Not Pynchon. Goes out to a select couple--three. On the media.

[Mark Thibodeau]

I think maybe we should all give Snowden a pass for the moment, his
particular circumstances being what they are.

As for the other two, Greenvalt is beyond parody at this point, and
Taibbi... who the Hell knows what happened there? His reporting on Libor
had the potential to collapse global economic structures and force them to
be rebuilt from the ground up in a more transparent and democratic fashion.
When that didn't happen - in fact, when NOTHING happened - I think it
soured him forever to the notion that things are fixable without a hard
collapse, so he took the Black Pill of accelerationism and now he's just
holding on tight, hoping he'll be one of those who gets to see what the
other side of Armageddon looks like.

Jerky

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 8:03 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I too admire Snowden. NEVER did i think him a Russian agent or
> apologist, albeit some did, maybe this guy I quote, dunno...Snowden's
> twitter feed, to take up Morris's unknownness, his public and considered
> remarks, was almost entirely about
> loss of privacy by government surveillance and actions, including one
> positive one about another city close to me, Baltimore, which lost a
> civil liberties case and had to pay big.
>
> His last few tweets touched on the growing situation between Russia and
> Ukraine including one where he posted a Russian warning about attacks BUT
> this is the poignant one as he looked at what he heard:
>
>
> https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1494818918086631425?s=20&t=FYB_Ywv91IAiG3y_Fhx6iw
>
> He did not comment on this again nor since.
>
> I am believing that he can not believe the country, its leader, where he
> had to flee, not his first choice as a place to live as Morris sez, could
> do what it has done.
> I am projecting that world view of his, but who knows.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 7:26 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I haven’t kept tabs on Snowden, so I don’t have a clue what he’s been
> > doing since his exile to Russia.  But I think we should all acknowledge
> > that he’s in no position to speak out against pretty much the only place
> he
> > could go to escape a forever deep and dark solitary US imprisonment.  I
> > consider him a hero for what he did to earn his pariahood.  Given a
> choice,
> > I am sure his voice would be loud and clear for whatever he saw as
> > justice.  He didn’t choose his present hosts.  They were his only option.
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 6:28 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> <https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert>
> >> Eric Boehlert
> >> @EricBoehlert
> >> <https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert>
> >> ·
> >> 6h <https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/1497437612549840898>
> >> for those keeping score: Snowden hasn’t tweeted in three days, Taibbi
> >> says it never occurred to him Russia would Ukraine, and Greenwald says
> >> it’s all too complicated to debate on social media
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> >>
> >
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