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Can you name one? Just one?
Because even the government admits nobody died as a result of the 2013 revelations of Global Mass Surveillance. However, US courts *did* rule that they show the NSA broke the law. That reporting also won the Pulitzer Prize.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… t.co/kf0j3dag5b
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Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document.
Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus... these guys have dozens, hundreds. No jail.
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Six trillion dollars?
This is good for Bitcoin.
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You are holding Julian Assange in a dungeon for exercising the freedom of expression you so ardently claim to defend. How about decriminalizing it at home before you take to a podium and point your finger abroad? twitter.com/thehill/status…
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ok sure but hear me out:
auto-blocking, but for people with flag emoji in their username
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If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.
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You made me believe in happy endings. I love you, darlin. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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Imagine killing an aid worker. Imagine killing his family too. Imagine seven of them were actually children, smiling little tots.
Then just rising from your chair to grab a coffee and saying, "mistakes were made."
This is absolutely unforgivable. twitter.com/AP/status/1455…
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Don't mess with Greta. twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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I'm significantly more sympathetic to @elonmusk's concern about crazy people showing up at the door than the average person because, well, look at my life, but c'mon, man.
You're a public figure in a position of power in a world where even normal people are constantly tracked.
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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I've never understood the political fear of Libertarians.
"Sure, they're not in power now, but someday they might take over and... uh, leave you alone, I guess, since that's kind of their whole deal."
It's like being afraid of cats.
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Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.
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There has been one constant across twenty years of occupation: the government lying to the people. twitter.com/queeralamode/s…
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"The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." —@JoeBiden, July 2021 twitter.com/StefSimanowitz…
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Somebody sounds nervous. twitter.com/AFP/status/148…
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I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.
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Politics now ask you to define yourself by who you hate, rather than what you love.
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The White House sanctions and arrests kids for the "crime" of building privacy tools to protect you, while "regulators" were quietly palling around with the thieves who just robbed 5 million people.
The difference? The thieves were big political donors.
fortune.com/crypto/2022/11…
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There is something miserable in the figure who enjoyed in their youth the freedom of speech, but from the comfort of age seeks to deny it to others; some deformity of the soul.
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