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[blamebrampton]

Julian Assange RUINS EVERYTHING!

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Oh, for pity's sake, not bloody Cumberbatch again!

It is difficult to like Assange. It is easier to like Wikileaks. No one believes either the US aor the Swedish government, which is a pity for the women involved, whose veracity is being cast into doubt by the actions of governments. (No idea if Assange is guilty or not, but I can understand him taking it on the lam even if totally innocent,)

And the Cumberbatch hysteria turns me right off.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I can only assume that all other British actors were busy playing Americans, so he was delegated to be the Australian. I think he is rather talented, but there are sometimes better people for the roles they give him. He is usually pleasant to look at, though. Not here.

I was talking about this with Mr B earlier and we agreed that the thing that we don't like is that Assange has basically run roughshod over the legal rights of the women involved, because he is A Hero and they are probably Pawns in his narrative. It's certainly not only the governments involved who are putting them in a bad light.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

That's a very good description of Assange's dismissal of the women in question. Here's a Private Eye piece from last year that sums it up very nicely:

[astardanced77.livejournal.com]

Although, to be fair, Australian actors are busy singing in a French musical at the moment, so maybe they weren't available. How very imulti- national this post is!

Edited to add
Re the picture: bleurgh.