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Umm, he did address this on his Twitter. > I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, y

Umm, he did address this on his Twitter. > I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong. He admitted that he was wrong, and did the responsible thing which is not speculating anymore about things he does not understand.

Barrin92 4y ago
no offense but that's exactly what I would write as well if Russian officials told me that one bad tweet is going to get me on a plane to the US in exchange for some spies, which I guarantee you is exactly the situation he is in. Given that he's stopped tweeting altogether after the start of the war despite usually posting daily I'm supposed to think he doesn't have opinions on anything any more out of his own volition? Odd coincidence
scottdomes 4y ago
dragonwriter 4y ago
...he posted that 3 days after the invasion, 6 days after his previous tweet, and hasn't posted (including likes or RTs) since though he was posting multiple tweets a day on a wide variety of topics up until stopping 3 days before the invasion. I mean, unless he had a much broader epiphany and you mean literally everything when you say “things he does not understand”, the tweet you reference, and your (reasonable) characterization of it's overt message read in isolation, doesn't really explain his actual behavior change. EDIT: It's also worth noting that his next to last tweet, on the last day he tweeted before the six-day pause, was a vague (generally taken as negative) post apparently about Putin’s speech the same day: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1495848959335706630?t=QSIW5PC46joZOSdtSct6BQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1495848959335706630?t=QSI...
- hndamien 4y ago
  Here is the speech which has been censored from Youtube. https://rumble.com/vw0nzv-vladimir-putins-speech-on-ukraine-and-us-foreign-policynato-feb-242022-subt.html https://rumble.com/vw0nzv-vladimir-putins-speech-on-ukraine-...
- skybrian 4y ago
  Isn't Twitter banned and blocked in Russia currently?
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  - robbedpeter 4y ago
    Yeah, Edward Snowden was foiled by the Russian state firewall. I think it's likely he had the epiphany that he'd be a pointed lesson in not mouthing off about Putin while you're exiled in Russia, especially with his wife and kid there.
microtherion 4y ago
This is, of course, exactly what somebody who IS suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time they tweet would write, so it's difficult to tell what his actual situation is.

Barrin92 4y ago

no offense but that's exactly what I would write as well if Russian officials told me that one bad tweet is going to get me on a plane to the US in exchange for some spies, which I guarantee you is exactly the situation he is in. Given that he's stopped tweeting altogether after the start of the war despite usually posting daily I'm supposed to think he doesn't have opinions on anything any more out of his own volition? Odd coincidence

scottdomes 4y ago

dragonwriter 4y ago

...he posted that 3 days after the invasion, 6 days after his previous tweet, and hasn't posted (including likes or RTs) since though he was posting multiple tweets a day on a wide variety of topics up until stopping 3 days before the invasion. I mean, unless he had a much broader epiphany and you mean literally everything when you say “things he does not understand”, the tweet you reference, and your (reasonable) characterization of it's overt message read in isolation, doesn't really explain his actual behavior change. EDIT: It's also worth noting that his next to last tweet, on the last day he tweeted before the six-day pause, was a vague (generally taken as negative) post apparently about Putin’s speech the same day: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1495848959335706630?t=QSIW5PC46joZOSdtSct6BQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1495848959335706630?t=QSI...

hndamien 4y ago
Here is the speech which has been censored from Youtube. https://rumble.com/vw0nzv-vladimir-putins-speech-on-ukraine-and-us-foreign-policynato-feb-242022-subt.html https://rumble.com/vw0nzv-vladimir-putins-speech-on-ukraine-...
skybrian 4y ago
Isn't Twitter banned and blocked in Russia currently?
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- robbedpeter 4y ago
  Yeah, Edward Snowden was foiled by the Russian state firewall. I think it's likely he had the epiphany that he'd be a pointed lesson in not mouthing off about Putin while you're exiled in Russia, especially with his wife and kid there.

microtherion 4y ago

This is, of course, exactly what somebody who IS suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time they tweet would write, so it's difficult to tell what his actual situation is.