Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

WL had an AMA on reddit earlier today, trying to do damage control AND reaching out for donations... unreal.

yeah i got a question

why are we still sharing oxygen with you

fuck you and die, Julian

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 9, 2016 11:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u kno he's not reading this board right

this isn't his email address, its a messageboard

Ya, if you want him to read that, you're going to have to email it to Hillary.

so does he get credit when people start winning election coverage Pulitzers using all the leaked info?

and the pulitzer for best coverage of spirit cooking goes to

Lol. Because fuck Fahrenthold, clearly the intercept copy-pasting emails deserve the pulitzer.

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

yall really gonna hate wikileaks after reading this

The memo articulated a three-point strategy. Point 1 called for forcing “all Republican candidates to lock themselves into extreme conservative positions that will hurt them in a general election.”

At the time, there were more than a dozen Republican presidential candidates. The “variety of candidates is a positive here,” the Clinton campaign said.

“Many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right,” the memo noted.

“In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more ‘Pied Piper’ candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party,” the Clinton campaign wrote.

As examples of these “pied piper” candidates, the memo named Donald Trump — as well as Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson).

Oh, I've been shaking my head for a while at this. You realize this is absolute bullshit, right, Adam? And you realize the reason for this, right? That a memo from april 2015 doesn't prove anything about autumn 2015, right? You do get how time works, right? You're not to dumb to get how time works, right?

Oh, and then there are all the details, how it doesn't say what Ben Norton says. But, like, a pretty easy one should be that april 2015 wasn't actually during the primary campaign, and time doesn't work like that.

Frederik is a timelord; listen

those emails are old news but also even when they Leaked it was old news, because the clinton campaign obviously considered trump's primary performance a best-case scenario for themselves regardless of how much ratfucking they actually did (i don't think they needed, at least, to do any). this makes them idiots who will go down in history forever as idiots, but there's lots of those.

Trump also constantly talked up Bernie Sanders. Every candidate ever wants the most extreme candidate for the other side. That's normal. Anyone surprised to find an email like this is a complete idiot. Anyone who believes this email shows that the Clinton campaign 'intentionally created' Trump is an even bigger idiot, who doesn't understand how time works.

Oh, I've been shaking my head for a while at this. You realize this is absolute bullshit, right, Adam? And you realize the reason for this, right? That a memo from april 2015 doesn't prove anything about autumn 2015, right? You do get how time works, right? You're not to dumb to get how time works, right?

Oh, and then there are all the details, how it doesn't say what Ben Norton says. But, like, a pretty easy one should be that april 2015 wasn't actually during the primary campaign, and time doesn't work like that.

― Frederik B, Friday, November 11, 2016 5:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so i checked about how time works and april sounds like its before autumn right, so it was a plan for a thing before the thing, which sounds like time is running, uh, forwards?

that's the right way for time to run right, idk, i get mixed up

this is good discussion, this is helpful, thanks

Actually, april is both before and after autumn, because the earth moves around the sun. And april is different from autumn, there are no days in april which are also in autumn, so documents from april doesn't prove what happened in autumn. Trust me on this, I've got a degree in history, ie. I am in fact a timelord.

april is autumn in the southern hemisphere, makes u think

Oh, okay. So it's like, the Clinton campaign was actually directed from Chile or something? Is this another one of Naomi Klein's theories?

Actually, april is both before and after autumn, because the earth moves around the sun. And april is different from autumn, there are no days in april which are also in autumn, so documents from april doesn't prove what happened in autumn. Trust me on this, I've got a degree in history, ie. I am in fact a timelord.

― Frederik B, Friday, November 11, 2016 11:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is wrong with you

http://www.amfibi.directory/us/233758/image.jpg

those emails are old news but also even when they Leaked it was old news, because the clinton campaign obviously considered trump's primary performance a best-case scenario for themselves regardless of how much ratfucking they actually did (i don't think they needed, at least, to do any). this makes them idiots who will go down in history forever as idiots, but there's lots of those.

well yeah it doesn't need to be a conspiracy. it's a mundane reality. they were friends w him for 20 years (?) before this, Bill & him golfing buddies, no doubt they knew what buttons to push and how.

lol assange did an interview w/ sean hannity. "i believe every word he says" said hannity

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817322050297745408

lol

why have the rest of wikileaks, if there is anyone else, not tossed assange out the door as spokesman

dude is the worst public face of an organization

wikileaks is about assange it is not about "radical transparency"

lol when ppl want u sacked from being head of your own personality cult

https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817431533183238144

Fuck these bros and anybody who doesn't realize that they are total scum

otm

the best thing they're doing right now is if somebody says "assange is a scumbag" they tweet a link to the "free julian assange" website so they can learn the REAL truth

Ethan Lawrence ‏@EthanDLawrence 3h3 hours ago

@WLTaskForce I think this plan is creepy, I think you're creepy and I hope someone breaks into your house and rearranges your sofa cushions.

http://bigstory.ap.org/4112d8fe79ec4cae8391359973382ac7

Gah:

http://www.factmag.com/2017/04/25/pj-harvey-justice-for-julian-assange-event/

Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Laibach, Chomsky, Roy, etc, lining up for this.

Oh, PJpaws.

So it was held last year but were hearing about it only now, despite "the event held simultaneous live-streamed talks and workshops in 14 cities in total, also including New York, Madrid and Bucharest"?

my pal KF on the new Poitras doc about Assange:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/risk

First Hillary, now Marine. It's 2017 and the patriarchy's grip is as strong as ever.

— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) May 9, 2017

Just wait until 8 June, Julian.

the disengenious fuck.

RedState (RedState!) is like "oh come the fuck on": http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/05/09/chivalry-wikileaks-assange-rushes-to-defend-frances-le-pen-hillary-clinton/

https://www.rt.com/usa/387844-comey-assange-snowden-wikileaks/

I would like to funnel all of my future shits into whichever basement room he tweeted that from

c/f star trek poop poll thread

Sorry in advance for being obtuse. I'll admit to not really paying attention to almost anything Wikileaks-related. It's just every time I try to sort this stuff out for myself, next thing I know my chin's on my chest. It is that boring to me. When I read news reports that cover their latest leaks or whatever, there never seems to be any material that shocks or interests me, other than a general "these leaks could compromise agents in the field".

Did anything actually important come out of the Stratfor, DNC, Vault 7, etc., beyond just fucking with the US government? And can someone give me some sort of tldr timeline of how they slid from "this might be the next pentagon papers" to "oh, fuck this guy". Was it just last year with the anti-Hillary stuff when he turned, or was there some shift before that?

Not sure about before but their twitter feed definitely started to show sighs of a merger with alt-right pov concurrent with the anti-HRC leaks (which were deliberately contextually misleading in a lot of cases)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-officially-lost-moral-high-ground/amp/

Some breakdown on the vault 7 stuff. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/23/wikileaks-permadrip-other-vault-7-documents/
The entire purpose of those dumps seemed intended to provide the illusion of back up to Trump's tweets about Obama spying on him.

Sweden drops charges: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39973864

Statute of limitations ran out?

Oh n/m I RTFA'd

British news still not sure how to pronounce his name, Assonzhe is winning out at the moment, as French as possible too.

First Rolf Harris now Zhulianne Assonzhe, any more Aussie sex criminals to be released in the UK?