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What happened to the Snowden archive

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  1. pluc · · focus · HN ↗
    Eh, the outrage never really materialized into anything worth continuing the leaks. Look at the Epstein files. "They" can just wait it out.
    1. harry8 · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. joe_the_user · · focus · HN ↗
        This more than some cia/mossad front of blackmailing the powerful with horrific acts done to children.

        IDK, the CIA/mossad pedophile part seems significant.

        I don't think ordinary people upset at young girls being exploited for the purpose of blackmailing people are being 'naive' or something. Sure, it all pales in comparison to genocide X foreign land but people getting riled by that stuff too.

        1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
          Quite a large amount of people have little empathy. Someone getting blown up somewhere else is a them problem. "I've never been blown up, they must have done something wrong to deserve it (I have heard things like this come out of peoples mouths)". Now, quite often those same people with little empathy have their own children therefore have an empathetic connection to the theoretical victim allowing them to contemplate the terror those children experienced. This allows the situation to be much more viceral to them. Also, pedophila is an act that is highly stimtized in most places in the world so the social shame and disgust phenomenon also applies.
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