Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @cancivlib: Today, we filed an application for judicial review in federal court requesting an order quashing the Emergency Proclamation… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Governments claiming the authority to *freeze people's bank accounts* because they want to crush a protest movement is tyrannical and obscene. If you would oppose China or Russia doing it, you must oppose Canada doing it. Very glad @CanCivLib exists. https://t.co/wXBCLdtlbt — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Politics now ask you to define yourself by who you hate, rather than what you love. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

This possibility is frankly so terrible to me it is difficult to even contemplate. I still remember red scars on the streets of Sarajevo, the "Sarajevska ruža" remembering those killed by mortar fire. Kyiv is bigger than Sarajevo. Than Grozny. Than Fallujah. Just unthinkable. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jimsciutto Ironically, I was just writing that in any event, I hope you'll refrain from the cheap "Russian-sympathies" argumentation in the future, because it is beneath you, and that I wish you the best in the future. Cheers. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jimsciutto @APDiploWriter The "intelligence," if it ever existed, was wrong, and the Feb 16th invasion in fact did not happen. I'm glad for that not because it meant I was right and I can dunk on someone, but because war was avoided. But as events develop, I become more concerned: https://t.co/el20VWPKDH — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jimsciutto In case you care, I wasn't criticizing *the fact that it is covered,* I was criticizing the absence of skepticism in the whole "February 16th invasion." @APDiploWriter has shown many times you can still cover the news from the podium without being reduced to an instrument of war. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jimsciutto Yes Jim, it was very brave btw after the clip ends to attribute Russian sympathies as the root cause of any criticism of a total lack of displayed skepticism in repeating official claims. Persuasive and deeply professional. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth I'm glad Kiev wasn't captured on the 16th. Let's just agree to hope it isn't captured any other day this year, and move on. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth What you don't seem to appreciate is that I get I could be wrong in expressing skepticism. It risks public embarrassment, but when the entire media class's space for skepticism is filled instead with hot-cheeked panting, somebody needs to be the uncomfortable scold. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth As circumstances have evolved, so has my position on the likelihood of conflict, as seen below. Meanwhile, you're still acting like paratroopers took Kiev in 24-48 hours this past Wednesday, which, you know, didn't actually happen. https://t.co/el20VWPKDH — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth My objection, from the beginning, has been that the "Feb 16th invasion" narrative didn't receive scrutiny equal to the gravity of the claim, and that was aggravated by outlets hyping it with an almost erotic sense of longing. That framing made conflict more likely, not less. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth You either don't know what a false flag is or you don't care. There are more and more examples pouring in by the day that could be (and even look like) false flag efforts, but your kindergarten is not one. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth Really? Which part is wrong? Was there an invasion on the 16th that the NYT failed to report? Are you back to believing the kindergarten shelling was a precision strike (on the wrong side of the border), rather than one of the literally thousands of shells that have struck civs? — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth @Krasina15c I'm not saying there aren't efforts to create a pretext. I'm saying what you raised is not an example of that. To be honest, it's not clear to me anymore exactly what it is you're trying to argue at all. You complain about tone when you *opened* with hostility. Good night. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth @Krasina15c You're moving the goalposts. Again. None of the above is related to the kindergarten you started this with. You've already ceded points 2) and 3) above. Point 1) is very easily confirmed by recognizing the OSCE has *years* of records confirming awful shelling events like today. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@Krasina15c @nicoleperlroth I appreciate the gesture, but I don't think she's actually objecting in good faith here. It's just a posture for the crowd. Cheers. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Harassing people over small political donations does not pass the public interest test. Did a ghoulish corporation or nefarious billionaire funnel $1,000,000 to protestors? Sure, expose them. But chasing down grandma over her pocket money is a reprehensible violation of privacy. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth 1) Per the OSCE daily reports you seem uninterested in, mortar strikes on civ areas are not a new problem. 2) A mortar strike in *Kyiv-held* territory is obviously not a *RU* false flag. 3) There was no invasion on Feb 16. I think we're done here. Good luck in the future. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Context: https://t.co/09hSNrFgmd — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Another unequivocal claim by Biden that the question of war has been decided. I've been a huge skeptic, and I very much hope he's wrong, but he's putting generational credibility on the line in a way that worries even me. If he's right, stonewalling Minsk II is hard to justify. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @rj_gallagher: New: I wrote about the terrifying rise of "zero click" hacks - a method of breaking into a smartphone or computer even if… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

psst psssst *whispers* bernie would've won — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

https://t.co/UBZGH9swe8 — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

some days it feels like the future of social media is every word you type being autocorrected by ronald mcdonald — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@nicoleperlroth There was a time when you were better than this. https://t.co/Ehmk22sOBo — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Well, I guess now we know where the student debt relief funds went. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @ebruenig: lol edward snowden remembers the time everyone got mad at me on mother's day — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"Gas prices are coming off their seventh straight weekly advance." https://t.co/TbIg9gMBNq — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @IlhanMN: I fail to see why any journalist felt the need to report on a shop owner making such a insignificant donation rather than to g… — PolitiTweet.org