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Snowden is likely facing much more scrutiny in Russia, a totalitarian regime he became stranded in. He gave up a very comfortable life once and landed in a far
by paulryanrogers 5y ago
Snowden is likely facing much more scrutiny in Russia, a totalitarian regime he became stranded in.
He gave up a very comfortable life once and landed in a far much less comfortable one. Blaming him for not risking his life again, and now likely also his SO and child(ren), comes across as naive or at least reductive.
- car_analogy 5y ago> Blaming him [..] comes across as naive Calling this naive is itself naive. It's not naive - it's malicious. The author dislikes what Snowden has done in the US, so he is trying to demonize him by holding him to some saintly standard of self-sacrifice that almost no-one could live up to.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoI was trying to assume the most generous interpretation. A cynical take is that this person is a paid government shill.
- sam_lowry_ 5y ago> self-sacrifice that almost no-one could live up to Like Navalny?
- car_analogy 5y ago"almost" If the gist of the article was "Snowden is pretty brave, but there exist people even more courageous and self-sacrificing", I wouldn't have much issue with it.