Coombs wrote:
In case you're not aware, NSM = National Socialist Movement, ANA = Aryan Nationalist Alliance, and WLM = White Lives Matter.
Counter-protest is incoming...
These clashes between neo-Nazi "patriots" and antiracists are ongoing in Australia as well, and have been for some time. 🙁
On WikiLeaks and Putin, I'd say the following:
Assange is a self-serving douchebag, and in addition to any connection to Russian hackers, one should also survey his connections to the US libertarian right (which is pro-Trump for the most part).
The "transparency" movement's flaws are thrown into sharp relief by the obvious and asymmetric circulation of information back to the preferences of power—the movement's ideology rests on the spurious premise that all information relevant to collective interest can be exposed and processed simultaneously and justly.
The increasing chatter about Putin (and China, for that matter, cf articles about the South China Sea and so on) invoking a new multipolar geopolitics are from any perspective a form of false consciousness that ignores the steadily decreasing role of nations as the guarantors of collective interest.
Both the DNC leak showing a "conspiracy" against Sanders and the response of "Look! Russkie hackers though!" are pure spectacle
