If you are only willing to speak the truth when it doesn’t cost you anything, that makes you a coward. nostr:note1dz05qa46w6eu0d8c5ayqszhrylxytqha6hv9zr47vqx6wjzdcg9qyvk9wp
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This is what a lot of good men suffer from. Myself included.
I just can’t not call out bullshit and it alienates me from many people.
But idgaf because in my core I know that if I don’t speak up, I become part of the problem.
This is meaningless unless the people who were responsible for his imprisonment are removed from power and brought to justice.
JA always described himself as a lightning rod for wikileaks. He spoke the truth but paid the price for the whole wikileaks org being journalists, and protecting their sources. It was a strange thing that many people who focussed on JA forgot completely about the journalism of wikileaks, which is more relevant today than ever. I have even heard nostr celebs who like assange disparaging wikileaks. More than the person is what he stood for, which is honest journalism : who, what, why, where, when.