A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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I remember a few years ago John Oliver flew to Russia to interview him. He showed him a bunch of vox pop interviews of young people in America asking if they knew who Edward Snowden was and what he did, and almost all of them had no idea.
You could visibly see him die inside after watching it.
gen z is unlikely to know him, anyone older will.
Meh. I saw someone being interviewed who didn't know who hilter was. Apparently genuine. They even gave hints. When the interviewer told her who he is, she wasn't even shocked or just having a brain fart. She blamed it on her history teacher...
Why would Oliver do that to him
It's good TV!
No it's not
I think about him regularly. You know now would be a good time for europe to get him to a better place.
Would be stupid for him to fall for it. Now they give him a better place, next day they give him to the US. Not to mention the whole CIA thing. Russia or even better China are the only countries he can feel relatively safe.
I should read his book again.
It's kind of sad. He sacrificed his freedom to let us know about surveillance of the citizenry and we shrugged a little and accepted all the surveillance they could throw at us.
People dont care about their privacy one bit. They want their tiktok brain rot.
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?
Uninstall Instagram? Why I'd never!
/S
Is the '/s' because you do in fact have instagram installed on your phone?
Doesn't he live in Russia now? Probably not.
Suddenly you don't hear about P.Diddy as well
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All whistleblowers need our support
Is he active somewhere and posts so one can follow?
I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him, but I also think the public deserved to know what Snowden revealed. It's definitely the kind of thing the pardon power was created for, not for drug lords to bribe their way back into freedom.
The american public are just overworked sheep… the proof they did not deserve this info, is in that they got it and literally did nothing about it.
To this day poeple won't stop using Meta and Twitter and there are 29 extra reasons to never touch those platforms again
I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him
Because he exposed the state for being a massively illegal and corrupt pile of shit directly perpetrating crimes against not just the American public, but the world at large?
Like yeah, I understand why cartels kill informants, that doesn't make them justified in doing so.
Sounds ok except for living in Russia.
Edward Snowden is a permanent resident and naturalized citizen of Russia, living in Moscow with his wife and two sons. Granted citizenship by President Vladimir Putin in 2022, he remains in exile to avoid prosecution in the US under the Espionage Act. Snowden continues to criticize Russian policy while working in IT and presiding over the Freedom of the Press Foundation
the usa literally trapped him in russia while he was flying back to the us, by cancelling his passport. Also putin sees him as a useful propaganda tool as well.
Living in Russia and criticizing russian policy sounds like how those intrusive thoughts about jumping from windows get into your head...
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.