Oddbean new post about login | logout HRF has a founding mission to focus on authoritarian regimes. They don’t consider the USA to be an authoritarian regime. I have my own personal views and will keep speaking up for what I think is important. Personally I think Julian’s case is one of the most important ones of our age. But I work at HRF because most people on earth (72% or more) live under authoritarian regimes and there is very little attention or resources paid to most of their struggles. Probably less than $2M annually for example for Chinese human rights work. It’s a good thing to do to try and help where we can. When I gave my speech about Assange I made sure to wear a Free Navalny pin to underline this point. Everything is connected.
So we're still not talking about it. cool cool. thanks for clarifying where your organization stands on protecting opposition leaders comparing muslims to cockroaches and making promotional videos of shooting them though. priorities, i guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blsyFzpqDI
I’ll talk about it all day if you want. I am very glad Assange is free. I am very sad Navalny died in a Siberian detention center.