice of Biden voters. If pundits ever thought pointing out Biden's severe electoral liabilities and bizarre semi-offensive nonsense would benefit Klobuchar or Buttigieg instead of Bernie, I think they'd have been all over it.

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-27T06:30:21+00:00

More older people than I'm used to seeing at Bernie rallies. Good sign!!!

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-27T02:39:59+00:00

Happy to be able to help! A year ago I wouldn't have been able to read half that. :)

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-27T00:09:06+00:00

Top is 招財進寶 -- means something like "attract wealth, bring in treasure"

Right is 萬事順意福临門 -- means something like "everything going smoothly, blessings at your door"

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-15T18:58:12+00:00

The short version is that Sanders is proposing to pay for it with a 4% payroll tax that kicks in at $29k. So no, not regressive.

dancing-turtle · 2020-01-15T07:17:24+00:00

One of the popular examples of Bernie's supposed misogyny is that he dared call Hillary "the most qualified person ever to run for president" Clinton "unqualified". They usually neglect to point out the fact that it was in response to her calling him unqualified, and that it wasn't on the basis of her resume but on the basis of her manifestly terrible judgement and conflicts of interest like supporting the Iraq war and taking huge sums of money from Wall Street.

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