• CovfefeKills@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Celebrating the singular person most responsible for Trump initially taking power is always weird to see because it is usually by people who you’d presume are Anti-Trump-Putin-Netanyah. I guess if you don’t read further into it other than “he leaked us gubberment secrets cool” he is a cool guy.

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          33 minutes ago

          No, none of that is correct. He exposed the government metadata collection program to the Gaurdian, then the Obama administration revoked his passport while he was changing flights in Russia and he was forced to seek asylum there. There’s no evidence that he gave the Russians any classified materials, and he’s long maintained that the only materials took were shared wirh the Gaurdian.

          In fact, your own Wikipedia article that you just shared mentions Snowden exactly once, in a footnote, and it links to an article in which Snowden criticizes Wikileaks for being careless in how it handled the DNC email leaks. The idea that Snowden helped Russia hack the 2016 election is ahistorical nonsense based on recycled intelligence community lies that were adopted by liberals who don’t know the difference between Snowden and Assange.

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            9 minutes ago

            Ooo great bullshit but I never said anything about hacked I said influence and power then linked to an article about russia’s influence and power.

            If you have to make shit up to engage just fuck off seriously what is the point?