Put Assange on the political compass

Pro tip: You can't

I dare you to defend a single place on it for him

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Your first mistake.

Left Libertarian, done.

ASSANGE IS NAZBOL

I really don't think he's anti capitalism

And Assange is beyond clearly a sort of right wing lolbertarian with obvious lowkey reactionary dogwhistles.

LOL

That's a meaningless label peddled by brainless populists.
Being critical of certain wars (US imperialism) but not of some others (Russian imperialism) doesn't qualify as being "anti-war".
Opposing an obviously corrupt politician isn't really an extraordinary ideological position.
That's just run-of-the-mill xenophobia no matter how you try to frame it.
Opposing liberal idpol while giving right-wing idpol a pass isn't being anti-idpol, that's regular cultural conservatism.
Concern about corporations breaching consumer privacy is a valid concern but it's hardly a rejection of the corporate model itself.
This is flat out wrong. In fact, he described himself as a libertarian on several occasions.
Well he doesn't oppose private property, the commodity form or the wage system.

Assange is your typical American libertarian who believes bad government corrupts good capitalism.

He's a classic liberal
So I'm guessing he scored about the center of the lower right square in the compass
maybe a bit down and to the left.

In OP I postulated that it fell short to describe political views by providing an example. That's the opposite of endorsment, really.


Yeah, probably not anti-capitalist, but sure anti-porky (inb4 the same. We are not talking theory, we are talking about his headspace).
But then also idk what I should make of pic related:

twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/904006478616551425

I'm pretty sure this is a sock puppet account. The other one is way more neutral with an "anti-establishment" populist vibe to it.

He seems to be talking about whyte genocide and how it will be caused by feminism and atheism, there's absolutely nothing anti-capitalist about that tweet, just reactionary

it's the official according to the WL tweeter

What the fuck does being "anti-porky" means if you're not an actual anti-capitalist? The personalization of systemic problems is woke-liberal-tier intellectual cancer.

Compasses are shit but if I had to I'd say slightly down and right. More of a classic liberal/ oldschool lolbert with occasional reactionary bits thrown in. I think he's done more good than bad though.

Sure, kid.

Not sure if >>>/x/ or >>>/liberalpol but either way pls go

That's a pretty inconvenient position you have there. Immigration is objectively used to offset the declining birthrate in Europe.


Go eat your hamburger.

I was typing out a rational answer then I figured it's no point since you're playing stupid. We both know the tweet's racist dogwhistling subcontext

He's a narcissistic liberal twat.

libcom.org/library/julian-assange-also-neoliberal-utopian

He has worked in several communal projects with all kinds of radicals. Also, in contrast of similar characters like Stallman, he has a decent understanding of politics.
It's just my fanfiction, but I'm willing to believe he's hiding his power levels in an effort to bait reactionaries.

Hes an anti gov "woke" liberal that can as easily fall towards fascism as towards decent left libertarianism.

He certainly intended it to be a provocative statement.
Thing is, his statement taken at face value, is factual.
Immigration will be the most important debate in the coming decade and I don't think the left can or should avoid the debate if we want to stay remotely relevant.
People care about this, and they should, it's a big deal. Dismissing the subject as racism will only serve to make us seem out of touch with reality, and it would not surprise me if that's exactly the reaction Assange wants.

You have very low standards.

He will never support socialism. He's defended capitalism time and time again.

When will this meme die?

Assange is what happens when a retarded lolbert gets stuck in the same room for years. Any worth Wiki Leaks has exists separate to Assange's idiotic view of politics.

ok you fucking retard hes a fucking lolbertarian, in other words notourguy. please kill yourself

fucking brainlet pol kid

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In theory: libertarian
In practice: communist

So Assange is a communist now? Never change, Holla Forums.

He's exposing governments, it's a leftist thing to do by default

that was easy

anarkiddies everyone

Whether he or his actions "are" leftist, he is helping us indirectly at the very least by giving us ammo.

Everything they leak is shit that plays right into establishment propaganda. Wikileaks is dead

Pic related is not wrong. You cannot have a replacement birth rate, full women's liberation, and neoliberal capitalism. Too many contradictions. You need a fairly massive welfare state that provides childcare and financial incentives so women can have full time jobs and children at the same time, or they will choose full time jobs over children, because the pressures of capital do not currently allow any proletarian to survive without (the equivalent of) a full time job.

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wikileaks is basically a partisan tool of the trump administration so they can maintain an anti-establishment image while hiring generals and finance goons.

You could put him on a 3-D compass.

libertarian:
authoritarian:

left:
right:
kandidayte hoo wun in Crie Thundar:

So, vaguely lefty social libertarian.

The part I like:

kys liberal conspiratard

That's easy. He would be on the far top right.

I think if you removed him from torture conditions and relying on anyone who will lend him support you'd find he'd settle onto a side.

Buying into the 'muh Russia hacking' conspriacy falls under BOTH imperialist apologism and Clinton apologism.

It should be a bannable offense.

He's literally just a liberal.

he's a bog standard reactionary who will lick the boots of fascists if given half a chance. kys

So he's a Posadist

Posadists are anti-everything except our space comrades and water birth, so no

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Jesus fuck, read again
And never said he was our anything just because enemy-of-enemy
Btw , no, it doesn't work like that, and aiding leftism (alegedly) is not being a leftist.

He detests corporate greed, yet defends the right to private property.
He believes in capitalism held to scrutiny.

Whether you believe this to be consistent/possible or not is not what we are talking about. He believes it, and that's what he struggles for.
There are thousands of self-contradicting ideologies, and when we talk about political aligments we are discussing what they want to achieve, not whether it's possible or not.
Eg. one could argue that the destruction of the state is detrimental to sustaining communism, yet AnComs are still the left, even if you believe it to be self-defeating.

I'll emphasize it again:
I AM TALKING ABOUT HIS HEADSPACE

Yeah, I just wanted to kickstart discussion about his ideology.
Again, there are lots of people with a flat ideology with place on the compass. In OP I just said he's not one. Still agree with your pick.


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Could this explain a lot of Holla Forums?

He's lowkey ancap. But ancaps do great things sometimes when they aren't arguing for their horrible economic system. And he appears to understand at least some flaws of capitalism

Because telling the truth is hacking.

Is Assange the true centrist.

Done. You're welcome.

Is there a /liberalpol/?

please don't lump anarchism and the failure that is leftism please

Assange is Anarcho NazBol


Just because Stallman is a cranky SocDem doesn't mean he's politically illiterate.

end yourself m8

purple square because he's a wanker.
i like a lot of what he did, but he's a wanker.

twitter.com/wikileaks/status/592490045593948161
absolutely runt tier.
(still love the cover though.)

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This what you looking for fam?

Assange is an Ancap, but he's that rare species of True Believer Ancap.

He isn't against corporations, but against their excesses, and he believes that the market will fix it if everyone has perfect knowledge. The fact that this means he would spend his entire life in a useless struggle against Western imperialism and corporate malfeasance and ultimately accomplish no more than if he were trying to organize a team of people to prevent shark attacks by draining an ocean with Dixie cups escapes him because he BELIEVES it must be possible. All he needs is a few more people, a few more cups, maybe a little bit of a larger cup. Surely he will succeed one day.