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Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange
First time accepted submitter Tuck News writes "A reporter for TIME Magazine sparked a Twitter war when he said that he 'can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange'. Michael Grunwald deleted his tweet after a follower argued that it would only encourage Assange supporters.Grunwald's employer distanced itself from the tweet, saying 'Michael Grunwald posted an offensive tweet from his personal Twitter account that is in no way representative of TIME's views.'"
Utter nonsense. People in the US have said that 9/12 was justified, that the US did this to itself, that the Israelis did, that Al Qaeda should be applauded and so on. They weren't so much as charged with a crime, because guess what it's not a crime to be an asshole in the US. Here's one example:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/05/ohio-muslim-leader-says-911-planned-by-americans-praises-al-qaeda-linked-yemenite-sheikh.html
If anyone else were advocating the violent death of another, it would be a crime; perhaps it's time for some standards to be applied to all - right, left, far left (journalists), far right (faux journalists at fox, etc.).
FTFY
The media in the US is by and large very conservative. The "liberal" media is a myth, the US media is anything but liberal, particularly the news media.
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SWAT team raids for petty offences
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I mean F it. Why don't we wear burkas and execute women drivers while we are at it. Shit.
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Snowden at least stands accused of treason.
Nope. He stands accused of espionage, but that's bullshit, too. Treason has a very specific definition in US law, and whistleblowing isn't making war on the United States.
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I see no issue wishing a drone strike against this traitor. Ass-ange thought it was his own justification for what he has done. In my opinion that makes him a traitor and should be either hung or shot by a firing squad then dumped in the ocean. This is what use to be done to traitors. Not some BS political trial, which is just wasting more money.
You cant be a traitor to a country you hold no allegiance to.
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The media in the US is by and large very conservative.
Ha ha haha haha ha haa ha! Damn, that was the funniest thing I've read all morning. Just FYI, the media sucks the dick of the Democratic Party!!!
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The Democratic party isn't very left wing. America's idea of left wing is what Europe considers slightly right leaning.
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The name of something does not necessarily correlate with what that something is. The Democratic Party is rather conservative by most measures in academia and comparative politics with most of the rest of the world. Sure, they're conservative in somewhat of a different way than the Republican Party is, but conservative nonetheless.
Not really hate speech. Obama has use drone strikes against individuals, so really all the tweet was doing is drawing attention to our president indiscriminately murdering individuals without a warrant or like means. The Internet would be a much better place if we had sarcasm tags. I think that was the reporters intent.
Was Grunwald also being sarcastic when he said "Fair point. I'll delete. @rober1236Jua my main problem with this is it gives Assange supporters a nice safe persecution complex to hide in"?
As I recall, Jesus was pretty specific about what you need to do to be in his good books. Roughly paraphased, it boils down to 'sell all your stuff, give the money to the poor and hit the road spreading the good news, god will look after you'. I don't see many 'christians' doing this part. I don't actually see any, personally. Conservative christians, like many religious people, pick and choose which bits are important to them (marriage seems like one of their favourites). They then criticise and judge people who don't align to their views on the matter (pretty sure Jesus also admonished that, but whatevs). ;)
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So.. many.. logical fallacies...
You've never lived or spent much time in Sweden, have you?
It's true that relations between the sexes are rather different here than most places I've been. The difference is that women here are brought up to believe that they're fully equal to men, and they're not obligated in any way to do whatever men tell them to do simply because they're women.
It might not be what you're used to (and it took me a few years to adjust to it, myself), but to dismiss it as "misandry" is a complete mischaracterisation.
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