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In reply to the discussion: So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)13. Only if that is what is desired.
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So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
OP
+2. That's the problem, he's a "DU Hero", so now they have to try & defend the indefensible.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2012
#185
Between weed and copyright violations, I have a really hard time believing most DUers give
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#71
You mean people here are insufficiently enthusiastic about imprisoning pot smokers?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#153
Do you think the State of Texas was right when it was throwing gay ppl. in jail for consensual sex?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#163
Of course I am unwilling to acknowledge an objective distinction between laws.
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#214
Many people here, especially from the U.S. confuse U.S. and Swedish law.
Agnosticsherbet
Aug 2012
#194
"When people say, he has not been charged, they seem to use this..."
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#198
How blind do you have to be not to see the similarity in people's defenses of the two?
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#3
You, and Rush: "Limbaugh: Liberals Would “Help A Thousand Rapists” To Free “One America-Hater”"
Zorra
Aug 2012
#22
My pleasure, KoKo. I'm so tired of the constant posting of anti-Progressive RW talking points at DU.
Zorra
Aug 2012
#28
You nailed it, Zorra. I saw the name of post and knew before I read it what it would say.
October
Aug 2012
#81
Holder speaks for the existing power structure, as would the director of the CIA.
ronnie624
Aug 2012
#55
If someone was setting him up, wouldn't they have given the women much better stories?
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#16
So if he had not done these things and it was just some bloke who'd happened to get to London
treestar
Aug 2012
#62
Your're claiming 2 established female progressives are really paid whores for the PTB?
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#103
You claim they are deliberately telling stories they know to be false to discredit Assange
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#109
Bullshit. Plenty of people LOUDLY proclaim Obama has assassinated American citizens
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#74
Tiresome, disingenuous and a repetitive slam to DUers who read the situation differently than you
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#99
Clarified in 118, I meant to say Americans and non-Americans but if you'd like I'll go make an edit
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#126
"She". And thank you, yes, it was a general reference both to extra judicial assassinations of both
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#118
No. If you disagree with the reason, it's an "excuse"; if you agree, it's an "explanation", because
patrice
Aug 2012
#176
Except that the two issues have only very superficial similarities and your post is a uber strawman.
redgreenandblue
Aug 2012
#19
But those making excuses for Assange have non interest in discerning if a rape has been committed
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#37
Everytime you complain about my characterizing your argument as an appeal to shadow governments
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#225
Could you post a source, or did you just make up the "pursuant to prosecution" part
Zorra
Aug 2012
#170
OMG! It's like a Monte Python skit. He's not charged, and Sweden is not really prosecuting him,
Zorra
Aug 2012
#181
I know, but they said he did it. Slip of the tongue, or is someone presumed guilty before being
Zorra
Aug 2012
#186
Whether such a case exists or whether a trial will result in conviction is not at issue.
Spider Jerusalem
Aug 2012
#221
That context was examined and found to still constitute grounds for a charge of rape...
Spider Jerusalem
Aug 2012
#234
Since we have closed Gitmo and left Afghanistan, what else can we argue about?
AngryAmish
Aug 2012
#50
Yes, we are all appalled when charges of misdemeanors are turned into charges
sabrina 1
Aug 2012
#94
I appreciate your attempt to marginalize complex scenarios by oversimplifying them
LaydeeBug
Aug 2012
#102
Trying to read everything coming out...and parsing betwen the two or three sides..
KoKo
Aug 2012
#139
My enlisted 19 year old niece was raped by a US soldier while stationed in Germany.
cr8tvlde
Aug 2012
#142
Liberate us sexually so they won't have it available to divide and distract us.
Fire Walk With Me
Aug 2012
#145