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Edward Snowden is being hunted by the US. Are you for him or against him? If you're for him, then you'd have to stand against the US government. One could argu
by chrischen 11y ago
Edward Snowden is being hunted by the US. Are you for him or against him? If you're for him, then you'd have to stand against the US government.
One could argue that due to the spying and the prosecution of Edward Snowden, that the US gov't is also lost legitimacy.
- adventured 11y agoThat someone posts something negative about a given country, doesn't mean posting something negative about the US therefore refutes or otherwise alters it.
- hga 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- eggy 11y agoTrue, but you can stand up against the US government. Try that in China - anywhere. I live in Macau for 6 years, so I am a bit closer to the situation, and I have been to the mainland several times. One could also argue that there have been more than a dozen 'Edward Snowden's' in China that have been silenced, jailed or killed before they could get the word out. At least, whistle blowing does work in US some times when it counts, however, I believe there were some that were silenced in the US too. Interesting, when a tragedy occurs in the mainland, scaffold collapse, etc... a number is reported that most people say is half or a quarter of the true body count.