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Well you took the “critical support” option and didn’t automatically dismiss the complaints of the two women as CIA cointelpro. Way better than most Leftists and anarchists. And you acknowledge that his politics are suspect or worse.

But i’m much more critical. He models the confused/tankie notion that some nation states are good and some are bad. He embodies the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In this case US imperialism bad, Russian geopolitical manoeuvres ok. It also saddens me how in these times women and children are being thrown under the bus by the general Left and most anarchists. But hey after 10000 years of women being isolated, smeared, burned, beaten, raped, assaulted, marginalized, spoken over, held back, sold off, silenced, etc., and more recently after a century of making excuses for patriarchal Stalinist dictators, it makes sense that “ poor sexual ethics “ can be overlooked by most Leftists even for a dude whose politics are shit and who embraced his celebrity status to the max.

There is something off putting about the amount of attention and energy Assange gets when there are thousands of POC and indigenous people (and even quite a few anarchists) around the world doing time for protecting their lands and communities and fighting back against systems of power. Anarchists should make sure they aren’t overshadowed by the Assange case/Spectacle.