• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    It annoys me to no end that real-life whistleblowers end up in jail, have to emmigrate or die under mysterious circumstances, but fictional whistleblowers are cheered on in theatres and novels.

    It’s like America has a severe case of cognitive dissonance that the world sees, but is happy to stay that way no matter the cost.

    • 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.