I think calling the Ukraine phone call guy a whistleblower but not Snowden is a sick joke. They obviously both are but what Snowden uncovered was far more important and scandalous.
Seriously, he even did that Fox town hall where he said nothing was free and of course taxes would go up. No-one means "free" when they say free health care or whatever.
the US intelligence community, which is obviously biased against manning, admitted multiple times that her leaks did not end up getting anyone killed. she did not deserve prison and certainly didn't deserve the extended periods of solitary confinement (torture) she had to endure.
Oh, she definitely deserved prison, she just did a giant data dump and sent it off to get looked through, whether it endangered anyone's lives or not is secondary, and honestly was just luck as she didn't know what she was leaking at the time anyways.
Who cares? Maybe he was ok with torturing enemy combatants and not spying willy nilly on all Americans? Maybe he didn't get access to anything juicy at the start of his career, or are we assuming the CIA just runs down a list of all their top secret illegal shit at the newcomers orientation?
Again, who cares? If it's fact, it's fact. This is like going after the current leaker because s/he is a registered Democrat. At some point you gotta accept that there'll be people of all political and social stripes working in government and all of them will have different tipping points over what constitutes wrong doing, regardless, if they're dropping facts the motive is irrelevant.
lol yeah Snowden is a traitor because he didn't infiltrate the CIA with the explicit intent of exposing their war crimes, but instead exposed the most widespread domestic surveillance program in history after becoming aware of it. that would have been totally possible too because the CIA is so incompetent that a 22 year old can walk in and penetrate the most monolithic intelligence agency on the planet. galaxy brain shit right here
Chelsea has been and continues to be tortured, the fact that she had to fight like hell for years to get HRT is only a part of the shit she has had to go through.
What happened during her imprisonment is awful and completely justified her early release.
If the information Snowden revealed wasn't game-changing, he wouldn't have to literally flee the country
Wat? Libertarians are for social safety nets now? Read his quote again. Jesus.
...Excuse me?
Thank you~
Oops. Pesky facts getting in the way of the narrative again.
You didn't say "problematic", you wrote "far-right". You know there's a serious difference between "problematic" and "far-right", yes? Even when he was a libertarian moron, there was no evidence of him being far-right, and there certainly is no evidence of him being far-right today.
Andrew Yang's UBI program involves explicitly giving up every other social safety net in the process. UBI comiung from libertarians is very much a thing and why many lefties have (understandably) a knee-jerk negative reaction to the concept because of people coming from it from that angle. You called me irrational- I don't understand how what I've written justifies that.
This is not even true. You can keep your current social safety nets, the freedom dovidend is an opt in system, and he is still for Medicare for all. Are you sure you are familiar with his proposed policy? Who are these UBI libertarians? I'm really curious where your information comes from because this doesn't line up with anything I'm familiar with. (This is a genuine question, I'm not trying to be snarky or anything!)
UBI with libertarians is largely about dismantling the existing social safety net and replacing it with a "universal" one that's just straight up worse. Examples of this here, here and here. You cannot keep your current social safety nets and get UBI under Yang's proposal, which completely negates the point of why you should be doing it - it's a handout to people who don't currently make large use out of existing social safety nets. I have read up on the damn policies as we've had this issue come up for years when it's been discussed here and the old place and it made me understand why it would get a negative reaction in some quarters, because of the reason it was being pushed by some on the opposite end of the spectrum.
