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When Snowden, is my question. RFK put a lot of words into "if I am in charge that'll be my first thing". Yeah, he's not the president but he's also not nobody a

by vvpan 2y ago

When Snowden, is my question. RFK put a lot of words into "if I am in charge that'll be my first thing". Yeah, he's not the president but he's also not nobody anymore.

bbor 2y ago
NGL it would be pretty funny if Snowden gets to return to the west but we hadn't actually fixed any of the stuff he brought forward in the meantime. Not sure what I would do in his shoes... I guess a pardon is pretty impossible for future presidents to get around, TBF
- andirk 2y ago
  The courage a lot of these whistleblowers have shown is admirable. How the American public outrages, though: Facebook has targeted ads. How they don't outrage: their government is illegally tracking their own citizens' movements and communications including overseas. Not going to say Ulbricht is a hero like some of the others, but he trail blazed like none before him! And he deserves his freedom years ago.
mikrotikker 2y ago
I'd be worried about the Russians putting him in jail if the US pardoned him.
- sapiogram 2y ago
  I don't think Putin would want to taint his relationship with Trump on his first week on the White House.
  - Maxious 2y ago
    That doesn't mean that he would want to be seen to be a pushover https://thehill.com/policy/international/5098063-donald-trump-russia-panama-canal/ https://thehill.com/policy/international/5098063-donald-trum...
- toyg 2y ago
  Why? He did nothing to deserve punishment in Russia. If anything, if Snowden left, I think Putin would be relieved he doesn't have to treat a potential nuisance with utmost care anymore. At the moment he can't really disappear him and has to waste resources monitoring him.
  - mikrotikker 2y ago
    Your mistake is thinking that you need to deserve it to be punished in Russia
mimerme 2y ago
private intelligence still has a few ways to go before whistleblowers don't have all their rights stripped by the state
dylan604 2y ago
For someone that likes to take top secret documents and share them with unauthorized people, Snowden sounds perfect for this guy to pardon
Cornbilly 2y ago
Oh that’s going to be good if it happens. Everyone will celebrate Trump’s good deed while he funnels more government money to companies like Palantir to do things similar to PRISM.
toyg 2y ago
The right gets to power and the first thing it does is to pardon its friends and allies. The left goes into power and does basically nothing. And then we wonder why one side is winning.
- popcalc 2y ago
  The elite are winning. This isn't football.

by vvpan 2y ago

When Snowden, is my question. RFK put a lot of words into "if I am in charge that'll be my first thing". Yeah, he's not the president but he's also not nobody anymore.

bbor 2y ago

NGL it would be pretty funny if Snowden gets to return to the west but we hadn't actually fixed any of the stuff he brought forward in the meantime. Not sure what I would do in his shoes... I guess a pardon is pretty impossible for future presidents to get around, TBF

andirk 2y ago
The courage a lot of these whistleblowers have shown is admirable. How the American public outrages, though: Facebook has targeted ads. How they don't outrage: their government is illegally tracking their own citizens' movements and communications including overseas. Not going to say Ulbricht is a hero like some of the others, but he trail blazed like none before him! And he deserves his freedom years ago.

mikrotikker 2y ago

I'd be worried about the Russians putting him in jail if the US pardoned him.

sapiogram 2y ago
I don't think Putin would want to taint his relationship with Trump on his first week on the White House.
- Maxious 2y ago
  That doesn't mean that he would want to be seen to be a pushover https://thehill.com/policy/international/5098063-donald-trump-russia-panama-canal/ https://thehill.com/policy/international/5098063-donald-trum...
toyg 2y ago
Why? He did nothing to deserve punishment in Russia. If anything, if Snowden left, I think Putin would be relieved he doesn't have to treat a potential nuisance with utmost care anymore. At the moment he can't really disappear him and has to waste resources monitoring him.
- mikrotikker 2y ago
  Your mistake is thinking that you need to deserve it to be punished in Russia

mimerme 2y ago

private intelligence still has a few ways to go before whistleblowers don't have all their rights stripped by the state

dylan604 2y ago

For someone that likes to take top secret documents and share them with unauthorized people, Snowden sounds perfect for this guy to pardon

Cornbilly 2y ago

Oh that’s going to be good if it happens. Everyone will celebrate Trump’s good deed while he funnels more government money to companies like Palantir to do things similar to PRISM.

toyg 2y ago

The right gets to power and the first thing it does is to pardon its friends and allies. The left goes into power and does basically nothing. And then we wonder why one side is winning.

popcalc 2y ago
The elite are winning. This isn't football.