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This is kind of end of an era.

And because of geopolitics, there aren’t that many friends of Assange left in the west. Sad, I guess?



Hackers use to fight against governmental corruption back in the days.

Whereas nowadays, they cover up for them.

What a great testimony about the decline of western democracy.


It subjectively seems to me that upto the mid 2010s hacktivists were mostly against government power abuse, but nowadays they seem to be mostly against right-wing leaning targets


It’s probably a lesser of two evil things. Do you want to stick it to the man, or prevent religious fascists from being elected?

There’s a reason Godwin repealed his law.


For when ad hominem is all you have left?




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