• Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    And then blamed for ruining the 2016 American election.

    Snowden showed the government was spying, had to flee, deemed a terrorist. Assange showed the government disobeys the laws it enforces on everyone else, deemed a terrorist. Manning showed that war crimes are constant, deemed a terrorist, subjected to inhumane torture.

    Every time a whistleblower exposes corruption and violations of laws in every country, they are punished. China, Russia, America, England, they’re all guilty of it.

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      Every time a whistleblower exposes corruption and violations of laws in every country, they are punished.

      Typically by being accused of acting as foreign agents. Assange was a Radical Islamist under Bush, a nefarious Russia/China double agent under Obama, and an insidious Hispanic cartel boss under Trump.

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      I don’t know why but I’ve got this strange tingling feeling it might just be a human nature group thing.