Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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2·2 months agobecause i thought the situation described by the post was tragicomic (as was somewhat expressed by the line from it quoted in the post title)
203·2 months agoyou don’t see any downside to nuclear escalation?
the US didn’t have to coerce them to kick him out.
You think the $4.2B IMF loan package they got 30 days before his expulsion wasn’t contingent on revoking his asylum? Here is evidence that it was, two months before it happened.
He essentially got kicked out for installing spyware and listening devices into the embassy’s private network.
What? The listening devices and hidden cameras were in fact installed by the Spanish private security company who was ostensibly working for the embassy but who it turned out was also working for the CIA, for the purpose of spying on Assange (including in the bathroom, where he would go to meet with his lawyers due to his suspicion that the other rooms had been bugged), as has been well documented in both US and Spanish courts:
What is it that people in the UK don’t understand about ‘indeterminate detention without charge’?
He was detained without charge for many years, but there are charges now: the US unsealed their 2018 indictment against him immediately after they coerced Ecuador into revoking his asylum in April 2019, and they added more charges a month later.
As the linked article explains, he is currently charged with 17 counts of espionage and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. He remains in His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh while fighting the US’s extradition request.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange
As the image transcript in the post body explains, the image at the bottom is a scene from a well-known 1998 film (which, according to Wikipedia, was in 2014 selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”).
This meme will not make as much sense to people who have not seen the film. You can watch the referenced scene here. The context is that the main character, The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) has recently had his private residence invaded by a group of nihilists with a pet marmot (actually portrayed by a ferret) and they have threatened to “cut off his Johnson”. In an attempt to express sympathy, The Dude’s friend Walter (played by John Goodman) points out that, in addition to the home invasion and threats, the nihilists’ exotic pet is also illegal. The Dude’s retort “what, are you a fucking park ranger now” is expressing irritation with that observation, because it is insignificant compared with the threat of the removal of his penis.
This meme attempts to draw a parallel between this humorous scene and XZ developer Lasse Collin’s observation that the XZ backdoor was also a violation of Debian’s software licensing policies.
Thank you for reading my artist’s statement.
maybe it’s important to note he isn’t on trial for treason? The charges are for hacking and espionage.
He isn’t on trial for treason in courts of law, but he is in the court of public opinion - various commentators and some officials (including Senator Joe Lieberman and then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo) have used the word to describe his publishing.
It’s not GNUIMP it’s GIMP
what do you think the G is for
(before it was Kool, KDE was a reference to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment)
TLDR:
same old Atlantic Council pushing for nuclear war again
i think you might need to recalibrate your sarcasm detector
might I ask why you brought up WMDs in Iraq in a thread about the Uyghers in the first place
Sir, this is a
wendy’s(checks title) thread about the ongoing genocide that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza
They have influence, not governing power
The old man that this post is about literally does have governing power, not only in the UK but also in 14 other countries including Australia and Canada. A common argument made by monarchists is that the monarch’s actual influence is negligible, and their governing power should be ignored because it is only ceremonial.
As Wikipedia puts it:
Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch’s behalf. Under a modern constitutional monarchy, royal assent is considered little more than a formality. Even in nations such as the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein and Monaco which still, in theory, permit their monarch to withhold assent to laws, the monarch almost never does so, except in a dire political emergency or on advice of government.
But… there is a catch:
It turns out that there is also a less formal process (or a “parliamentary convention”; another part of the UK’s heritage is having an “unwritten constitution”, whatever that means) called King’s Consent whereby the monarch, in secret, is consulted before parliament is allowed to debate anything which might affect their personal interests. And it turns out, a lot of things might affect their personal interests, so, this procedure has been and continues to be used to review, shape, and in some cases veto, numerous laws before they are allowed to be debated by parliament. You can read more here.
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People subject to blockades have the international right to fight back
let me guess… unless they’re Palestinians, right?
Al Jazeera and AP are still reporting around 100 killed but i24NEWS is now saying “at least 211 dead and 171 more wounded”
A diplomatic cable from 2009 published by WikiLeaks quotes Colin Roberts saying “We do not regret the removal of the population” and explains the plan to declare it a marine reserve (which they subsequently did) so that “former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands”.
lol, i just accepted the title tag from the page which the create post form auto-filled 🤡