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Anyone know how we can help him?

It is my opinion only: Outside of overthrowing two corrupt governments there is nothing to be done. No protest will change the result.

Learned helplessness works very well. Instead consider donating to NGOs helping him.

It's not learned helplessness, there is legitimately nothing that can be done by any NGO here.

Spreading the information is much more than nothing. I actually believe it's the main thing to do here.

Sure, but no matter how much info we can push out, the MSM and other outlets will push massive amounts of contradictory info, false intel will get fabricated, and so that won't be effective to get Assange freed.

That being said, it's still worthwhile and will help build awareness of how this world really works, but it won't get Assange freed.

> No protest will change the result.

It would change the public awareness, at least. Force coverage. Start a dialog.

However, my prediction is that there will be no large-scale protest in US about this. All those who are currently LARPing "resistance" against police brutality will just ignore his case. Mark my words.

>However, my prediction is that there will be no large-scale protest in US about this. All those who are currently LARPing "resistance" against police brutality will just ignore his case. Mark my words.

Please explain how Assange is being treated more unfairly than Breonna Taylor or George Floyd?

Edit: Fixed Typo (treaty/treated)

Force coverage?

Nobody cares. If he wanted sympathy from Americans, he should have kept himself out of the last US presidential election. Democrats are going to be hostile to him and Republicans won't care because he's outlived his usefulness to them.

He isn't a journalist, never has been, and it's frankly pathetic that people have decided to retcon the guy into being one. He's a political activist who beclowned himself by aligning with foreign intelligence and they've abandoned him because, again, he isn't useful anymore.

Continue the leaks.

Not much you can do. If you're American, you could try to find which presidential candidate wants to pardon Assange and then vote for her.

This is funny. People used to recommend calling/mailing your local Congress representative and try to get them to do something about their particular concern. Now that Congress is completely partisan and just follows the top down party line, people are recommending to do one of the least effective way for a single person to effect change, electing the President, where even a single person in a swing state has a minuscule chance of affecting the outcome.

I believe they were talking about electing the third party candidate from the PSL.

Don't even know what to say about this. I'll probably vote third party but I'm not going to pretend it's going to have any effect whatsoever on what the eventual Democrat or Republican president would do about Assange.

I agree, it won't do much, I just wanted to clarify what I'm pretty sure they meant.

I was not specifically talking about the PSL. But you could pick a president by sortition of eligible citizens and practically be guaranteed a better choice than Biden or Trump.

Reportedly, Trump said he would pardon Assange if Assange gave him Hillary's emails.

The report was that he offered to pardon him in exchange for saying "who" the emails were from. They already had the emails - that's what Stone and Assange were doing together

Ok, thank you for the correction. Even better would be offering a link :-)

Mueller report, and the recent senate report/committee result which I'm not sure of the name of.

The thing with the pardon is from Assange's lawyer IIRC

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/assange-l...

... What?

You didn't offer a link for your claim; why would you ask for a link to a fact easily findable in the search engine of your choice?

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