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Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

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Re: Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

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Post by dllthomas »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #230
dllthomas wrote: post #229

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Congress gets to decide salary for the next congress .

Limiting it to the next congress doesn’t help when they’re career politicians and just get re-elected.

I mean... it helps, because they can't simply pocket the treasury outright. There is presumably some limit where the voters wouldn't stand for it.

The fact that incumbents are generally reelected does certainly weaken the mechanism.

Re: Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

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Post by seppin »

seppin wrote: post #186
whateveracct wrote: post #110

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HN contrarians don't wanna hear that - they routinely gobble up the narrative that the US is less free than Russia and other autocracies.

I think it's more than Snowden is living the dream of every underappreciated IT worker and to speak against him is to speak against that dream, too.

The more I interact on this website, the more i'm convinced this is exactly it. Snowden represents every IT support monkey disrespected by their org, most of whom check Hacker News daily.

I fully agree IT in every industry deserves more respect, but Snowden is thoroughly enjoying his new found celebrity post-defection. To deny this is part of his motivation is to be blind.

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