[caskstrength]

The guy was regurgitating Russian propaganda talking points on twitter just days before the invasion and then accepted Russian citizenship after the fact. At this point considering him a Russian asset seems reasonable IMO.

[bjourne]

Isn't the big threat the US government's illegal and omnipresent spying on its own and other countries citizens, rather than what Snowden been up to lately?

[lern_too_spel]

As the article you're commenting on makes clear, there is no illegal and omnipresent spying on its own from Snowden's documents. The phone metadata collection program was the only possibly illegal US program in the leaks, and that was shut down years ago.

[caskstrength]

I'm Ukrainian, so possible Russian assets like Snowden and Greenwald, or (senile) useful idiots like Chomsky and Waters are obviously much bigger threat to me than some dude in Maryland reading my emails.

[bjourne]

Can you explain how?

[caskstrength]

Sure. Ukraine at the moment is completely dependent on its allies to support the war effort. Without their help Ukraine wouldn't hold on for long.

Recent Russian disinformation campaigns seem to be concentrated on eroding public support for Ukraine in western countries through various means and they had some success among the whole Greenwald-Taibbi-Snowden-Peterson crowd specifically and MAGA-people in general. Losing US support would put Ukraine in dire straits since I'm not sure EU/UK can provide all necessary equipment and ammunition by themselves.

[bjourne]

So let me get this straight. Since you are Ukrainian, Chomsky, Snowden, Greenwald, and others are threatening you by expressing views on the Ukraine war that diverge from the mainstream? Doesn't that sound awfully similar to George W Bush who claimed that everyone who isn't with us (the US) in the "war on terror" is against us?

[caskstrength]

You asked how I'm _threatened_ by those people trying to shape the narrative and I explained. Not sure what does whataboutims about George Bush have to do with it.

[ifyoubuildit]

Does reading taibbi or thinking the snowden revelations were a good thing make someone a MAGA person? Is Taibbi running Russian disinformation campaigns?

I don't fault you for your position one bit, but this stuff seems a little conspiratorial to me. And what Peterson are you talking about?

[caskstrength]

> Does reading taibbi or thinking the snowden revelations were a good thing make someone a MAGA person?

I never said that. In fact I consider Snowden's revelations a good thing and I'm not a "MAGA person".

> Is Taibbi running Russian disinformation campaigns?

Never said that either.

> I don't fault you for your position one bit, but this stuff seems a little conspiratorial to me.

Yes, that would indeed sound a little conspiratorial.