prettybunnys ,

It wasn’t just US assets that were uncovered in the leak.

The Chinese were able to decrypt much of it causing nations other than the USA to need to evacuate personnel for safety reasons.

Your feelings are one thing, seeing the USA with egg on its face always gets folks happy, rah rah USA bad we get it. That doesn’t change what happened.

Snowden isn’t the villain he is made out to be by the USA but goddamn did he do a stupid thing in a dumb way and isn’t the hero folks who like to see the USA fail make him out to be.

Chances are people in your country who work to keep you safe had their lives put at risk because of how he leaked what he leaked. Good still came out of it. It can be both.

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