The leak was objectively not indiscriminate. She passed the material onto Wikileaks, who then coordinated with media outlets to decide what to publish and what to withhold.

I’d like to know the source for your claim that Manning’s leaks led to deaths. The only information I can find says that no deaths were caused by the leaks.

I know, I know. She didn’t go through established and legally protected whistle blower channels. Right?

Chelsea Manning gets so much more vitriol than other whistleblowers. Especially from the right. I wonder what the difference is?

Thirty-five fucking years. She really doesn’t deserve that :(

Hey, so Trump and his ilk have declared Assange a hero, surely our president-elect will pardon Manning for her great acts of heroism, right?

Mr. President,

nah

Throughout the campaign, Trump flew back to NYC nearly every single night because he can’t stand sleeping away from Trump Tower. Now he’s got to spend four years in Washington. He hates this.

As if his hands could wrap all the way around a baby’s neck.

Trump supporter: “Well, maybe he did strangle a baby but......emails!”

At this point you’d have to have footage of him strangling a baby for it to matter.

Clinton’s too. Radio silence.

Would be nice for Clinton to take a principled stand here. So far, nothing.

When i was just an innocent 12 year old mormon kid, my neighbor friends asked me if i had ever masturbated before, i said no not knowing what it was.

They explained that i just needed to get some soap for lubrication and rub my dick.

What they didn’t emphasize was they were talking about liquid soap or lotion. So that…

I’m not demanding that anyone be outraged by any particular negative thing that happens in a fictional work, and I’m certainly not saying I’m outraged by everything. I’m not sure where you got either of those things from anything I said - it’s almost like you deliberately misread my argument so you could be…

How are they not? The first linked article is entirely a criticism of fiction. That is all it is doing.

The entire argument here falls back on you trying to convince me that what happens in fiction is not real. That is not an idea I’m disputing. I’m saying just because it’s not real doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. How people are portrayed in fiction is often a reflection of how they are viewed in the real world. When…

Maybe YOU don’t, but plenty of women bond over -or at least take pleasure in - the objectifcation and devaluation of men.

Men and women all over do this in some form, but only guys feel the compulsion to document it as thoroughly as possible.