dirtcreature

I have several hard questions to ask. I hope you are brave enough to answer them in detail:

• Are you going to be the first to stop stigmatizing service industry jobs like nursing, electricians, plumbers, and laborers; and, instead, promote these jobs as alternatives to getting a degree? If you are supporting the Green New Deal then surely you realize that college serves no real purpose in the labor industry. Also, you surely understand that the labor industry, if the Green New Deal is enacted, will be paying for others to attend college for free.

• Student debt elimination. Who is going to pay for this and why do you believe that someone who chose college with eyes wide open deserves to have their debt eliminated? There are plenty of jobs that do not require a college education and those jobs will be paying for this debt elimination. To many of us, debt is a choice based on decision, not a disease as debt relief implies.

• In the Green New Deal, how do you propose to support industry? It is a "dirty" industry that is supported by millions of workers, everything from making the machines that build things, to supporting the thing that was built over decades. A cat D3 dozer cannot run all day long in remote locations on batteries, for example.

• Do you support damming and nuclear energy? If not, why not? An intelligent, informed person will realize that all energy creation is a zero sum game and all energy creation has risk. Damming is a very clean solution. Nuclear has low risk, high reward.

• What are you going to do about illegal immigration? You claim we are the wealthiest country, etc, etc, but we are also a sovereign country. Why abolish ICE when there is no control over illegal immigration? This topic has been spoken about by every single president for decades, yet nothing has been done.

• You are 27. Do you support term limits?

• Do you support normalizing politician's pay so that they are more in touch with the average Americans they serve? For example, Congress can receive up to 80% of their pay in pension plans, i.e. they are paid by taxpayers after retirement. Most Americans retire on stock market based retirement plans which are subject to the whims of the economy. Putting this in numbers, a Congress person receives a salary of about $174,000 a year and can retire on a $138,000 pension, paid for by tax payers. In addition, they may receive additional benefits. To many of us, this is outrageous. What are you going to do about this?

• The Federal Government is essentially a very large union. In order to manage these initiatives you will need to spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars on salaries and retirement benefits. How is this going to be paid for?

Brilliant question and thank you for pointing out the massive, hulking, most dangerous gorilla in the room. Mr. Assange, are you not an information broker? How, exactly, do you balance what you publish and what you do not publish because from an outsider's perspective, you publish what you think is important?

Very glad you made it. Just wanted to say that tats have a story sometimes you want to forget and not have to repeat every single time someone sees it? What sounds like a great idea might be annoying later on down the road - unpopular opinion, I'm sure, but just want to share it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMEE7eaaUA

I disagree with this. The reconstruction was a bonus, but no one knew of re-construction on VE day when people flooded the streets to thank the GIs. Yes, not just the US GI's, but the impression was that without the US, Europe would have been lost. They erected monuments and still celebrate battles led by US forces in many small towns across Europe.