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by 93po 1187 days ago
The entire "had sex with a broken condom" saga is ridiculous and built up to be an Assange smear campaign. Neither women went to the police to report a rape, they only wanted him to get tested for STDs, neither wanted charges pressed against Assange, and they both later retracted their stories.

If Assange did what was alleged, then that's awful and horrible and abusive and those women are victims. However the entirety of the reporting around this is wildly biased and dishonest and clearly manufactured to get him extradited, which worked.

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>and they both later retracted their stories

Did they? Just a few 2-3 years ago there was a documentary in Sweden and one of the women was interviewed extensivley.

As long as we remember both things can be true at once.
And as long as we remember the likelihood/probability of things happening given the context.
Yes