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The American government tarnished itself, Snowden just revealed it to us all (at great personal sacrifice). I consider him a patriot.


> (at great personal sacrifice)

Yes all he had to gain was international celebrity.


Again, I disagree.

He exposed what basically any G20 nation does and lives pretty damn well by virtue of doing the bidding of a foreign government that seeks to undermine democracy in the world.

Somehow that makes him a patriot.


The notion that he gave up his highly paid government contractor job in sunny Hawaii in favour of becoming an international fugitive, for personal gain, is clearly nonsense. You really think an apartment in Moscow is worth all that?




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