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Remember Edward Snowden? (Original Post) True Dough Mar 2022 OP
I would love to hear opinion of Putin. He know quite well what happens when walkingman Mar 2022 #1
... ruet Mar 2022 #2
Well, I took Max Boot at face value True Dough Mar 2022 #3
"Probably "fuck. I'm stuck in this country"" Cha Mar 2022 #5
I appreciate that gratuitous Mar 2022 #8
He can admit being wrong and speak out for what's right, he's not ... he's quiet and the excuse uponit7771 Mar 2022 #27
He also may feel his credibility is shot gratuitous Mar 2022 #28
Ty for posting questionseverything Mar 2022 #9
Better a "concern troll" than a Cha Mar 2022 #13
Why would the Russians mistreat a valuable asset like Snowden? paleotn Mar 2022 #18
Good, you got Putrid wrong ... you staying or you goin? tia uponit7771 Mar 2022 #26
Same with putin's pal actor Steve Sagal.. I wonder if he is on the front committing war crimes..nt mitch96 Mar 2022 #4
Ha. Is American, Edward S worried that he'd be expelled from RU & returned to the US? Budi Mar 2022 #6
He was always a Putin Troll with the same Putin, Trump agenda JI7 Mar 2022 #7
THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 LenaBaby61 Mar 2022 #12
The irony. betsuni Mar 2022 #10
Yea was gonna say: The warrior for democracy, him?!1 UTUSN Mar 2022 #11
And "Transparency". Cha Mar 2022 #14
Fuck snowduhn we can do it Mar 2022 #15
The traitor has made statements about it. He "doubted the veracity" of invasion reports. oldsoftie Mar 2022 #16
So regurgitating Vlad's line? Cha Mar 2022 #25
That is a coincidence.. TexasTowelie Mar 2022 #17
I've been thinking about Snowden too. Googled him to refresh my memory of why I think he's an idiot, betsuni Mar 2022 #24
Snowden's a one trick pony. paleotn Mar 2022 #19
He is most likely in a small dacha in northern Siberia on orders by putler and spending madinmaryland Mar 2022 #20
K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker Mar 2022 #21
Snowden is the typical alt-right/alt-left bro radius777 Mar 2022 #22
Putin has clamped down on speech Warpy Mar 2022 #23
Cool genxlib Mar 2022 #29
Putin's Hollywood pals - the stars who snuggled up to the Russian dictator kskiska Mar 2022 #30

walkingman

(7,672 posts)
1. I would love to hear opinion of Putin. He know quite well what happens when
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 05:48 PM
Mar 2022

you tell government secrets. Legal or illegal make no difference to the powers that be.

True Dough

(17,339 posts)
3. Well, I took Max Boot at face value
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 05:52 PM
Mar 2022

And I appreciate you supplying that Tweet. Still no fan of Snowden, however.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. I appreciate that
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 06:07 PM
Mar 2022

I don't wish any harm to Snowden (or 'most anyone), and I'm glad he's all right, apparently. It's refreshing to read someone say "I called it wrong."

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)
27. He can admit being wrong and speak out for what's right, he's not ... he's quiet and the excuse
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:25 PM
Mar 2022

... of he got it wrong so I'll shut up on the wrong Putrid is doing is just that punk-assery

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
28. He also may feel his credibility is shot
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:41 PM
Mar 2022

I can't fault him for shutting up and letting others comment on the situation. I can't say that I'd give too much credence to anything he has to say, even if I agreed with him.

Cha

(297,818 posts)
13. Better a "concern troll" than a
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 06:37 PM
Mar 2022

Vlad Putin troll, Snowden. So No thoughts then on Putin Waging War Crimes And Slaughtering Innocent Children, Women, and Men in Ukraine?

💙💛

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
6. Ha. Is American, Edward S worried that he'd be expelled from RU & returned to the US?
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 06:04 PM
Mar 2022

Careful what you say!

oldsoftie

(12,633 posts)
16. The traitor has made statements about it. He "doubted the veracity" of invasion reports.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:24 PM
Mar 2022

I guess he's quieted down a bit since he knows he's full of shit anyway. And big daddy Vlad won't let him get too far out of line or he'll just toss him back over here

TexasTowelie

(112,521 posts)
17. That is a coincidence..
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:33 PM
Mar 2022

I thought about Snowden last night and searched to see if he had any comments about the war and came up with nothing.

betsuni

(25,710 posts)
24. I've been thinking about Snowden too. Googled him to refresh my memory of why I think he's an idiot,
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 09:07 PM
Mar 2022

typed in his name and didn't know what else, decided on the word "idiot" and there is was: "Edward Snowden is a Fucking Idiot."

In 2016 he said policy is irrelevant, laws are "letters on a page," and "There may never be a safer election in which to vote for a third option." What a fucking idiot. Tried to watch the documentary "Citizenfour" but couldn't take looking at and hearing that fucking idiot for more than a few minutes. I can usually watch anything but even I have limits.

paleotn

(17,989 posts)
19. Snowden's a one trick pony.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:36 PM
Mar 2022

Heaven forbid I state what I really thinking about that ____ for fear of the legion of Snowden devotees.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
20. He is most likely in a small dacha in northern Siberia on orders by putler and spending
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:38 PM
Mar 2022

His days pounding snow.

radius777

(3,635 posts)
22. Snowden is the typical alt-right/alt-left bro
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 08:04 PM
Mar 2022

just like Musk (that brave defender of the Kremlin's 'free speech') whose concept of freedom lacks any context, ethics or morality.

Warpy

(111,383 posts)
23. Putin has clamped down on speech
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 08:21 PM
Mar 2022

and Snowden knows if he says anything he's likely to be deported, right into the waiting arms of Interpol.

I don't expect him to say anything.

I wouldn't. I might do some monkey wrenching, but I'd be very quiet about it.

kskiska

(27,048 posts)
30. Putin's Hollywood pals - the stars who snuggled up to the Russian dictator
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:49 PM
Mar 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/07/putin-hollywood-pals-leonardo-dicaprio-steven-seagal-depardieu-rourke-stars-snuggled-up-russian-dictator

From Leonardo DiCaprio to Steven Seagal, Tinseltown’s biggest names were once happy to hang out with the invading president. Are they all now cringing? Not entirely

Mon 7 Mar 2022 03.00 EST
It was one of those surreal moments when light entertainment mugs history. Vladimir Putin crooned the song Blueberry Hill at a children’s charity benefit in St Petersburg in 2010, as a crowd of celebrities – including Sharon Stone, Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci – clapped along like they were in kindergarten. When the politician reeled off the opening line – “I found my thrill” – thoughts of the Georgian invasion or the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko didn’t seem to be urgently popping into anyone’s head. Knowing what we know now, the spectacle plays more like Dr Evil’s rendition of Just the Two of Us – but far less funny. In 2022, after Putin’s ruthless assault on Ukraine, the guests present that day must feel very naive, perhaps even ashamed – but they are not the only western celebs who cosied up to Putin. In defence of this bunch, they had been booked to appear by Samuel Aroutiounian, a New Yorker who specialised in bringing Hollywood talent to Russia and later said that he had been unaware Putin would be appearing.
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