RocketMan » Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:50 am wrote:Where was this government classified paper before Wikileaks "buried" it? Was it on the front page somewhere? And then that terrible Assange came and buried it? With his magical retroactive classification powers? Is that what happened?
This is truly getting bugfuck kerraazy. Where did this start? Was it when Obama was supposed to erase the last eight years and proceeded to double down on the persecution of whistleblowers and the drone assassination program? Did that finally flip the switch with some people who thought they were leftist or progressive? Did the cognitive dissonance just blow up all over the walls?
The demonization of Assange by Bush-era anti-fascist/freedom of speech warriors is truly something to behold.
Isn't it? You address the "where did this start" in the broadest sense.
But where did this specific, crazy idea start? Wikileaks was
the first and only outlet to publish this previously classified, unknown document, and we are told that this should be described, in proper Newspeak, as "withholding" or "burying" the document although
no one otherwise would have ever seen it?
And then both of our local Assange-Killers fight to the bitter end, one insisting on this nonsense, the other pulling out every device to avoid talking about it.
I do not know, but my guess is that the idea that Wikileaks "withheld" a document it published has been dispensed as a talking point by some higher-level sophist: a sophist with the authority of being a priest or wizard in the church of conventional "liberal" or "resistance" wisdom. I'm guessing this went "viral" and was seen by or eventually filtered down to our local self-appointed believers. It's hard to believe in it as a spontaneous thing, it's too specific and, really, exotic. It's also a case of trying to attack the enemy's evident, greatest strengths -- Wikileaks releases documents that should not be secret, and that you would never have otherwise seen. But in this case the "swiftboating" is done with total incompetence.
Anyway, the thing to do if I were of the same mold of thinking, if I were like Hamilton68 or I.I. or New Knowledge, would be to create a giant (and meaningless) chart of connections showing how the tweets and posts making this claim branched out from just a few sources.
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