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Alexei Navalny vs. Julian Assange: America's Selective Outrage
from Leave It Online | The Tim Dillon Show #382 · #382
12 min
Tim sarcastically frames Navalny's death as a Big Brother Russia storyline, then contrasts the media's outrage over Navalny with the near-total silence about Julian Assange's imprisonment, detailing what Wikileaks actually exposed and mocking pundits like Bari Weiss and Sam Harris for their moral clarity.
- Tim introduces Alexei Navalny as a reality TV star and Big Brother cast member before admitting the joke and explaining he was actually an opposition leader in Russia.
- Navalny was poisoned, and his widow Julia vows to continue his work while America expresses outrage at the treatment of a political prisoner.
- Tim claims the United States would never punish someone for leaking uncomfortable things about the government, establishing the premise he'll undermine.
- Barry Weiss and Sam Harris worry about moral confusion between good and bad guys, but Tim insists he knows the difference perfectly.
- Navalny exposed corruption by flying drones over oligarchs' mansions and Putin's Palace, doing in Russia what Americans do with the reality show Selling Sunset.
- Julian Assange has been destroyed mentally and physically for the last decade while nobody talks about it, unlike the flood of posts about Navalny.
- Assange was charged under a revived 100-year-old Espionage Act, held in high-security prison since 2019 after years in the Ecuadorian Embassy, with family and journalists reporting his visible deterioration.
- Tim distinguishes Navalny as a freedom fighter deserving punishment for those responsible, while calling Assange's leak of government secrets 'just a problem.'
- Anyone fighting for freedom in Russia is automatically a hero to Tim, whereas leaking CIA activities is presented as inherently problematic.
- Tim celebrates living in a country with moral clarity, thanking Barry Weiss and Sam Harris for their guidance while remaining oblivious to the contradiction.
Alexei NavalnyJulian AssangeWikiLeaksCIAHillary ClintonBari WeissChelsea ManningGuantanamo BaySelling SunsetSam HarrisDmitry MedvedevVladimir PutinChris HedgesCaitlyn JennerMichael Hastings