• unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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              yeah. no that’s whistleblowers. you ever notice how every major whistleblower gets hit with a child porn charge? It’s like a label that reads “the government doesn’t think you should talk about this guy”. Nothing more than character assassination by our government. Ridiculous to suggest that someone used to being that furtive about something so shameful would also just want the world to know the truth.

              those two things don’t fit together, and yet it keeps happening. weird

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                I have not noticed this. Some of the most high-profile ones, recently Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Reality Winner have not even received allegations, to my knowledge. Nor historically, with Daniel Ellsberg or Mark “Deep Throat” Felt. The only instance I can think of is Julian Assange’s rape charges, which seemed to have merit.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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          Or people with morbid curiousity like me who hop on to see the dumpster fire occasionally. Can’t say I recommend it.

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            Damn, I thought it was a requirement to shit post on Twitter while you’re shitty code compiles. How am I supposed to become a real programmer now? I guess I still got mastodon.

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      He kept the 70% he wanted, it’ll be a propaganda engine and communications platform for the right wing.

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        Whatever wing willing to pay, honestly.

        EDIT: I rarely see the voting system of lemmy for a reason. I find it cute, this reaction to the mere comparison between so-called “wings” in the American political system. Both, republicans and democrats, are two sides of the same coin.

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          Strategic alignment. Getting his taxes cut counts. Of course, could be some deeper conspiracy. I’m not so anto- conspiracy that I don’t think people aren’t making grand plans to install trump.

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      8 months ago

      I have a lot of friends that won’t quit because of sports updates and all the shitposts

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      8 months ago

      This is in addition to the first year of losses, which are likely higher.

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      There are a lot of quasi-celebrity types with a big following that don’t want to give up their follower base.

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      I’ll bet it’s more than 30% left but bots backfilled the space.