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    Mate if these “whistleblowers” were actually doing any whistleblowing they would be getting treated the same way the US always treats whistleblowers, prison, blacksites, mysterious death, or fleeing to a non-extradition country.

    This most basic of critical thinking is all you need to do to realise that this shit stinks and that everything occurring is something the US gov and military wants to occur.

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      Not to put too fine a point on it, while I don’t believe Grusch, I think he’s a full on conspiracy nut, I will acknowledge that he was exceedingly careful to not break any laws with how he came forward and reported this. Edward Snowden and other similar whistleblowers got criminalized by doing so in an illegal fashion. When you whistleblow legally, (see: Lt Colonel Vindman in the Trump trial) you don’t get exiled to Russia.

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        Lmao I can’t fucking believe how deeply propagandised americans are. Memes like “The CIA award for excellence in journalism” exist for a god damn reason, and yet you people still parrot this shite. It’s emblematic of just how deeply engrained the civic religion is. Even doing so on the topic of bloody aliens.

        It’s completely fucking absurd. Go ahead and tell Julian Assange that you can legally do things the US military doesn’t want you to do and nothing will happen to you. Fuck me socialist youtube influencers like Second Thought get their doors knocked by armed goons from homeland security asking about their “unamerican activities”.

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          If the CIA was the cartoon supervillains you seem to think that they are, then Assange would have been hacked to pieces with bonesaws or drank some polonium tea ages ago.

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            11 months ago

            He’s been imprisoned for over a decade why the fuck would they do that? They got what they wanted the day he was forced into house arrest hidden within an embassy.