On the down-low, he's a sort of British Joe Rogan in terms of bringing certain ideas into the mainstream. Except he's much funnier, taller, cleverer and hairier.
His podcast was really good before it got put behind a paywall.
a small handful of people have tried to paint them as heroes but they're much more ambivalent figures than that. 'society' in general is far warier of hero worship it seems and is content to let those three occupy an uncertain queasy middle ground. martyrs maybe, but to what?
In the 1960s there was a wave of rioting, municipal rebellion, and challenges to property in the USA. In order to see that wave from a working-class point of view I went over to England to study riots and crime. In those days the theory was that the working-class could bring an end to...
I feel like Manning is unabashedly a hero but there's been work done to keep her story of a much lower profile than the grey figures of Snowden and Assange, whose morality/intentions can be easier brought to question through a quagmire of political discourse.
She then proceeded to get tortured by the US government, ridiculous amounts of time in solitary confinement. She actually tried to commit suicide earlier this year.
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