Love to be an anarchist that is against leaking of classified information and for the state showing off its military might over an arrest. Good stuff.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    i mean it would be funny if the feds were hounding this leaker guy for being a weird fascist pedophile, but that's not what's happening, they're after him for leaking classified information. Their intention is to maintain imperialism. That's what's happening here.

    goddamn, I hate Robert Evans so much. His podcast is kind of interesting but he's frequently the wrongest person

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Seymour Hersh: No one should take Bellingcat seriously. They're a public arm of the US intelligence community.

        Bellingcat: Take that back! That's insane conspiracy theory you Russian stooge! We don't represent the interests of the American state at all!

        Immediately begins investigation to find, report, & dox leaker of US government documents, cheers for excessive intimidation of whistleblowers during his capture.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        yeah but in further context this is the feds sending 5 helicopter and soldiers with rifles and full combat gear to arrest one 21 year old who leaked pentagon documents in a video game chatroom, which I do admit is a hilarious waste of resources

        that's scary to me though, because this is what they do to people who are white and ideologically on their side. They arrested this guy without incident and he'll probably get a trial. Chelsea Manning is what happens to people they don't like, thrown in jail without trial for a decade. What happens to people they really don't like? Abu Ghraib or drone strike