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I absolutely agree that's what's motivating the US, but it's interesting the future they're shepherding society towards via their encouragements and punishments

I absolutely agree that's what's motivating the US, but it's interesting the future they're shepherding society towards via their encouragements and punishments: - Assange: whistleblowers, journalists that embarrass the government will be pursued to the ends of the earth - Snowden: whistleblowers will not be forgiven and will be abandoned without a home country - Sacklers: will be protected from prosecution beyond a large fine, albeit smaller than the profits made from the activity that brought the fine - Wall Street: government funding provided as a bailout after failure due to poor business decisions and no one held accountable or prosecuted. Absolutely demonstrated where 'the power' exists, and there's no overlap with 'for the people'.

lazide 5y ago
If you go back into the history books, I think it’s wishful thinking that it was ever any other way - plus or minus some ebbs or flows over the years. COINTELPRO and J. Edgar Hoovers blackmailing of government officials and other shenanigans being a pretty solid recent examples that just so happened to be exposed, but especially when you look at how few media outlets were willing to publish the COINTELPRO documents along with how many of the packets just ‘disappeared’ in the mail, it’s clear we just got lucky to know about these. For every one of them that gets out, I’m sure there are 3-5 or more that get caught and stopped.