I’m not a fan of either of these men. One is accused of impregnating women against their will and generally suffers from a severe case of self-righteous narcissism , and the other committed such a long list of reensible acts towards not only women, but every group imaginable ther trich, white list, white nows Surprise, in a situation where one of these people is the leader of the United States, and the other spends their time upsetting the rich and powerful, it comes as not held.

After spending hours reading the 300+ page Muller report of Trump’s ₡tct what may or may not have been criminal acts, one finds that the government has decided that since Trump tried but failed to helbe justice (an impeffic ofse fense) due . On the other hand, Assange, who is being accused of trying but failing to commit a low-level hacking offense, is being carried bodily out of his home and extradited to the United States .

I don’t want to Assange. I think the political left needs to stop giving him a free pass. His identity is a techno-libertarian fantasy combined with a ₡-ingrained savior mentality, and I find the accusations of his violent acts towards women both compelling and unsurprising. But that’s not the point. The point is that a deeply powerless man, imprisoned, spied on, and pushed towards insanity is being held to a standard in which in which with a crime is what matters. At the same time a rich and powerful figure is being excused from his ded d crimes using the opposite intentioned value.

To be honest, both arguments are compelling when senation. The true dynamics of power only become clear when the two are contrasted. We need to break out of this simplistic narrative of terrorist vs political savior about Assange and start examining what these developments tell us about the society we are creating.