The real smart drug dealers just do literally anything else other than deal drugs.

the average drug dealer makes $25k pa, even if their boss earns 3x that, you can earn more getting a PMP or L6S certification and working in procurement legitimately.

I appreciate the sentiment but its irrelevant. We’re allowed to make theatre about sex.

Freest country in the world my bunghole.

paragraph 4 in the article states how they corrected for this.

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crazy how they had fireworks and let him be nude at the trial

I am commenting this from a terrible strip club with friends who dragged me here. I wish I was in your position.

it’s not just facts. If Trump suddenly only said things that were true between now and polling day - but didnt change any of his policy positions- would you vote for him?

the company who just appointed the guy who ruined Google search as their CEO might be shady, say it isn’t so!

Risk, yes, but we know now that no one was hurt. It’s very different when you know what the consequences are.

Agreed in principle but it’s been nigh on 20 years and we’re yet to find someone that was killed as an upshot of the leak.

If you have information to the contrary I’d be keen to hear it.

Yes but you’re saying “it’s a big crime because the people who stand to benefit from it being a big crime say it’s a big crime.”

While I’m not saying all and any espionage/treason is good, I’m asking why one would think these memoranda are worth more than human life?

Were they? Would the world be better off with Assange dead?

it was a deliberate understatement for comic effect.

Still, though, 12 years is only considered proportionate because the the government sets the law and the government was embarrassed.

Its not a complete defence of Assange, his behaviors, his sketchy connections to Russia - but it is me saying that whistle-blowers are disproportionately punished not because it’s in the public interest

12 years in prison is more than you get for killing a child while drunk driving

The man embarrassed the US by leaking their DMs.

first one isn’t free

second one you have to migrate posts using ctrl+c ctrl+v and then hand type the publish date

third one you have to already have built your own SQL database

Started immigration paperwork in nov 2016, final move date April 2018, got green card Dec 2018.

It is dumb, but also I see that the line of doctors, lawyers, officials, bureaucrats all have a job to do and so are probably just trying to do something, in a job that likely has a lot of pressure to find reasons to turn down applications - both from internal factors and societal.

As someone who emigrated to marry an American - this judgement is in line with my experience. The process was long, difficult, often in jeopardy (I almost couldn’t get on the plane because in the week before I left for the US they were quibbling whether my use of antidepressants for a year which ended 6 years prior counted as disqualification criteria on public health grounds).

Then, the visa is strictly, only to fly to the US and get married, it doesn’t cover staying in the US or working in the US, those are separate processes.

I emigrated in my early 30s as a white, professional male born and raised in England.

I mean it’s true here.

it wasn’t, though.

Perhaps if you could name the site, the protestes, the cause and the method we could go “Yeah that would be much/slightly better/worse” but I don’t think we’d get much more out of it than that.

alright you got me

bastards doesn’t even begin to cover it any more. I don’t think there is word bad enough - even cunts - to adequate describe their bullshit.