Quote from: johhnyUA on July 07, 2022, 08:26:43 PM

The same problem with Julian Assange: He hated USA so much that step-by-step turned to be ruskie-chinesee whore. No no empathy for him. I'm not glad about what happened to him, but

This has been gnawing at my conscience. I recall Lauda’s and my debate with you about empathy, to which you seem to allude with your “no, no empathy for him” remark:

Quote from: johhnyUA on February 10, 2018, 03:55:33 PM

Empathy it's one of the most important principles of humanism. [...]
BUT! I agree with you that we can't have empathy for criminals. Wink

I must modify what I just said in the other thread:

Quote from: nullius on Today at 06:29:28 AM

If you want to be my enemy, it is your choice.

If you want to be my enemy, it is your choice to attack, to insult, and to smear a man who has risked all and sacrificed all to fight for justice and for freedom—who is now essentially fighting for his life against an evil empire that has personally targeted him for destruction. And for what!? Because you got so upset by Greenwald’s reporting of facts that I cited elsewhere about American propaganda and censorship—facts you did not and could not rebut, because they are true—you could not control your spite in following me across threads, thus to bash Assange here.

Do you really want to do such a reprehensible thing? Do you hate Russia so much that you lost all reason about all else?

If that is your way of promoting the Ukrainian cause, then Ukrainians should hope that you are not their best public representative.

I stand with Assange.

Quote from: 1miau on July 07, 2022, 10:21:20 PM

Quote from: nullius on July 07, 2022, 10:03:40 PM

A totally unjustified, viciously insulting off-topic attack on Greenwald shows the soundness of your judgment here.

It might be off-topic but

So, why are you derailing a thread about Assange with your hatred for both Greenwald and Russia?

I have been following Greenwald’s reporting on this type of topic for years. Now, you effectually declare him an unperson: You forbid me to cite him about Assange in an Assange thread, on pain of you and johhnyUA trolling me across threads with a bunch of vicious, totally off-topic anti-Greenwald and anti-Russia attacks.

As I said in the other thread:

Quote from: nullius on Today at 06:29:28 AM

Quote from: johhnyUA on July 07, 2022, 08:26:43 PM

Glenn Greenwald is pro-kremlin troll
I can consider Glenn Greenwald as a Putin whore,

Quote from: 1miau on July 07, 2022, 11:03:23 PM

Greenwald is a dipshit. Cheesy

Quote from: 1miau on July 07, 2022, 09:43:04 PM

liar Glenn Greenwald has obviously purchased some real estate in Putin's ass recently.

Truly, your rationality, eloquence, and reasonableness in discourse are astonishing.

Years ago, when people on the right sneered at me that I shouldn’t read stuff by that liberal fag Greenwald, I told them to fuck off. Your cheap insults (and dogwhistles?) will not so easily dissuade me from reading the reports of a man with sterling journalistic integrity and personal courage, whom I respect for the same reason that you now ridicule him: He reports on unpopular facts that people do not want to see.

I stand with Greenwald.

And I stand with Assange.