Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by nemo on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @06:19PM
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There are no known extradition orders from the Obama DoJ, and the feds have claimed they didn't want to bother with him in the Holder era. To believe he would be extradited to the US requires Assange's claimed extradition threat to have been real, but there's not only no evidence, but some evidence that suggests there never was one.
The position that there never was a sealed extradition request can be falsified with evidence of one, it's just that there currently is no evidence.
Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by stale2002 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:31PM
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Ok, but imagine an alternate universe where, if during the Holder era, there was a secret extradition order.
Would you imagine that what we are observing right now, would be any different than this hypothetical universe where a secret extradition order did indeed exist?
Is it really so hard to believe that such a hypothetical universe would almost certainly look exactly like the universe that we are in right now?
I am saying, that no matter what happened, whether there was a secret order, or not, or whether an extradition order would have been sent, the moment he stepped out of the embassy (but otherwise did not "exist" prior to him stepping out of the embassy), what was going to happen is that he was going to be extradited to the USA.
And this prediction was proven correct. And the people who disagreed with this idea, owe the world an apology, for being entirely, completely, 100% wrong.
If you disagree, you are basically holding an unfalsifiable position. Because by doing so, you are saying that no matter if he actually gets extradite, like what just happened!, you are going to ignore the actual evidence of this prediction coming true!
It seems like there is no possible evidence or situation that I could show you, which would change your mind, because your argument is always going to be "Well, the order didn't exist before... but it does now".
I can't argue with this kind of unfalsifiable position.
If someone had predicted "this person is going to be extradited to the USA, at some point in the future", then this person was correct, and if you disagree with this person, and called them a conspiracy theorist, then you were wrong.