Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:07 PM

NuclearDem (16,184 posts)

I don't think Julian Assange meant to leak this

Oopsy poopsy.

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152 replies	Author	Time	Post
I don't think Julian Assange meant to leak this (Original post)	NuclearDem	Jul 2016	OP
I don't get it. What am I missing? nt	jezebel	Jul 2016	#1
The (((brackets around a name))) is something Jewish people use online	NuclearDem	Jul 2016	#2
Oh my gosh, that's horrible. I didn't know that. thanks.	jezebel	Jul 2016	#4
Yep, in a single tweet, Wikileaks has now aligned itself with Neo-Nazis. eom	MohRokTah	Jul 2016	#9
It is interesting that they only released DNC...	scscholar	Jul 2016	#28
Gop emails are likely reverse...Trump is the outsider	citood	Jul 2016	#33
They did release a whole bunch of war crime material. Aren't the Republicans still the war party?	Scuba	Jul 2016	#50
"Aren't the Republicans still the war party?"	paulkienitz	Jul 2016	#125
Not for the first time	11cents	Jul 2016	#35
And one day, hopefully soon, he'll wear out his welcome in the Ecuadorian Embassy....	George II	Jul 2016	#65
It doesn't matter if he grills puppies and eats them on a stick.	Marr	Jul 2016	#84
Understanding the messengers motives in okay though right? Or just follow blind?	TeamPooka	Jul 2016	#87
I don't care about the messenger, or their motives.	Marr	Jul 2016	#88
To me it calls his character into question...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#139
Assange is a grossly dishonest criminal anti-semite rapist. It matters.	Maru Kitteh	Aug 2016	#148
It is literally the most basic of logical fallacies.	Marr	Aug 2016	#150
Not necessarily doubting you, but I'm very surprised at those quotes..	whathehell	Jul 2016	#101
What	liberalmike27	Jul 2016	#104
That's quite a leap.	Marr	Jul 2016	#82
In a single tweet	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#138
Sweet mother of pearl--really?	MADem	Jul 2016	#18
This!	lib87	Jul 2016	#92
Same here. I clicked on this OP to find out what it meant.	TheBlackAdder	Jul 2016	#98
Um, what?!?!!!	tallahasseedem	Jul 2016	#20
Looked to me that it was asked as a question by Assange, It was not a statement.	notadmblnd	Jul 2016	#112
Thank you for the info...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#140
Back in the day ((())) meant a "Call to Action" Alert, or intended as a major "headsup"	2banon	Aug 2016	#152
Oh no.. I didn't know either.. thank you for the explanation, ND.	Cha	Jul 2016	#23
Oh geez...........	Pharaoh	Jul 2016	#24
It's 100% true.	MohRokTah	Jul 2016	#36
keep drinking that koolaid	Pharaoh	Jul 2016	#38
"Assange did say a Jewish conspiracy was out to get him."	DemocratSinceBirth	Jul 2016	#51
From your link:	Ghost Dog	Jul 2016	#58
hadn't seen that. Thanks. nt	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#141
Or...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#142
thats half correct (unless I am misreading)	Grey Lemercier	Jul 2016	#57
That's what I read, also. It was how they attacked the reporter (Julia Ioffe, GQ)	Mc Mike	Jul 2016	#99
(((Pat Buchanan)))	alfredo	Jul 2016	#100
Not quite	leftynyc	Jul 2016	#129
He's a dinosaur, a dusty exhibit in a dark corner of a shabby museum.	alfredo	Jul 2016	#132
Unfortunately	leftynyc	Jul 2016	#133
True. "It was better in the original German." Molly Ivin	alfredo	Jul 2016	#134
Really?	krispos42	Jul 2016	#59
We use brackets like these at DU - ALL THE TIME to represent hugs.	avaistheone1	Jul 2016	#96
Think again. Additionally do DU'ers use 'Tribalist', white-supremist code word for Jews? No.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#108
There are none so blind	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#143
Seen the brackets as symbols for wi-fi, transmission sources, and for drum brakes in auto manuals.	Eleanors38	Jul 2016	#126
We do? I'm Jewish. Most of the people I know are Jewish.	Feeling the Bern	Jul 2016	#62
Here:	NuclearDem	Jul 2016	#66
No, it's a thing. It's a way to counteract a neo nazi effort to harass Jews.	Squinch	Jul 2016	#102
Harry Enten at 538 has adopted this as a way to push back against the alt-right. NT	Adrahil	Jul 2016	#123
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Jul 2016	#127
The Neo-Nazis started tagging people with (((Their name))) to identify Jews and sympathizers of Jews	MohRokTah	Jul 2016	#3
Three brackets, see here:	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#5
He's stepped in it now. True colors on display.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#6
Tells me all I need to know about wikileaks and Assange.	hrmjustin	Jul 2016	#7
Yes, and this thread needs to go to the greatest page.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#8
I think Assange is a Republican troll	world wide wally	Jul 2016	#10
BREAKING: Wikileaks aligns itself with Neo-Nazis in one tweet!!!!	MohRokTah	Jul 2016	#11
WikiLeaks, the Breitbart News for conspiracy theorists. nt	fleabiscuit	Jul 2016	#12
He did say a Jewish conspiracy was out to get him	MattP	Jul 2016	#13
Thanks for that link.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#15
Ugh. What ugliness. nt	MADem	Jul 2016	#19
Time for Snowden and Assange to face trial.	Dawson Leery	Jul 2016	#14
for what?	dynamo99	Jul 2016	#40
Sentence first, verdict after. Didn't the Queen of Hearts from Through the Looking Glass	Feeling the Bern	Jul 2016	#63
Rape	mythology	Jul 2016	#95
It is a phony charge.	avaistheone1	Jul 2016	#97
Far as the Rape Thing	liberalmike27	Jul 2016	#105
The poster said "face trial", not face trial in America.	brush	Aug 2016	#151
K&R!!!	sarae	Jul 2016	#16
Thank you.	fun n serious	Jul 2016	#17
Assange works for Putin. That ought to be enough to convince us he is no good. n/t	SleeplessinSoCal	Jul 2016	#21
Disgusting	tandot	Jul 2016	#22
Too delicious...Rapey Julian pwns himself	annavictorious	Jul 2016	#25
4chan Trump trolls are discussing it...	sarae	Jul 2016	#26
According to them, tweet's been deleted. But they've got a screen grab of it too.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#27
There are some really disturbing comments...	sarae	Jul 2016	#29
Yep, Cesspool stuff	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#32
God that site is a piece of shit	Oneironaut	Jul 2016	#54
K & R for exposure. nt	SunSeeker	Jul 2016	#30
Thoroughly disgusting. But ASSange keeps strange company even in the best of times.	Tarheel_Dem	Jul 2016	#31
brackets to target persons to harrass seemed to rise-up from trumps twitter friend the Star-graphic	Sunlei	Jul 2016	#34
Is he leaking? Drip drip drip.	Rex	Jul 2016	#37
Disgusting	Cary	Jul 2016	#39
4chan	dynamo99	Jul 2016	#42
I am still very confused	Doctor Jack	Jul 2016	#41
It means that it's another "conservative" phony scandal	Cary	Jul 2016	#43
Someone at wikileaks wanted to draw attention to Jews, or people in solidarity with Jews,	muriel_volestrangler	Jul 2016	#46
Tweet translation: "Evil Jews Are Criicizing Me and Wikileaks"	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#77
hes a nut	MFM008	Jul 2016	#44
K & R	Scurrilous	Jul 2016	#45
This doesn't surprise me...	BooScout	Jul 2016	#47
Oh, dear! I thought putting brackets around someone's name sent ((( hugs ))) to that person.	Petrushka	Jul 2016	#48
Lol....	giftedgirl77	Jul 2016	#53
Thank you for the Lol . . .	Petrushka	Jul 2016	#55
He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......	msanthrope	Jul 2016	#49
Wow. Just wow.	greatauntoftriplets	Jul 2016	#52
They can never keep the mask on forever.	Loki	Jul 2016	#56
here is an article (and wikileaks actually posted a 2nd, double down tweet)	Grey Lemercier	Jul 2016	#60
Thank you so much for the link n/t	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#78
Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump	riversedge	Jul 2016	#61
He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......	msanthrope	Jul 2016	#68
Now I'm beginning to see a link here.	Loki	Jul 2016	#64
Julian Assuage is a pig	ismnotwasm	Jul 2016	#67
The internet makes politics global, doesn't it? Incredible times.	nolabear	Jul 2016	#69
The board's neoliberal champ has spoken.	runaway hero	Jul 2016	#70
Julian Assange is "the board's neoliberal champ"?	OilemFirchen	Jul 2016	#71
I was talking about the OP.	runaway hero	Jul 2016	#74
Yeah, except not.	NuclearDem	Jul 2016	#80
Well done, great to see you push back on lies about you n/t	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#109
Wrong board...	Loki	Jul 2016	#72
I was talking about the OP.	runaway hero	Jul 2016	#73
sad to see some still apologizing for him.	KittyWampus	Jul 2016	#75
WikiLeaks Jew Hatred	Mosby	Jul 2016	#76
Thread on Israel Shamir....	msanthrope	Jul 2016	#86
K & R for continuing exposure.	revmclaren	Jul 2016	#79
Spin off: Gen Michael Flynn retweeted an anti-Semitic tweet from a wikileaks fan.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#81
I suspect he was referring to presumed hipsters . . .	MrModerate	Jul 2016	#83
Sorry, doesn't explain away the use of 'Tribalists'	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#85
Yes. I am an M.O.T.	OilemFirchen	Jul 2016	#89
Kick	Scurrilous	Jul 2016	#90
Wikileaks: Hitler approved.	Dawson Leery	Jul 2016	#91
What a great thread!	R B Garr	Jul 2016	#93
Interesting thread.	Behind the Aegis	Jul 2016	#94
Exactly. Doesn't this all seem a bit too manufactured?	Hestia	Jul 2016	#103
Why all this sudden vitriol against WikiLeaks and Assange?	Helen Borg	Jul 2016	#106
Because majority of DU'ers push back on those who use white-supremacist dog-whistles like	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#110
Righto...	Helen Borg	Jul 2016	#119
Wiki Exposes Hillary's crooked DWS	liberalmike27	Jul 2016	#107
liberalmike exposes his tolerance for neo-Nazi and white-supremacist code words	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#111
Sorry, but I read the David Duke link and I see no connection to Assange at all.	avaistheone1	Jul 2016	#113
So Wikileaks tweet did not use the code-word "Tribalist" in his tweet?	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#114
Tribalist has several different connotations,	avaistheone1	Jul 2016	#116
Enlighten me on the positive uses of these neo-Nazi code words.	emulatorloo	Jul 2016	#117
No - the use of 3 brackets	leftynyc	Jul 2016	#130
Why Thank You	liberalmike27	Jul 2016	#135
Yawwwwwnnnnnn	leftynyc	Jul 2016	#136
FWIW, some teenaged little shit usually mans the official wikileaks twitter	Blue_Tires	Jul 2016	#115
Wikileaks RTs one of our old favorites:	Blue_Tires	Jul 2016	#118
After reading the various links in the postings on this thread, I must say this this thread is	avaistheone1	Jul 2016	#120
Yup:	Hissyspit	Jul 2016	#122
Another classic: The "Jewish Pro-Censorship Lobby"	Blue_Tires	Jul 2016	#121
I doubt he cares.	Behind the Aegis	Jul 2016	#124
Not the first time	leftynyc	Jul 2016	#128
People are putting ((( echoes ))) around their names on Twitter – here’s why	Agnosticsherbet	Jul 2016	#131
I used to be on the fence about this guy...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#137
I'm not buying this . .	FairWinds	Jul 2016	#144
It's not character assassination when the depiction of one's character is accurate. nt	msanthrope	Jul 2016	#146
If your enemy brought you truth, would you refuse it?	snot	Jul 2016	#145
Remind me, which Article deals with foreign espionage as a check on government?	NuclearDem	Jul 2016	#147
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Aug 2016	#149

Response to NuclearDem (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:09 PM

jezebel (1,772 posts)

1. I don't get it. What am I missing? nt

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Response to jezebel (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:12 PM

NuclearDem (16,184 posts)

2. The (((brackets around a name))) is something Jewish people use online

to break how a particular Neo-Nazi browser extension works to identify Jewish people.

Basically, Assange (or whoever's running that Twitter account) thinks the evil Joos are out to get him.

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:13 PM

jezebel (1,772 posts)

4. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. I didn't know that. thanks.

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:17 PM

MohRokTah (15,429 posts)

9. Yep, in a single tweet, Wikileaks has now aligned itself with Neo-Nazis. eom

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Response to MohRokTah (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:17 AM

scscholar (2,902 posts)

28. It is interesting that they only released DNC...

emails but removed to release GOPper emails.

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Response to scscholar (Reply #28)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:33 AM

citood (550 posts)

33. Gop emails are likely reverse...Trump is the outsider

Any such RNC emails would probably support Trump's claims of the system being rigged against him.

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Response to scscholar (Reply #28)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 07:08 AM

Scuba (53,475 posts)

50. They did release a whole bunch of war crime material. Aren't the Republicans still the war party?

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Response to Scuba (Reply #50)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:19 PM

paulkienitz (1,281 posts)

125. "Aren't the Republicans still the war party?"

Nowadays, that's a good question. Given how, um, engaged Hillary is in the world's various crises, and what a hands-off attitude Trump takes in comparison (especially if it benefits Putin) toward anyone we aren't already fighting today, that distinction is not at all clear anymore.

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Response to MohRokTah (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:03 AM

11cents (1,777 posts)

35. Not for the first time

Assange has said his critics are all "Jews and sissies." His antisemitism, misogyny, and homophobia are well-attested. He's a fascist.

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Response to 11cents (Reply #35)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:57 AM

George II (67,782 posts)

65. And one day, hopefully soon, he'll wear out his welcome in the Ecuadorian Embassy....

....and get kicked out and have to face the real world.

Sad state of affairs, wikileaks' founder is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy and Edward Snowden holed up in Moscow.

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Response to 11cents (Reply #35)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:43 PM

Marr (20,317 posts)

84. It doesn't matter if he grills puppies and eats them on a stick.

It doesn't change the information that's been released one iota. Shooting the messenger is a waste of time.

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Response to Marr (Reply #84)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 04:42 PM

TeamPooka (23,403 posts)

87. Understanding the messengers motives in okay though right? Or just follow blind?

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Response to TeamPooka (Reply #87)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 06:27 PM

Marr (20,317 posts)

88. I don't care about the messenger, or their motives.

Both are irrelevant. Unless you're arguing about the veracity of the information they're presenting. If that's not under dispute, I don't see how the messenger matters at all.

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Response to Marr (Reply #84)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 05:00 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

139. To me it calls his character into question...

and makes me wonder whether the information he released was modified to meet his agenda. Whether he did or didn't doesn't matter now, some people will think it. Fuck him and the Aryan horse he rode in on.

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Response to Marr (Reply #84)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 02:04 AM

Maru Kitteh (27,325 posts)

148. Assange is a grossly dishonest criminal anti-semite rapist. It matters.

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Response to Maru Kitteh (Reply #148)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:12 PM

Marr (20,317 posts)

150. It is literally the most basic of logical fallacies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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Response to 11cents (Reply #35)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 09:00 AM

whathehell (28,568 posts)

101. Not necessarily doubting you, but I'm very surprised at those quotes..

Do you have any links to those quotes? They are quite scary and fascistic

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Response to 11cents (Reply #35)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:37 AM

liberalmike27 (2,474 posts)

104. What

So Assange believes in corporatism? (Fascist?) I don't think the things you listed make him Fascist, just perhaps bigoted. Bigotry and xenophobia are usually just the tools of fascism.

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Response to MohRokTah (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:41 PM

Marr (20,317 posts)

82. That's quite a leap.

We have several posters here-- people you generally agree with, if I'm not mistaken-- who brazenly showed off their antisemitism at other sites during the primary.

Are they 'aligned with Neo-Nazis', too?

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Response to MohRokTah (Reply #9)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 04:51 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

138. In a single tweet

I am no longer on the fence about him.

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:39 PM

MADem (135,425 posts)

18. Sweet mother of pearl--really?

I have seen that on twitter but I did not know that there was any significance beyond style--I just thought it was trendy/cool or something, and I, being old, wasn't clued in.

DU is such a resource--I've learned something new today.

And I've learned another thing about Assange. smdh.

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Response to MADem (Reply #18)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 08:47 PM

lib87 (535 posts)

92. This!

And I didn't know Assange was this nasty. I thought he was just a simple whistle blower.

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Response to MADem (Reply #18)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 05:58 AM

TheBlackAdder (27,365 posts)

98. Same here. I clicked on this OP to find out what it meant.

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:48 PM

tallahasseedem (6,716 posts)

20. Um, what?!?!!!

I had no idea this was even a thing! This is terrible...

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Response to tallahasseedem (Reply #20)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 01:07 PM

notadmblnd (23,720 posts)

112. Looked to me that it was asked as a question by Assange, It was not a statement.

Now here is what I found on the internet about it. Hopefully it will clear up some of the confusion that the OP caused.

What does it mean?

The brackets, known as “echoes”, are a far-right invention, to identify Jewish Twitter users, so that other antisemites can then attack them online. The raising of a rabble is not limited to antisemites – misogynist fury can likewise manifest in epic crowds, virtual-baying. But there is something about ((())) that is uniquely unnerving, the secrecy conferring a sense of a developed and organised network of hate. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, described how it played out for him following the publication of his article on Donald Trump. A Twitter user triple bracketed him in a tweet, and he was subjected to a sudden hurricane of abuse, images of concentration camps and death threats that has yet to abate.
Who else uses it?

Old-school white supremacists have new allies: the self-styled alternative right, or “alt-right”, promulgators of online viciousness, much of it racist in theme. They cite the rise of Trump as a key factor in their growing confidence, as well as the refugee crisis. They think of themselves as modern, which, to give them credit, they are, since they have managed to weaponise the internet, turning virtual threats into real-life fear. Their tools are hacking and doxing (publishing personal details, home addresses and other whereabouts, of victims), and often just marshalling huge amounts of hostility on to a single target.
Why are people putting the echo symbol around their own name?

Those who want to show solidarity with Jewish people who have been attacked, and indeed, Jewish people generally. The Twitter user @andrewcb explains: “It’s a bit like the urban legend about the Danish king wearing a yellow star during the occupation.” As the myth has it, King Christian X wore a star in response to Nazi requests that he solve his “Jewish problem”, and all the Danish people followed suit, which led the identifier to become meaningless.

Nothing makes the alt-right angrier than the puckish appropriation of a tag, trope or practice in order to mock it and show solidarity with those it is intended to offend. Reclaiming symbols, words and hashtags isn’t new: recent examples include the #1in5Muslims hashtag, in response to the Sun’s radically unintelligent reading of a poll, and #DistractinglySexy, in which female scientists responded to Tim Hunt’s evaluation of women in his field by tweeting portraits of themselves at work in the lab or outdoors. Those women came in for some incredible abuse – as vilified for objecting to Hunt as he was for his original remark. On the internet, sexism and objecting to sexism are basically interchangeable, in terms of what they cost. But they did it anyway.
So, should you put brackets round your name?

Yes, you should. I’m going to.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2016/jun/12/echoes-beating-the-far-right-two-triple-brackets-at-a-time

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Response to notadmblnd (Reply #112)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 05:02 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

140. Thank you for the info...

I had heard about the triple brackets, but not read a full explanation.

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Response to notadmblnd (Reply #112)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 12:40 AM

2banon (7,321 posts)

152. Back in the day ((())) meant a "Call to Action" Alert, or intended as a major "headsup"

Direct Call to Action.

I can't believe this is supposed to be assumed as anti-semitic symbol.

Activists from the start of the internet from my neck of the woods (in the SF Bay Area) used it often and frequently, particularly during the run up to the Iraq War, before then it was the WTO, and all manner of huge events to attend or protest.

Maybe the exclamation point will be next..

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:02 AM

Cha (289,503 posts)

23. Oh no.. I didn't know either.. thank you for the explanation, ND.

Like he's out to get Dems?

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:03 AM

Pharaoh (8,209 posts)

24. Oh geez...........

are you kidding?

You really believe that?

This is Called shooting the messenger.

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Response to Pharaoh (Reply #24)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:06 AM

MohRokTah (15,429 posts)

36. It's 100% true.

The truth hurts. Wikileaks are Nazis.

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Response to MohRokTah (Reply #36)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:19 AM

Pharaoh (8,209 posts)

38. keep drinking that koolaid

I heard the grape is good.........

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Response to Pharaoh (Reply #38)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 07:42 AM

DemocratSinceBirth (99,121 posts)

51. "Assange did say a Jewish conspiracy was out to get him."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-jewish-conspiracy-comments

If you believe anti-semitism is of no moment there is nothing I can do to disabuse you of that notion.

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Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #51)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:14 AM

Ghost Dog (16,881 posts)

58. From your link:

Assange denied the allegations in a statement , saying: "Hislop has distorted, invented or misremembered almost every significant claim and phrase. In particular, 'Jewish conspiracy' is completely false, in spirit and in word.

The phrase you place in between quote marks, on the other hand, does not occur in the article.

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Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #51)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 05:03 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

141. hadn't seen that. Thanks. nt

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Response to Pharaoh (Reply #24)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 05:04 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

142. Or...

it's also called "exposing an anti-Semite". Sorry, I can no longer take this chump seriously.

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:01 AM

Grey Lemercier (1,429 posts)

57. thats half correct (unless I am misreading)

Neo nazis started using the (((brackets around a name))) years ago to "identify" a Jew. Then they did develop browser extensions to make it easier. Recently people started using them for many things to confuse and ridicule the nazis as a sort of push back. If that what you meant, I apologise for the misinterpretation.

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Response to Grey Lemercier (Reply #57)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 07:43 AM

Mc Mike (9,089 posts)

99. That's what I read, also. It was how they attacked the reporter (Julia Ioffe, GQ)

who did a Melania dRumpf story that dRumpf didn't like. So they mobilized a ton of nazi post-ers to get her

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/339709/journalist-flooded-with-neo-nazi-hate-after-writing-melania-trump-profile/

They used the nazi (((echo))), now some anti-right twitter users are self-tagging with it.

"Known as the “echo,” the symbol consists of three parentheses around a Jewish person’s name, for example, (((Efrem))). According to Mic, the symbol was first introduced in 2014 by a right-wing website The Right Stuff in their podcast called The Daily Shoah, and serves as a bat signal of sorts. Or as a neo-Nazi said to Goldberg, “It’s closed captioning for the Jew blind.”

A Google Chrome browser plugin, known as the “Coincidence Detector,” facilitates the search by automatically placing an echo on Jewish-sounding names and organizations and replacing the word Israel as users browse the web. For example, Israel appears as (((Our Greatest Ally))), and every (((Cohen)))), (((Katz))) and (((Weinberg))) were also sandwiched in parentheses."

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.722964

Mel and l'il donnie of course refused to condemn their nazi 'fans', saying that Ioffe is to blame, because her words 'provoked' the nazis.

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/340872/melania-trump-jewish-journalist-provoked-neo-nazi-death-threats/

Of course, none of the dRumpfenfuhrer's words on the campaign provoked any of the violence his fans have been engaging in.

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Response to Grey Lemercier (Reply #57)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 08:52 AM

alfredo (59,926 posts)

100. (((Pat Buchanan)))

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Response to alfredo (Reply #100)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:36 PM

leftynyc (26,060 posts)

129. Not quite

It's how someone like pat would identify a Jewish person without calling them a dirty Jew.

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Response to leftynyc (Reply #129)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 06:57 PM

alfredo (59,926 posts)

132. He's a dinosaur, a dusty exhibit in a dark corner of a shabby museum.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 07:42 PM

leftynyc (26,060 posts)

133. Unfortunately

The speech he gave in 1992 that disgusted everyone would have been met with a standing ovation last week.

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Response to leftynyc (Reply #133)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 08:29 PM

alfredo (59,926 posts)

134. True. "It was better in the original German." Molly Ivin

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:19 AM

krispos42 (49,445 posts)

59. Really?

I thought it was to indicate hugging somebody.

I feel old now.

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Response to krispos42 (Reply #59)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 01:57 AM

avaistheone1 (14,626 posts)

96. We use brackets like these at DU - ALL THE TIME to represent hugs.

Looks like we got a group of peeps here trying to make something out of nothing.

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Response to avaistheone1 (Reply #96)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:41 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

108. Think again. Additionally do DU'ers use 'Tribalist', white-supremist code word for Jews? No.

Article on three brackets:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

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Response to avaistheone1 (Reply #96)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 05:10 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

143. There are none so blind

as those who will not see.

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Response to krispos42 (Reply #59)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:30 PM

Eleanors38 (18,318 posts)

126. Seen the brackets as symbols for wi-fi, transmission sources, and for drum brakes in auto manuals.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:47 AM

Feeling the Bern (3,839 posts)

62. We do? I'm Jewish. Most of the people I know are Jewish.

I have never seen this in my life, and neither have they.

Maybe this Jew is missing something here.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:34 PM

NuclearDem (16,184 posts)

66. Here:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

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Response to Feeling the Bern (Reply #62)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 09:25 AM

Squinch (49,292 posts)

102. No, it's a thing. It's a way to counteract a neo nazi effort to harass Jews.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:44 PM

Adrahil (13,340 posts)

123. Harry Enten at 538 has adopted this as a way to push back against the alt-right. NT

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:13 PM

MohRokTah (15,429 posts)

3. The Neo-Nazis started tagging people with (((Their name))) to identify Jews and sympathizers of Jews

on forums and Twitter so they could organize harrassment.

In response to fuck up their apps to find these tags, people started putting the ((())) arund their Twitter handles.

That Wikileaks tweet is a dogwhistle for Neo-Nazism.

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Response to jezebel (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:14 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

5. Three brackets, see here:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:15 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

6. He's stepped in it now. True colors on display.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:15 PM

hrmjustin (71,265 posts)

7. Tells me all I need to know about wikileaks and Assange.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:17 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

8. Yes, and this thread needs to go to the greatest page.

Rec it up if you haven't already.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:17 PM

world wide wally (21,590 posts)

10. I think Assange is a Republican troll

Maybe not him personally, but whoever is running that account

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:18 PM

MohRokTah (15,429 posts)

11. BREAKING: Wikileaks aligns itself with Neo-Nazis in one tweet!!!!

This is huge news.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:18 PM

fleabiscuit (4,542 posts)

12. WikiLeaks, the Breitbart News for conspiracy theorists. nt

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:18 PM

MattP (3,304 posts)

13. He did say a Jewish conspiracy was out to get him

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-jewish-conspiracy-comments

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:20 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

15. Thanks for that link.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:43 PM

MADem (135,425 posts)

19. Ugh. What ugliness. nt

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:19 PM

Dawson Leery (19,338 posts)

14. Time for Snowden and Assange to face trial.

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Response to Dawson Leery (Reply #14)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:04 AM

dynamo99 (48 posts)

40. for what?

Assange isn't a US citizen, whatever he's done wasn't done in the US. Or are you taking the position that American law rules the world?

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:48 AM

Feeling the Bern (3,839 posts)

63. Sentence first, verdict after. Didn't the Queen of Hearts from Through the Looking Glass

teach you anything about proper adjudication of justice?

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 01:18 AM

mythology (9,527 posts)

95. Rape

The little pissant has hidden long enough. I'm taking the radical position that a guy who has been accused of rape shouldn't be allowed to hide until the statute of limitations runs out.

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Response to mythology (Reply #95)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:00 AM

avaistheone1 (14,626 posts)

97. It is a phony charge.

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Response to mythology (Reply #95)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:45 AM

liberalmike27 (2,474 posts)

105. Far as the Rape Thing

I find it suspicious, that anyone who seems to run afoul of the MIC, gets accused of rape, or worse. See Scott Ritter, of Iraq chemical weapons fame--said there weren't any, and it wasn't what the MIC or Bush wanted to hear. Suddenly he's a rapist, or child molester, my memory fails.

Anyway, an accusation isn't a conviction.

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Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:57 PM

brush (49,961 posts)

151. The poster said "face trial", not face trial in America.

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Response to NuclearDem (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:21 PM

sarae (3,284 posts)

16. K&R!!!

Wow...

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:37 PM

fun n serious (4,451 posts)

17. Thank you.

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:55 PM

SleeplessinSoCal (8,357 posts)

21. Assange works for Putin. That ought to be enough to convince us he is no good. n/t

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:57 PM

tandot (6,671 posts)

22. Disgusting

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:13 AM

annavictorious (934 posts)

25. Too delicious...Rapey Julian pwns himself

and then insists he was ironically re-appropriating the triple brackets.

Hopefully by tomorrow, he'll be able to come up with a bullshit reason for using the dog whistle term the "tribalist".

In the meantime, Rapey Julian is reassuring all his fanboys that the "Clinton hegemony" is the real danger, not Putin.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:13 AM

sarae (3,284 posts)

26. 4chan Trump trolls are discussing it...

warning: NSFW
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/82436424/wikileaks-no

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:17 AM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

27. According to them, tweet's been deleted. But they've got a screen grab of it too.

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Response to emulatorloo (Reply #27)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:25 AM

sarae (3,284 posts)

29. There are some really disturbing comments...

like:

I saw this. If I hadn't seen it before it was deleted, I wouldn't believe it.

We're going to win. We're going to make the West great again. We're even going to meme normies into our fold.

Lmao. WikiLeaks accidentally redpilled itself

They may try to publicly backtrack but once you spot the pattern, there's no going back

>tribalist
just that word enough tells me they knew it means Jews. "the tribe" as they call themselves.

I think this was strategic. And intentional. Assange no doubt knows how much the Jews hate being named. So he did it to tell them, back off, or I'll name you FURTHER. I daresay he is sitting on so much dirty material about so many powerful people. This may even have been aimed at a particular Jew or Jews....

kek the damage control

LITERALLY saying "I-IT'S MERELY A COINCIDENCE, RIGHT!?"

That just means Bernie's main base becomes right-wing bigots overnight.

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Response to sarae (Reply #29)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:28 AM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

32. Yep, Cesspool stuff

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Response to sarae (Reply #26)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 09:22 AM

Oneironaut (4,965 posts)

54. God that site is a piece of shit

Obnoxious memes blasted every five seconds and le-edgy teenagers who forgot to turn off their caps lock key. I forgot how annoying 4Chan really was.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:25 AM

SunSeeker (50,326 posts)

30. K & R for exposure. nt

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:26 AM

Tarheel_Dem (31,144 posts)

31. Thoroughly disgusting. But ASSange keeps strange company even in the best of times.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:37 AM

Sunlei (22,651 posts)

34. brackets to target persons to harrass seemed to rise-up from trumps twitter friend the Star-graphic

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:18 AM

Rex (65,616 posts)

37. Is he leaking? Drip drip drip.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:21 AM

Cary (11,742 posts)

39. Disgusting

What is this site?

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/82436424/wikileaks-no

WTF?

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:18 AM

dynamo99 (48 posts)

42. 4chan

is a web forum that provides total anonymity and is known for, among other things, outrageous behavior of its denizens, obscenity, hoaxes, and Anonymous. Their .com home page advertises "free nude cams and live sex cams". Now, while I don't have anything in particular against voyerism, porn, or sex cams, this does suggest that one might want to be careful in assigning weight to content that is found there.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:13 AM

Doctor Jack (3,072 posts)

41. I am still very confused

I saw Nate Silver retwetted this story but I have no clue what is going on. The only comment was "Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit".

What does this have to do with politics? What does something apperently about Jewish people have to do with wikileaks? Really what does any of this mean? Pretend I am 10 years old. Explain to me what is going on because i havent got a clue.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:50 AM

Cary (11,742 posts)

43. It means that it's another "conservative" phony scandal

Until the next news cycle

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 04:31 AM

muriel_volestrangler (100,035 posts)

46. Someone at wikileaks wanted to draw attention to Jews, or people in solidarity with Jews,

criticising them. They seemed to think saying "most of our critics are Jewish, or are against hatred of Jews" was a good way of countering them. At best, it looks like "don't pay attention to them, they're Jews or bleeding-heart liberals"; at worst, it's "the evil Jews are out to get Wikileaks!!!".

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:46 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

77. Tweet translation: "Evil Jews Are Criicizing Me and Wikileaks"

It is a radically anti-Semitic tweet. Hope that helps.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 03:43 AM

MFM008 (19,725 posts)

44. hes a nut

wikileeks is nuts.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 03:53 AM

Scurrilous (38,676 posts)

45. K & R

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 04:39 AM

BooScout (10,406 posts)

47. This doesn't surprise me...

He's a total whack job.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 04:41 AM

Petrushka (3,709 posts)

48. Oh, dear! I thought putting brackets around someone's name sent ((( hugs ))) to that person.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 08:30 AM

giftedgirl77 (4,713 posts)

53. Lol....

Shit, I'm 38 & had not a clue.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 09:43 AM

Petrushka (3,709 posts)

55. Thank you for the Lol . . .

. . . I needed that!

(((( giftedgirl77 )))))

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 06:24 AM

msanthrope (37,549 posts)

49. He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026388527

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 08:29 AM

greatauntoftriplets (174,992 posts)

52. Wow. Just wow.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 09:56 AM

Loki (3,823 posts)

56. They can never keep the mask on forever.

It always slips and shows us the rotting cesspool beneath.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:22 AM

Grey Lemercier (1,429 posts)

60. here is an article (and wikileaks actually posted a 2nd, double down tweet)

Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump

https://heatst.com/politics/wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump/

Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.

However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

break

The (( )) symbol is used by Jews and their supporters to fight back against the anti-semitism of the alt-right.

Many liberals on Twitter who had previously supported Assange were mortified. Brianna Wu kindly showed me the second, double-down tweet of racism from a presumably blind drunk Assange:

By Louise Mensch | 9:25 pm, July 23, 2016
Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.

However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

J A antisemite

The (( )) symbol is used by Jews and their supporters to fight back against the anti-semitism of the alt-right.

Many liberals on Twitter who had previously supported Assange were mortified. Brianna Wu kindly showed me the second, double-down tweet of racism from a presumably blind drunk Assange:

13h
Louise Mensch ✔ @LouiseMensch
@Spacekatgal @dhw @wikileaks @JulianAssange_ did he put up two? I only have a shot of one
Follow
Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal
@LouiseMensch @dhw @wikileaks @JulianAssange_ Here's the follow up. pic.twitter.com/pWb5w7ouSP
2:35 AM - 24 Jul 2016
View image on Twitter
1 1 Retweet 2 2 likes
Not only the denigration of the ((())) symbol but also the use of the term ‘tribalist’ to imply Jews is, of course, base racism, a particular racism that Putin shares.

View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter
Follow
Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD
Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.
1:16 AM - 24 Jul 2016
1,189 1,189 Retweets 1,252 1,252 likes
14h
Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD
The black-rim glasses part is just hilarious. Imagine not knowing about both modern antisemitism and the timeless appeal of Ray-Bans.
Follow
Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD
Are you fucking kidding me https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/756992600574484480 … pic.twitter.com/oDpFA6BMZZ
1:26 AM - 24 Jul 2016
View image on Twitter
165 165 Retweets 159 159 likes

When I pointed out the rabid anti-semitism of these tweets Assange/Julian replied to me saying it wasn’t racist:

@LouiseMensch Nonsense. Our critique is of those who are not anti-racists but who are using it as a pro-establishment designator.
On being challenged about not leaking anything against Putin, wikileaks / Assange replied they/he had done so, but linked to a site full of pro-Putin propaganda leaks:

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Response to Grey Lemercier (Reply #60)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:47 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

78. Thank you so much for the link n/t

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:43 AM

riversedge (67,541 posts)

61. Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump

Much for including meaning of ((())) and Assange Response tweets:

Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump

https://heatst.com/politics/wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump/

By Louise Mensch | 9:25 pm, July 23, 2016

Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.

However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

J A antisemite

?quality=80&strip=info

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:43 PM

msanthrope (37,549 posts)

68. He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028042165

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:48 AM

Loki (3,823 posts)

64. Now I'm beginning to see a link here.

DWS is Jewish. What better way to sow discord in the DNC and among Democrats that to have this provocateur Julian Assange start spewing his anti-Semitic hate and truly do Trump and Putin's work for them. This shit stinks to high heaven and to those who are promoting this spew on this site, fuck you.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:41 PM

ismnotwasm (41,513 posts)

67. Julian Assuage is a pig

Once you start researching him, that's first of all impressions that evolves. A ugly human being.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:08 PM

nolabear (41,535 posts)

69. The internet makes politics global, doesn't it? Incredible times.

I suspect internet security is a field that's hiring.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:10 PM

runaway hero (835 posts)

70. The board's neoliberal champ has spoken.

Great, now let's make sure trump doesn't win

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Response to runaway hero (Reply #70)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:14 PM

OilemFirchen (6,960 posts)

71. Julian Assange is "the board's neoliberal champ"?

That's just weird.

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Response to OilemFirchen (Reply #71)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:24 PM

runaway hero (835 posts)

74. I was talking about the OP.

the one who wanted to escalate us involvement in syria.

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Response to runaway hero (Reply #74)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:16 PM

NuclearDem (16,184 posts)

80. Yeah, except not.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027303049

NO NO NO NO FUCK THIS NO NO

First Afghanistan and now fucking Syria!

Hey dumbasses, remember that little mess at the VA you still haven't cleaned up? Maybe you finish taking care of the veterans you have now before you make new ones!

God fucking damn it, do we actually matter to any of you?!

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Response to NuclearDem (Reply #80)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:44 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

109. Well done, great to see you push back on lies about you n/t

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Response to runaway hero (Reply #70)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:16 PM

Loki (3,823 posts)

72. Wrong board...

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:24 PM

runaway hero (835 posts)

73. I was talking about the OP.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:39 PM

KittyWampus (55,894 posts)

75. sad to see some still apologizing for him.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 01:42 PM

Mosby (15,015 posts)

76. WikiLeaks Jew Hatred

Back in 2011, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange denied he was antisemitic, after reportedly making some statements that suggested he might just be.

Julian Assange has blamed a number of journalists for a “Jewish” conspiracy against his whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, according to the editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop.

In the latest issue of the satirical magazine, Hislop writes that Assange called him on 16 February to complain about an article on Israel Shamir, a WikiLeaks associate in Russia who has denied the Holocaust and has published a string of antisemitic articles.

“He said that I and Private Eye should be ashamed of ourselves for joining in the international conspiracy to smear WikiLeaks,” Hislop writes. “The piece was an obvious attempt to deprive him and his organisation of Jewish support and donations, he said angrily, and he knew perfectly well who had written it. He then named a Fleet Street hack who had nothing to do with it.”

Hislop adds that Assange went on to claim that Private Eye was “part of a conspiracy led by the Guardian which included journalist David Leigh, editor Alan Rusbridger and John Kampfner from Index on Censorship – all of whom ‘are Jewish'”.

“I pointed out that Rusbridger is not actually Jewish, but Assange insisted that he was ‘sort of Jewish’ because he was related to David Leigh (they are brothers-in-law),” writes Hislop.

“When I doubted whether his Jewish conspiracy would stand up against the facts, Assange suddenly conceded the point. ‘Forget the Jewish thing’.”

More at:

http://www.israellycool.com/2016/07/24/wikileaks-jew-hatred/

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Response to Mosby (Reply #76)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 03:19 PM

msanthrope (37,549 posts)

86. Thread on Israel Shamir....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028042165

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:04 PM

revmclaren (2,002 posts)

79. K & R for continuing exposure.

Masks are falling off all over during this election.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:35 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

81. Spin off: Gen Michael Flynn retweeted an anti-Semitic tweet from a wikileaks fan.

Trump ally Michael Flynn sorry for retweet of antisemitic message
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2284823

Content of tweet he retweeted:

"CNN implicated. ‘The USSR is to blame!’ Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:43 PM

MrModerate (9,753 posts)

83. I suspect he was referring to presumed hipsters . . .

Who have recently adopted the (((echoes))) usage in solidarity with those who were being abused by its use. A sort of digital "I am Spartacus" moment.

Or am I reading too little into Assange's remark?

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Response to MrModerate (Reply #83)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 03:06 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

85. Sorry, doesn't explain away the use of 'Tribalists'

This is a link to David Duke's website.

Jewish Tribalism, Jewish Racism, Israel and Zionism: Dr. David Duke Responds to a Christian Anti-Zionist
http://davidduke.com/jewish-tribalism-jewish-racism-israel-zionism-dr-david-duke-responds-christian-anti-zionist/

I certainly don't want to send site traffic to that White Supremacist's ranting. I just want to point out that 'Tribalism' is another loaded term used by anti-Semites.

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Response to emulatorloo (Reply #85)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 06:36 PM

OilemFirchen (6,960 posts)

89. Yes. I am an M.O.T.

"Member of the Tribe".

Kinda tough to pin that one on hipsters.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 07:53 PM

Scurrilous (38,676 posts)

90. Kick

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 08:07 PM

Dawson Leery (19,338 posts)

91. Wikileaks: Hitler approved.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:25 AM

R B Garr (16,705 posts)

93. What a great thread!

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:44 AM

Behind the Aegis (52,650 posts)

94. Interesting thread.

I especially like the 'excuse' of "I haven't seen this, so..." and "oh this is another anti-Semitic dog-whistle" being used by those who have used them themselves. Mindboggling!

When the "attacker" is right-wing, or disliked for one reason or another, then suddenly all these "experts" on anti-Semitism emerge, but when other instances happen, those of us who actually do have some expertise in the field, are shouted down as "playing the anti-Semitism card (sometimes the 'Holocaust card')".

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 09:51 AM

Hestia (3,818 posts)

103. Exactly. Doesn't this all seem a bit too manufactured?

Didn't know Putin had co-opted Wikileaks, which is a shame. If he tweets from their account all the time (and he is not above it at all), could it have not been Putin who posted the anti tweets using Assange's account?

If you are going to play the game, you need to understand the nuance.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:48 AM

Helen Borg (3,963 posts)

106. Why all this sudden vitriol against WikiLeaks and Assange?

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:51 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

110. Because majority of DU'ers push back on those who use white-supremacist dog-whistles like

"Tribalist" and use coded-antisemitic neo-Nazi symbols to claim Jews are conspiring against him.

There's always been vitriol on DU towards those who tweet anti-Semitic memes.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:42 PM

Helen Borg (3,963 posts)

119. Righto...

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:49 AM

liberalmike27 (2,474 posts)

107. Wiki Exposes Hillary's crooked DWS

And suddenly he's anti-semitic and a rapist, without a trial on either.

I'm just amazed that anyone falls for this.

Glad Sanders voters were vindicated--we knew she was cheating all along, and we knew the media was putting narratives in place to help defer the focus on the cheating, and make it look like Sanders campaign problems, instead of corruption at the highest level of the DNC.

And then Hillary embraces it, embraces the corruption by appointing her to the campaign.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:53 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

111. liberalmike exposes his tolerance for neo-Nazi and white-supremacist code words

Tribalist/Tribalism

Jewish Tribalism, Jewish Racism, Israel and Zionism: Dr. David Duke Responds to a Christian Anti-Zionist
http://davidduke.com/jewish-tribalism-jewish-racism-israel-zionism-dr-david-duke-responds-christian-anti-zionist/

Three brackets:

Why are there triple brackets around names on social media?
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

"an anti-Semitic Google plugin which was deleted from the Google store this month. “Coincidence Detector” would search web pages for names that it identified as Jewish and add three brackets to either side of their names.

The extension’s users would then organise online attacks against those highlighted by the plugin. Jonathan Weisman, a journalist at the New York Times, was the target of one such attack and wrote a piece about the harassment in which he said “much of it [came] from self-identified Donald J Trump supporters”.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:00 PM

avaistheone1 (14,626 posts)

113. Sorry, but I read the David Duke link and I see no connection to Assange at all.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:08 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

114. So Wikileaks tweet did not use the code-word "Tribalist" in his tweet?

Very difficult to explain that neo-Nazi code word for Jews away.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:12 PM

avaistheone1 (14,626 posts)

116. Tribalist has several different connotations,

so does the use of brackets.

I think you are nitpicking. This attack is nonsensical at best.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:15 PM

emulatorloo (43,194 posts)

117. Enlighten me on the positive uses of these neo-Nazi code words.

I think you are in denial. Your defense of obvious anti-Semitic memes and tropes is naive at best.

I do want to note that I stand corrected on source of tweets. May not be Assange himself but an underling.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:43 PM

leftynyc (26,060 posts)

130. No - the use of 3 brackets

is well known as belonging to nazis who want to identify Jews. Feel free to defend the anti semitic repulsive twit assange all you like but you don't get to make up your own facts.

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Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:31 AM

liberalmike27 (2,474 posts)

135. Why Thank You

Anyone running afoul of the MIC, the DHS, or the security state, seems to be immediately labeled a sexual predator.

And no, I don't think the guy hates Jewish people--he's probably not keen about those who disagree with him, or demonize him in the media, but that's incidental to the issue.

I've found you either like being informed about the untoward things going on, or you want it all hidden away, particularly when it makes your corporate candidate look bad. It's tragic Hillary supporters can't accept the wrong that was done, and continue to try to use some kind of kitty toy or the other, to distract. Nope. Not working, and it only makes you look worse, here at the HU. (Hillary Underground)

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Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:33 AM

leftynyc (26,060 posts)

136. Yawwwwwnnnnnn

Defending this misogynist, anti semitic asshole who is hell bent on getting don the con elected. How charming.

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:10 PM

Blue_Tires (55,445 posts)

115. FWIW, some teenaged little shit usually mans the official wikileaks twitter

and believe it or not he/she has said much more extreme/outrageous stuff than this, but it flies below the radar...

I'd post some of the juicier examples, but those cowards blocked me long ago...

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Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:18 PM

Blue_Tires (55,445 posts)

118. Wikileaks RTs one of our old favorites:

:large

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 03:22 AM

avaistheone1 (14,626 posts)

120. After reading the various links in the postings on this thread, I must say this this thread is

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much adieu about absolutely nothing.

Evidently this is a mean-spirited effort to throw mud at Julian Assange with no real evidence. Moreover the know-nothing bully DU echo chamber on this thread is toxic...shame on you!!

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 05:13 AM

Hissyspit (45,788 posts)

122. Yup:

From a Facebook poster:

"The tweet is really easy to misinterpret if you don't spend an inordinate amount of time on Twitter. There's a certain clique of sycophantic journalists who only suck up to politicians lest they lose access (so naturally, they hate Wikileaks for making life so difficult for their benefactors). Many of them have taken to co-opting a neo-Nazi signifier in their handle as a weird show of solidarity. Wikileaks was merely pointing out that by them doing this, the imagery now is more closely related to self-identification in their clique (most who are not Jewish) than the original meaning."

Clumsily done and ill-advised on Wikileaks part, for sure. Assange (apparently) walked into it, as can be seen in the lack of context (an important missing Tweet, for one thing) in the OP.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:16 AM

Blue_Tires (55,445 posts)

121. Another classic: The "Jewish Pro-Censorship Lobby"

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 02:13 PM

Behind the Aegis (52,650 posts)

124. I doubt he cares.

It is obvious some will do anything, and I mean anything, to deny anti-Semitism. So, when something like this comes along, it is no surprise those who rush to say "NO! This is not anti-Semitism!" It may not be "the big picture" but it is certainly part of the canvas. Anti-Semitism is one of those bigotries many have no real issue with and therefore, are selective in their outrage and condemnation.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:33 PM

leftynyc (26,060 posts)

128. Not the first time

he's let his anti semitism get the better of him. The man is repulsive.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/03/is_julian_assange_an_anti-semi.html

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:55 PM

Agnosticsherbet (11,619 posts)

131. People are putting ((( echoes ))) around their names on Twitter – here’s why

People are putting ((( echoes ))) around their names on Twitter – here’s why
If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you’ve probably noticed people with brackets around their name.
If not, it basically looks like this: ((( Ashitha Nagesh )))
There’s a reason for this – and it’s not immediately obvious.
People are adding the brackets – known as ‘echoes’ – to their names as part of an online anti-racist movement.

Why brackets?
For a while, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites – groups largely now part of the disturbing ‘alt-right’ movement – have been putting three sets of brackets around Jewish people’s surnames on Twitter.
The brackets worked like a dog whistle – other neo-Nazi followers would see it, and send that person a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse. It essentially put a virtual target on Jewish people’s heads.

I am not surprised to learn Julian Assange is a racists anti-semite.

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Fri Jul 29, 2016, 04:50 PM

awoke_in_2003 (34,582 posts)

137. I used to be on the fence about this guy...

fuck this guy.

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Sat Jul 30, 2016, 01:33 PM

FairWinds (1,717 posts)

144. I'm not buying this . .

can't you folks deal with Assange's actual ideas and
actions instead of engaging in character assassination?

If we had had MORE LEAKS in 2002-03 perhaps that
catastrophic war could have been avoided.

And why pick on Assange while giving Petraeus, Clapper,
Libby, Armitage, etc. a TOTALLY FREE PASS.

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Sun Jul 31, 2016, 08:48 PM

msanthrope (37,549 posts)