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Newsmax reports that according to according to KRC Research about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him. However 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have a positive opinion of Snowden which contrasts sharply with older age cohorts. Among those aged 35-44, some 34 percent have positive attitudes toward him. For the 45-54 age cohort, the figure is 28 percent, and it drops to 26 percent among Americans over age 55, U.S. News reported. Americans overall say by plurality that Snowden has done “more to hurt” U.S. national security (43 percent) than help it (20 percent). A similar breakdown was seen with views on whether Snowden helped or hurt efforts to combat terrorism, though the numbers flip on whether his actions will lead to greater privacy protections. “The broad support for Edward Snowden among Millennials around the world should be a message to democratic countries that change is coming,” says Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “They are a generation of digital natives who don’t want government agencies tracking them online or collecting data about their phone calls.” Opinions of millennials are particularly significant in light of January 2015 findings by the U.S. Census Bureau that they are projected to surpass the baby-boom generation as the United States’ largest living generation this year.
(Score: -1, Troll) by ncc74656 on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:01PM
"Will?" That implies that the precious little special snowflakes already aren't.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by nitehawk214 on Thursday April 23 2015, @09:07PM
Not at all... they can be both. :)
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @01:18AM
Wow. I love the anti-millenialism here.
I was never told I was a special little snowflake. After I got out of school, I was basically told that I was a useless weight on society despite working my ass off and constantly finding ways to be productive and employed. By older generations, which accuse my ilk of being entitled brats because we want to work and make the world a better place.
Which oddly, the older generation told us in no uncertain terms that if we work our asses off, get degrees, and go into the world to work, we would be able to do provide for ourselves. I don't want shit handed to me that I don't deserve; I want work to mean something. For many of us, it's true, but only the entirely blind would argue that it's not a myth that hard work = success. And incidentally, you fine older folks created a lovely system of grade inflation with this myth wherein everyone and their cousin has to (if they weren't born into money) get student loans and struggle to pay them off for the next thirty years in a protracted, .1% centric economy.
What really pisses me off is "older generations" (and other kool-aid drinkers) telling me that "deal with it, this is the way the world is" when they made it that way. Police state, corporations with obscene amounts of power, unmitigated and perpetual environmental disaster... pick your issue. While you were all off being "productive" "patriotic" "true Americans," you caused a lot of damage. And yes, now I'm going to have to clean your shit up because you consider yourself finished.
Don't get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for my elders. I just don't have respect for people that can't take responsibility for what they've created. There are great things that past generations have done - insane, unparalleled greatness (the Enlightenment/railroads/WWII/space race/winning the Cold War) - but that doesn't mean you made no mistakes or that you don't have to own up to it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday April 24 2015, @02:36AM
This whole story is massive generational flamebait, among other things. Entitled twits come in all ages. The previous generation always thinks the next one is going to Hell. There used to be this talk that Baby Boomers were the selfish "Me" generation. Don't hear that so much any more now that their elders, the Silent Generation, no longer control the levers of power.
Now we're routinely treated to Baby Boomer crap. They constantly ask why we can't equal their achievements, as if we haven't accomplished anything, and as if there was just as much opportunity as they had. We have accomplished much, and that in spite of less opportunity. Middle class pay has been stagnant or declining since the 1970s, and it's largely their fault! Despite all their anti-government talk, they couldn't be bothered to rein in government whenever it was abused by private interests to steal from the public. What were they doing? Getting stoned and zonked at the ultimate hedonistic expression of slackdom, Woodstock. It was all they could do to shut the Vietnam War down. It should have ended sooner. Not saying we're doing much better, but at least we tried Occupy Wall Street. They have trouble understanding what we have accomplished. The Internet is huge, but they can't see past the sharing it enabled, tarring that as piracy. I rate the Internet a much more significant accomplishment than the moon landing. The moon landings, impressive though they were, are at heart accomplishment theater, undertaken to show up the Commies. It was a big bonanza for science, but ultimately it failed to entrench a scientific mindset in the public, who today continue to view science as a sometimes useful tool, and often as lies and propaganda of liberals, and as anti-religion.
Besides which, the whole idea of a baby boom was really dumb. Historically, overpopulation has been a much bigger and more common problem than underpopulation. So they were the population boom that got to fill the empty spaces created by war, and now some of them wonder why we can't do the same, as if there's still lots of empty space to fill. There isn't. It's very likely that not only will resources not increase, they won't even hold steady. In the near future there could well be be less of everything, when Climate Change begins to bite.
(Score: 1) by ncc74656 on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:04PM