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▲ beejiu 2 hours ago

Did we forget about Snowden?

▲nicce an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Everyone knows Snowden so I guess it was quite big scandal

▲DANmode an hour ago | parent [-]

Everyone knows Snowden was a bad boy who got himself into trouble.

That’s as much as your mom knows.

▲ARandomerDude an hour ago | parent [-]

Circles probably matter. I am actively in communication with several hundred people of all ages outside of tech. I have never heard anyone say anything except: (1) positive of Snowden, and (2) negative of the NSA.

▲DANmode an hour ago | parent [-]

> Circles probably matter.

Yes.

▲EA-3167 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

And Gitmo, lies leading to invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, all of the times we whoopsies a JDAM into a school or wedding…

But yeah the country under an eternal international microscope is the one “getting away with it.”

▲mcmcmc 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

US gets away with it because no one can challenge their military might, Israel gets away with it because any criticism of the state is “anti-Semitic”. Not the same thing