I’ve noticed it seems to polarize people. A lot of the best (and worst) people I deal with are ex-military or convicts. Wake or break type deal, they seem to come out hardened and inspired to resist or broken enough to fit the mold perfectly. Sorry about your service.
What makes you think they feel that? I suggest more direct interaction with your community, have not yet encountered that take offline
Nah, fuck money. Worth it to expose grave enough injustice or keep a family out of the camps for sure though. You see about the ICE employee roster getting leaked yesterday?
I think we’ve just got a significant gap in perspective man. There’s plenty of things in my life worth that risk and more, I hope you find some too. Good luck out there.
“If you fear dying, you’re already dead”
He gave up the entire life he’d built and is still experiencing some pretty severe consequences for revealing some pretty dark government secrets. I misquoted moron as idiot but don’t think either term belongs anywhere near that man or his actions. Noble is the best fit I’ve got, and I like to imagine that in a position to make that kind of impact I too would be willing to make those kinds of sacrifices
If you’re calling the heroic Mr. Snowden an idiot you can meet me behind the waffle house at 4pm for your ass kicking
Your bastard uncle was rewarded with a cool boat and chill retirement for holding the rest of us at gunpoint. Fuck him.
~1600 “unaccounted for” when they shut down the one in Florida.
The most money I have even seen is 18k, and in my community I’m the wealthy philanthropist people come to when their shit breaks down. Can you see how owning a home and having one million dollars handy might be perceived as unimaginable wealth from here? Or how your retirement income calculations might sound to someone who will never retire?
Land of the Fee, Home of the Slave
In general I’m seeing a whole lot of “oh no, there’s nazis now, at least I still have a job/food stamps/papers/whatever”
“This is good, actually” is a wild take I’ve only seen from the edgiest of teens, and even that not since the doorkicking started