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If he comes back to australia and gets into politics, Im nervous hell unite a lot of the worst people and be some third way fascist, his fathers a chud whos been given a lot of attention about all of this, while also not hesitating to participate in panel discussions with fascists
the whole thing makes me sick to my stomach, there are so many people unjustly held in prison and this guys all a lot of people seem to care about
Assange might not be a good person but that is not the point, he did something objectively good by reporting on US war crimes and that is why he is being persecuted by the evil empire. We want reports like these to be made in the future as well and the release of Assange is a good thing as it somewhat detracts from the chilling effect the brutal treatment he has received has had on journalists.
He should still be ruthlessly denounced for any form of reactionary thought but the evil empire backing down from their persecution of him is good. It shows that they are afraid they can't even win in their own courts.
He wasn’t raised by his father. Actually he spent part of his childhood in an infamous child abusing cult, so it’s really not fair to associate his family with his character.
He isn’t a fascist. The combination of the (likely politically motivated) rape allegations and leaking of Clinton’s emails meant he was abandoned by the left, so that his support base consists of crackpots, libertarians and PMC radlib types united only by free speech brainworms. Whenever I’ve heard Julian speak he’s sounded fundamentally left wing to me, albeit not in a Marxist sense obviously.
I doubt he’ll involve himself in electoral politics. Apart from likely being extremely burnt out an d traumatised, he already tried to start a Wikileaks party in Australia years ago and it never really went anywhere.
As for the allegations against him, (which is the only meaningful criticism against him that can be made), it’s worth bearing in mind that he always said he would willingly go to Sweden to fight them in court, so long as he received assurance that he wouldn’t be extradited to the US. An assurance Sweden always refused to give.