• unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            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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              8 months ago

              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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        8 months ago

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

        • nexussapphire@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          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.