Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
He got used by Greenwald. It sucks.
no one was a sub in that relationship. snowden & greenwald were doing a double dutchrudder.
He defected to russian intelligence, turning himself into an information weapon pointed at the existence of democracy and liberalism in the world.
He did.
Can't be used if you're a willing participant.
Yeah, Chelsea Manning deserves some thought here re: being used, but not Snowden.
There's a good case all of these people - Snowden, Greenwald, Assange, were their own flavors of bad actor collaborating together on bad things (note this article is from 2014) newrepublic.com/article/1162...
This is genuinely what happened with Roe v. Wade. The same people who sneered at me for saying it would be overturned if Clinton lost will now say “why are we rehashing things from 2016?” BC YOU HAVEN’T LEARNED ANYTHING FROM IT HAPPENING, FUCKS SAKE?!?
Gotta pay the rent on the Moscow apartment.
And avoid being drafted into meatgrinders on Ukraine front. After all he was given katsapian citizenship.
To be fair, maybe Snowden is on the front lines. They're running out of people.
They absolutely are not and Snowden has a pretty cushy position not to be tempted by a 4 mil roubles sign up payment.
we can hope 🫰🤘
It's certainly *possible* but I'd think he's been a valuable enough propaganda tool for them not to risk his life overmuch. Putin can be really stupid sometimes, though, so who knows?
i wholeheartedly believe they off'ed this guy years ago and just shit post from his account. Have we seen proof of life from this little wiener in the last few years??
Why would they off a guy that was on their payroll?
It depends if you think he's a useful idiot or a paid agent I guess.
There was news that he had taken russian citizenship some time ago. Maybe he was drafted, lol. He blocked me on Twitter when I pointed this possibility out to him. So I hope we'll see his last video, shot on FPV. 😏
he's also possibly even more racist than john fetterman, though still unclear if he's ever put his theory into practice & (almost) killed a black guy.
He voted twice for GW Bush. As did Greenwald.
Snowden is pleasing his hosts. He knows his hosts are pro Trump. In that there is his real message.
Libertarians are actually fine with right-wing dictatorships, here and aboard, part eleventy billion.
Snowden, Greenwald, Taibbi, Cenk, Klippenstein...
People still fuck with Klippenstein, but it’s very obvious that he is pretty racist and resents democrats for having a base that is black people.
I'm pretty sure I supported him but I genuinely can't remember that far back.
I'm old enough to remember when he spent the weeks leading up to the invasion of Ukraine swearing it would never happen, then didn't tweet for like 6 months.
See also: Assange.
He was a useful part of Vladimir’s propaganda orchestra, eh?
I'm pretty sure every dingle thing he does or says is logged in real time by the FSB. I hope he enjoys his Truman Show life in Moscow
Yep. This is what happens when celebrity culture infects politics. There's no difference between "he couldn't be an abuser because his movies are so good" and "he must be a progressive because he was right about that one thing 11 years ago."
The whole Snowden affair was an attack on Obama and deflection from Russian interference and technocrats bad acts.
he should have stayed in hawaii with his girlfriend and his NSA contractor job because he didn't do anything useful, started seeing how shit his takes were around 2014
Had a tech security guy explain what Snowden actually revealed when it happened and even as angrier at the world as I was back then as I am now I was like “Oh. That’s it?”
i most have been lucky because i was not aware of him much during the biden era
newrepublic.com/article/1162...
My proudest block on X.
It’s possible for someone who got famous for doing 100% the right thing at one time to turn out to suck in many other ways. See also: Assange.
He didn't do a damn thing right. He exposed coalition translators and mail clerks who worked with the US, allowing them to be kidnapped and tortured to death by fundamentalists and Iranian intel types. He was always an evil dude.
American leaders who made big inspiring speeches about the constitution and then violated it and made sure there was no safe way to blow the whistle are responsible for that. Sooner or later someone inspired by their speeches was bound to do something about their hypocrisy.
Read the post at the top here. He was inspire by a petty office grievance stemming from his mediocrity, not the high-minded principles his Russian handlers told him to reference as a post-facto justification for his espionage.
CIA damage control PR bullshit. And as far as getting innocent Afghans and Iraqis killed out of reckless disregard, the US government and its loyalists have no business accusing anyone of something they did more of than anyone else.
what
The CIA exists to defend the people of the united states from countries and groups that are enemies of the united states because of things the CIA did.
OK... I'm going to leave now. I should introduce you to the guy at the farmer's market who spends every Sunday yelling about how LBJ is still alive and controlling the weather, I think you guys would get along!
Jon Oliver is right about so much I’m always surprised he was so wrong about this one.