Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet

Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by thingexplainer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:26PM (#12736744)

At the risk of sounding naive, what do the brackets and sunglassses (edit: they're just glasses) mean and how is it anti-semetic?

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by paulmd on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:31PM (#12736795)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

No idea on the glasses. Maybe a reference to the stereotypical g-man? i.e. he was trying to say that Jews control the government?

Regardless, the parentheses are pretty straightforward.

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by thingexplainer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:36PM (#12736835)

I misread the tweet, they said "black-rimmed glasses" rather than "sunglasses".

So it seems to boil down to, "It seems like most of our critics are those upwardly-mobile Jews." Another sad chapter in the descent of WikiLeaks from a journalistic organization that was a reason to hope for humanity into a the Daily Mail for the Kremlin instead of GCHQ.

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by ryanlol on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:54PM (#12736989)

>Regardless, the parentheses are pretty straightforward.

They really aren't, as the tweets hint they've recently been some sort of an anti-anti-semitism symbol, with lots of jewish people on twitter putting them around their names.

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