• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    It wasn’t just US assets that were uncovered in the leak.

    The Chinese were able to decrypt much of it causing nations other than the USA to need to evacuate personnel for safety reasons.

    Your feelings are one thing, seeing the USA with egg on its face always gets folks happy, rah rah USA bad we get it. That doesn’t change what happened.

    Snowden isn’t the villain he is made out to be by the USA but goddamn did he do a stupid thing in a dumb way and isn’t the hero folks who like to see the USA fail make him out to be.

    Chances are people in your country who work to keep you safe had their lives put at risk because of how he leaked what he leaked. Good still came out of it. It can be both.

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      9 months ago

      Chances are people in your country who work to keep you safe

      appeal to emotion

      but goddamn did he do a stupid thing in a dumb way and isn’t the hero folks who like to see the USA fail make him out to be.

      speculation. do be careful speaking as if you’re the adult in the room with absolutely nothing to show that you deserve this respect.

      and provide links please, i find your argument spurious so let’s dispense with the pleasantry

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        9 months ago

        Christ on a stick get your logical fallacy bullshit out of a casual conversation we’re having online.

        If you need a source for my opinion then it’s me.

        If you need a source for the things I’m asserting then I’d honestly say go to Wikipedia because it’s probably the best resource for info that’s reviewed and has a trail. Beyond that I would wager you’d find issue with anything that corroborates what I assert.

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      9 months ago

      That’s subjectively bad for the personnel and subjectively good for China. I’m not saying it was subjectively good for countries like Canada or Germany, but someone did benefit.