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  • Carmakazi@piefed.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDo you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?
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    14 days ago

    Yeah. Probably had to worry about illegal snatch and grabs too. It’s just ironic that he had to turn to autocrats who use much of the same tactics he warned about.

    Of course our views on Russia in 2013 were quite different to what they are now, but we always kind of knew they were a mafia state with varying levels of dedication to “playing along” on the world stage.








  • The people who would be upset about ICE or corruption or Epstein are already upset about it. Everyone else is a collaborator or a bystander that’s varying levels of contemptible. Nobody is really going to be swayed by “distractions.”

    What I dislike most about this narrative is the idea that if we stayed locked in on Epstein or what have you, it would all be over.

    Talking about problems doesn’t inherently fix them.

    If 7 hours of 4k footage of Donald Trump raping children were aired on every major news network, what would the American people do differently from what they’re doing now? The correct answer for the vast, vast majority I think is “fuckall.” Anyone who’s paying attention can reasonably determine that Trump is a vicious sexual predator and client of trafficked women and children, but the only question that matters is “what is anyone going to do about it?”


  • It is basically the standard of US police training that when faced with any sort of resistance that could possibly conceivably cause harm to an officer, the first, second, and third options are to draw pistols and fire as many rounds as quickly as possible center mass with intent to kill.

    Just watched a different police shooting involving a kidnapper and his victim in the back seat of a car. When the car was finally stopped, the kidnapper fired his pistol at cops and the cops responded by shooting the car roughly 150 times. The kidnapper lived, the victim died. Official reports and autopsies insist that the kidnapper executed her and she was not struck by police gunfire, which is obviously very convenient for the department’s PR and legal teams.


  • As cathartic as it is to shit on him, I could also see the benefit of massive positive gaslighting in this instance.

    “Yeah, you won! I didn’t think you could pull it off, but you scored one of the biggest wins in American history! Job well done!”

    He’s a fucking lunatic and a coward that physically cannot admit wrongdoing, so let him take his obscenely fake W in the poll of public opinion and walk away from Iran, stop the slaughter, and let the adults stabilize the situation.

    You could call it enabling, sure, but I think he’s more dangerous when his ego is assaulted and challenged.