It's good TV!

I saw someone being interviewed who didn’t know who hilter was. Apparently genuine.

There was a bit that Conan O'Brian used to do back when he had a late-night show. He'd go out and do Man-On-The-Street interviews in... Times Square, I think? Can't remember if he was LA or NY. But he'd ask some absurdly complex question and get this excellently reasoned and well-thought out answer from randos. And then he'd ask what they did for a living. It was inevitably some NASA engineer or finance professional or other well-educated individual. And they were all just... in the crowd. Because in a city as big as that, of course you're going to get this extremely mixed bag.

On the flip side, there's Sailor Socialism, a podcaster and aspiring actress who baited an interview with an InfoWars reporter, in which she was dressed in a sailor fuku, then went viral talking about how she wanted universal health care and liked Bernie Sanders.

Interview twenty people and edit the content down to the one or two who make for good entertainment. It's a tried-and-true strategy.

Ah. The late Aldof Hilter. The failed fascist who turned into decent artist.

Of course, it was all her teacher's fault and not her being too cool for school to actually pay attention in class.

He has been largely forgotten. Recently we were talking about data collection with my slightly younger gf (21) when I mentioned him. Turns out she never even heard his name. It's not that she's stupid or does not care about privacy, he just hasn't been mentioned in mainstream media for over a decade, nobody makes reels about him on Instagram/tiktok. Tbh I haven seen him mentioned all that often on lemmy too.

With the rise of fascist parties worldwide, and especially here in the EU, and talks of AI, privacy seems to have taken a back seat in mainstream discourse.

No way the general populace is that stupid.

It isn't an issue of stupidity. Not like "Edward Snowden" is a name you can conjure up from first principles.

He was headline news back in 2008 and now he's not. Anyone who wasn't following national news nearly twenty years ago likely won't be familiar with him. No more than a Millennial is going to know who Daniel Ellsberg or Robert W. Jackson are.

The entire Wikileaks project has been more or less obliterated.

It has to be so. No way the general populace is that stupid.

Even if it wasn't Murica (they're that stupid), most GenZ or-whatever-the-tag-is was in diapers during the 2010s so yeah, there's a generation who hasn't heard (or cares) about him.

I have to belive that most of these quizzes where "reporter" walks around asking questions are fake or just show the stupidest answers.

Yeah. I take that pretty much as a given.

Don't forget Reddit! That has always been a skidmark-filled guilty pleasure.

ugh my wife wanted to show me something and it was on x. im like why aren't you using xcancel like we have discussed before. how do I do that. like I said before just add cancel after x. Im sure down the line she is going to show me something from x. sigh.

Like that Tom Hanks movie! I think it's called The Terminal

40 days but that's still quite some

It was revoked before he left China. https://apnews.com/general-news-587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584

That didn't stop China from ignoring his asylum request following his release of documentation of hacked Chinese systems and kicking him out of the country because whether you have a valid passport doesn't matter for geopolitical issues. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1259508/edward-snowden-us-government-has-been-hacking-hong-kong-and-china

Russia was under no obligation to keep Snowden instead of letting him continue to Ecuador. Putin just wanted to use him as a bargaining chip with the U.S., but the U.S. understood that all his documents were already public, so Putin hasn't been able to play that card well yet.

They'll probably give him some leeway since they'd rather have him living there as a fuck you to the USA and constant reminder of how fucked up the USA is as well.

No no, the thoughts intrude by way of bullets into the back of your head, before you jump comrade!

The US would probably like him dead so Russia will keep him alive

They're vassals to the empire. He wouldn't be safe there anyway

More valuable openly criticizing the US. He's American so it is "expected" for him to have Western values. The fact that he hides from the US, but lives in RU with issues is a political win for Putin.

Is the '/s' because you do in fact have instagram installed on your phone?

This is such a "phones bad" comment, but holy shit is it true. If you tell people why you don't have WhatsApp and instagram or whatnot, they just look at you like you are the idiot. Yeah they are evil, steal and sell my data and rot my brain but have you seen this bot posting ai videos of cats?

would be stupid for europe to continue a cozy relationship with the us at this point. The breakup has already started.