• manxu@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him, but I also think the public deserved to know what Snowden revealed. It’s definitely the kind of thing the pardon power was created for, not for drug lords to bribe their way back into freedom.

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      10 hours ago

      The american public are just overworked sheep… the proof they did not deserve this info, is in that they got it and literally did nothing about it.

      To this day poeple won’t stop using Meta and Twitter and there are 29 extra reasons to never touch those platforms again

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        4 hours ago

        ugh my wife wanted to show me something and it was on x. im like why aren’t you using xcancel like we have discussed before. how do I do that. like I said before just add cancel after x. Im sure down the line she is going to show me something from x. sigh.

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          4 hours ago

          and this is why the gov doesn’t spy on its ciizens anymore and everyone lived happily ever after… my sweet summer child

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            I’m responding to the claim that Americans did nothing. It might be the case that there is illegal government surveillance going on today, but there is no evidence for that in any leaks, particularly not Snowden’s. If there is illegal government surveillance that we learn about later, the takeaway from the Snowden saga is that Americans will take action to shut it down.

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      12 hours ago

      I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him

      Because he exposed the state for being a massively illegal and corrupt pile of shit directly perpetrating crimes against not just the American public, but the world at large?

      Like yeah, I understand why cartels kill informants, that doesn’t make them justified in doing so.