• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Real life whistleblowers don’t have a full team of Hollywood PR professionals boosting their image.

    The closest we came to a real whistleblower celebrity was Edward Snowden. And when he left Hong Kong for Russia, all the liberals who thought he was a based freedom fighting chad decided oops nah, Big Russia Foreign Agent disregard everything about that PRISM shit.

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      9 months ago

      I still suspect that change in attitude toward him was at least partially manufactured. The rich absolutely did not want the public lionizing him.