• Jamie@jamie.moe
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    1 year ago

    Can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to be Edward Snowden, give up a lucrative future in government work to do the right thing and put the word out, be hunted for the rest of your life by Uncle Sam. The collective response to your sacrifice was a big fat “meh”

      • Hubi@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        This is an increasingly unpopular opinion on reddit from what I’ve seen. Glad the sane people switched sites.

        • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          It almost seems like it’s a propaganda to discredit him and people who act like him or believe in what he said. To move the conversation away from what illegal shit the 3 letter agencies do and what they want to do.

    • kenbw2@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If his objective was to inform people, he at least succeeded with me

      I do my best to avoid things that were exposed, and it confirms not to trust our “safeguards”